Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the day's races, the varsity heavyweights elected four-man Alexander Blake of Big Timber, Mont, captain for the 1995-96 season...
...scientists and tourists; its vast riches beckon others. The taiga, the word used to describe the region's enormous forests, in particular has captured the attention of both foreigners and Russians. Japan, Korea and the U.S. covet the rich forests of southern Siberia. The Russian government sees its timber as a quick source of cash to prop up an economy that continues to flounder. Fearful of an economic collapse that might once again bring to power a hostile, nuclear-armed totalitarian regime, the U.S. is trying to promote the responsible exploitation of the region's resources, in part through...
...River watershed while at the same time giving grants to study the feasibility of logging in the region. Moreover, critics point out that the U.S. has a less than thrilling record preserving its own forests. The U.S. has less than 5% of its ancient forests and suffers from a timber shortage; Russia has roughly 25% of its original forests intact...
...encapsulated by John Muir in Our National Parks when he wrote, ''Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as fountains of life.'' SHERI A. MCDONIEL Dubuque, Iowa aol: SAMcDoniel
...surprise anyone that the Republicans in Congress have just completed the most successful six months of fund raising in their history, having thrilled their corporate friends with all their talk about melting down government, dismantling the welfare state and rinsing regulations out of everything from cable TV to salvage timber. More striking than the millions they have raised are the tactics they have been using to get them. As though the natural urge of money to follow power were not enough, the G.O.P. leaders have set about stiffening the rules of influence peddling. The goal is not only to keep...