1.   About two-thirds of private timber harvests occur in the South, said Lark Hayes, an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center.

2.   Federal officials warn that even state and private timber management could be disrupted by the sales.

3.   His efforts to restore the salmon habitat have been financed by the national Forest Service, private timber companies and Pacific Rivers Council.

4.   Just down the road at a private timber company, forester Rob Wood also has concerns.

5.   No doubt he means plundering the Tongass National Forest as it were his own private timber resource.

6.   The administration has previously concluded habitat conservation agreements with such major private timber owners as Murray-Pacific and the Plum Creek Timber Co.

7.   The private timber companies that own and harvest old-growth forests must submit extensive plans to the state and receive approvals before cutting.

8.   The public land is intermingled with private timber holdings, mines, towns and villages in a crazy-quilt pattern that makes the park especially vulnerable to development.

9.   Within days, the fire had spread to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern Georgia and onto private timber lands on both side of the state line.