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Wilderness Chief in Tree Massacre
Cockburn, Alexander | April 24, 1995 issue

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The article reports that through late February and early March 1995, logging trucks carried $140,000 worth of old-growth ponderosa pine and Douglas fir from the private ranch of Jon Roush, president of the Wilderness Society of the U,.S. and a man paid $125,000 a year to preserve that freedom of the wilderness Robert Marshall pledged as the Society's credo sixty-five years ago. Roush logged off the eighty-acre patch of old-growth and mature forest on his $2.5 million ranch outside the town of Florence in western Montana at the moment that environmentalists had their backs to the wall, against an assault in Congress on federal laws protecting the U.S.'s forests.

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ENVIRONMENTAL protection; WILDLIFE conservation; FORESTS & forestry; PONDEROSA pine; YELLOW pines; ENVIRONMENTALISM; UNITED States
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