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Editorial

Act now or forever hold your peace

DAVID CUTLER publisher

The long awaited Timber Summit is behind us. find a solution. That's not encouraging for us. It was compelling political theatre as environmen- Secretary of the Interior Bruce BabbiU, fbr exantalists emotionally tried 0o stop tree cutting. ple, is a longtims industry foe and has a staff Industry stated our case for responsible forest heavily weighted to the environmenal cause. It is management. Timb€r families related their ragic believed tbis is true rross the board in other govhuman stories of hunger, joblessness and related ernment d@artments. social problems caused by cutbacks in logging our Industry is naive if it thinks politics will be susNational Forests. Both sides felt better after pended and an objective decision worthy of King telling their sory. So now whathappens? Solomon will be handed down. Mct surveys show

While President Bill Clinon and Vice President the public soundly in the environmentaliss'camp. Al Gore may have been moved by the ptght of the If ever there was a time for us to write and call loggers, many feel the Adminisration's mind was our elected officials, now is the tirne. Many set in favor of the environmentalists well before Congressmen will listen; we're not talking tbe imthe summit The thinking is that the 60 days set o possible dream here. For whatever we gain is fonnulate a "reasonable solution" will be spent do- likely o be more than we have now. Or are likely ing what they intended to do all along. Basically to ger next month wben the 60 day period ends. what the environmentalists wanL If we lie down now without a peep, the only

The cabinet officers responsible for the envi- thing we'll see is the continued mahodical desrucronment are the ones President Clinton ordered to tion of the faest industry as we lnow iL

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