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Article: The timber industry takes its show on the road.
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- American Forests
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- May 1, 1990
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The Timber Industry Takes Its Show On The Road
"We've been quiet too long." The voice is Jim Hinson's, executive vice president of Intermountain Forest Industry Association. His audience is a dozen press women, and we are standing on the grounds of a University of Idaho campus in the remote northern part of the state. We are on a media tour.
Alluding to the abundance of media coverage for what the timber industry calls preservationist thinking, tour host Joe Hinson - himself a forester - goes on to note that press tours are a new - or at least stepped-up - industry public-relations strategy.
For three days in late June of 1989, industry ...