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OPINIONS 



What's endangered 

 is common sense 



THE most endangered species on 

 the Olyrnpic PenuisoJa wpean to 

 be the femily tawmiU — and coimaco 

 sense. 



Ev«D if you believe thai the thou- 

 uuuia of acres already set aside for 

 spotted owl* and marbled murrdcts 

 aren't nearly enough: even if you 

 Relieve that the whole oU-frowtfa «c»- 

 iysten is on tbe eve of oestructioo, 

 SVirelx ycu win agree t)v>t it's on3y 

 right that the Mayr Bros. Legging C0. 

 of Hoqulam be compeoMted for the 14 

 millian board feet of federal tinibtf it 

 bought, fair and square, but has been 

 unable to log for nearly six years. 

 • Three years after President Clin- 

 toB's Forest Conferea^ and a week 

 after the cod of the Seventfa American 



. Caught in the middle once again is 

 Mayr Bros. Tb« Koquiam cempainr 

 bought severaj Section 318 old^owth 

 timber sales from the Forest Servioe 

 in the Olympic Natiooal Forcsl about 

 six years ago. 



•: Sen. Slade Gorton of Wssbingtoa 

 and Oregon's Mark Hatfield have 

 crafted a comproinise plan to give the 

 sdministratioa new fleiability to buy 

 9Ut the contracts or provide substitute 

 timber in cases where major caviro&> 

 mental impacts atv f eand. 

 ; But the White House is balking 

 becaota the Republicans' plan still 

 fivu the contract bokler final say oa 

 wbetho' a buyout offer or exchange is 

 acceptable — as if that's not ialr. 



' While Washington fiddles, mora hu- 

 man beings are getting burned. 



; Mayr Bros., whose resilience and 

 ingenuity have been beacons of hope 

 tor Grays Harbor, announced Friday 

 l^at It will lay off most of its UO 

 employees ever the next two months. 

 Lack of revenue from the 31* sale 



loggertieadsovertimberpoHcy. • meet loan navments for t>i« . ^^iSw 



r timber policy. 



Hub being an election year, we are 

 not holding our breatb for a solution 

 any time soon: 



It isn't all his fault, but President 

 Clinton's track record on Ii7nt>er issues 

 is a mirror image of his wortt (eodeo- 

 cies as governor of Arkansas: ' Bob- 

 bing. Weaving and often reversing 

 course, he wants it both ways. 

 .' As part of a comprehensive spend* 

 ing bill last summer, Cliatwi signed 

 the salvage logging 'Yider." which 

 yould allow logging of blow-down and 

 other trees that otherwise would be 

 left to rot. But the rider also allowed 

 logpng of some green timber, the 

 '.'Section SIS" sales that date back to 

 the Bush administration. 

 < Environmentalists claim this log- 

 ging will wr«ak havoc, and during a 

 campaign stop in Seattle last week, 

 the president declared that he wants 

 torepealmuehofthelaw. , ... .1 ._ 



meet loan pa^^ents for the small-log 

 sawmil] it built in 19S3 to make the 

 - t r a nsi tion to the new dounsized era. 



: Mayr3r(s. did everything it eeuU 

 to meet the challenges of the future 

 ^nd preserve hundreds at Xamily-wag« -. 

 3obs. AJad it's stiC gettiog hosed. 

 l\ ' Company Cresident Tom Uayr is 

 absolutely rignt when be says that if 

 >Iayr Bros, isn't sUowed to log the 

 ^ber it bought, it should be folly 

 Compensated for the stumpage, plus 

 pillions in damages due to the delay. 

 V '"Xcep hope alive," candidate Clin- 

 •(on said in 1992. "We haven't get « 

 «erseB to waste." 



.•■ Wbafi wasting is lime, Mr. Presi- 

 tdent At iba rale we're going, will 

 ■,ttoera still be a Mayr Bros, when Uncle 

 ■fam gets around to keeping his part ef 

 _:ihe bargain? 

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 lef JohO Bugbm, Dta Aaaa Bauso, 

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