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Article: Whittlin' Dixie.
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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Chip Mills Supplying the Paper Industry Are Clearcutting the South
In the thicket of the Carolina Lowlands, the whirring buzz and grind of a lone chip mill disturbs the summer symphony of rustling branches, crickets and the guttural call of wild turkeys. As the highly-automated leviathan roars with efficiency, stripping bark and grinding trees into usable flakes for the paper and pulp industries, hunters and environmentalists do a little roaring of their own. Concerned the voracious chippers will devastate Southern forests, their interest groups are calling for heightened regulations and a moratorium on new mills until their impacts have been studied.
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