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Article: Changes cloud forestry's future. (government restrictions and environmental concern affect the timber industry)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- August 1, 1991
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It has become common in the timber industry to refer to loggers as an endangered species and to lament infringements on a pioneer livelihood. Representatives of the nation's forest-products sector decry the assault they Say is being made on their livelihood by urban environmentalists and meddlesome bureaucrats.
While the political commentary moves up and down the stridency scale, from grumbling sareasm to shrill panic, it is increasingly clear that numerous, and in some cases irrevocable, changes are taking place in an industry never known for stability even in good times. Almost without exception, the changes stem from government policies driven by rising ...