President Bush’s Decision to Allow Logging in Owl Country
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The effort to save the spotted owl from extinction may cost thousands of lumber industry workers their jobs. It all comes down to which is more important: the welfare of human beings or animals? Owls are usually associated with wisdom, but the campaign to preserve them at the expense of humans is one dumb decision.
KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN
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