
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 12, 1993                   TAG: 9307120231
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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ECOSYSTEM: HANDLE WITH CARE

NEW PROPOSALS for logging in the Northwest are considered by Interior Department officials to be innovative and predictable. During the Reagan and Bush administrations, there was no leadership and no policy toward a re-education of logging interests to diversify labor into technical fields.

One in every four logs in the Northwest is sent "raw" - unmilled - to Japan, a fact not disputed by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, the Wilderness Society or the Department of Interior.

The ecosystem is indeed on the verge of unraveling. Once unraveling starts, there is no replacement of missing elements. There is little old-growth forest left. There is little time left. Nature must be treated with care. HAROLD P. WILLIAMS JR. MARTINSVILLE

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