1. The loggers say their jobs are faced with extinction because of declining timber sales. 2. And in a related move, environmentalists in Arizona and Oregon petitioned the federal government to allow environmental groups to bid competitively with loggers for timber sales. 3. And lawsuits have held up timber sales in the Okanogan National Forest. 4. And in a related move, environmentalists in Arizona and Oregon petitioned the federal government to allow environmental groups to bid competitively with the logging industry for timber sales. 5. And on the timber front, loggers should no longer be the recipients of below-cost timber sales. 6. And the Clinton administration meddled in decisions on how to handle individual timber sales. 7. Babbitt proposes that Congress finance burning on federal lands with money from timber sales and grazing fees. 8. Below-cost timber sales ................. 9. A mere subspecies of bird was taking away thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in timber sales. 10. But at the request of log-starved Northwest timber interests, Congress added the requirement to harvest the stalled federal timber sales, regardless of their environmental baggage. |