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Article: Been through this logging battle before.(Local Opinion)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2007
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Jim Weaver For The Register-Guard
It was the greatest timber fight in a generation - the clash over the National Forest Management Act of 1976. A federal court ruling had shut down logging on the national forests, and Congress scrambled to nullify it.
The timber industry put forth a one-paragraph bill overriding the court. At the urging of environmentalists, Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., sponsored a lengthy bill requiring forest plans and diversity.
Humphrey, author of the Sustained Yield Act of 1960 and a former vice president, was so revered that the industry feared even to lobby against his bill in the Senate, ...