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To: Scumbria who wrote (135780)	4/4/2001 4:05:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573413

American lumbermen are sure to get a sympathetic hearing from the Bush administration. We'll see. I'd personally wait until someone pushes through or tries to push through a protectionist measure before I call them a protectionist. Tim

To: Scumbria who wrote (135780)	4/4/2001 6:41:00 PM
From: stribe30	Respond to of 1573413

Scumbria: One of the things that the lumber industry and the Congress guys were claiming among other things that justified their large duty they seek is that logging companies in Canada are wasteful and environmentally harmful... tell me.. did any of the looging companies do anything like what I am about to post below for the spotted owl? Just wondered. (Now.. I'll admit its probably due to an election call coming up in this particular province... but any way it comes.. I'll take it.. and besides.. its refreshing to see a government trying to appeal to the green side of people.. rather then big business prior to an election) ---------------------------------- Logging ban to protect 'Spirit bear' habitat WebPosted Wed Apr 4 17:58:55 2001 VICTORIA, B.C. - The B.C. government is banning logging in a part of its coastal region known as the Great Bear Rainforest. The announcement is part of a historic land use agreement announced Wednesday between the provincial government and 17 First Nations groups. Environmentalists are hailing the decision, saying it will protect a rare sub-species of black bear known as the Kermode or "Spirit" bear. Roughly 400 of the bears, which have white fur, live on remote islands about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver. B.C. Premier Ujjal Dosanjh said Wednesday that the agreement was a triumph of co-operation between environmentalists, loggers, businesses, and First Nations people. It began last year when the environmental group Greenpeace led an international campaign to save the bears' habitat. They convinced two major U.S. companies, Home Depot, Inc. and Lowes Co. to boycott wood logged in the Great Bear Rainforest. In response, four major logging companies agreed not to log in several sensitive areas of the rainforest. The new agreement bans all companies from logging. "We have faith that British Columbians' shared interests were stronger than their differences," Dosanjh said. "British Columbians and their government made the right decision." The agreement is one of several pro-environment announcements made by Dosanjh's NDP party prior to the provincial election call. cbc.ca