Saving Owls Costly, Timber Industry Says: A...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Saving Owls Costly, Timber Industry Says: A proposed federal plan to save the threatened spotted owl, which could halve logging in 17 national forests, would directly and indirectly cost 100,000 jobs generating $3.8 billion a year in income in Washington, Oregon and Northern California, the American Forest Resource Alliance said. A team including economists, social scientists and foresters from universities in Washington, California, Montana and Minnesota figured that the loss of each timber job would cost another 1.7 jobs in the immediate economy. Earlier estimates set job losses to the year 2000 at from 12,000 to 50,000.
