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. i 1ftlc &'ssk'!-2 AL 41NWHERM I THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1993 0 FL^~' IDX!'.n7 RO YSESi 3UMM1a: 'NH~-7r'J .-"ii J dAi'= i`There's no home for salmon ... spatted owl ... old growth forests.' - Billy Frank, Jr. FISHING RIGHTS: They are worth little now for Biliy Frank Jr., of the Nisqually tribe. Frank dtes loss o By Je9 Reinking watersheds.

I -IV secomweek,n Ma¢h BySiaVwnCmk, tJSATOOAY COVER STORY 'Time to reinvest in forests' i, 2A • THURSDAY APRIL 1,',993 - USA TODAY _ Contlnued from lA __ Behind the spotted owl controversy The Clinton adnenistra6on is convening a sumrnh Friday to search for a compromise in the contenbous bat0e over protection of the endangered northern spotted owl. Where ine factions stand: R~ What enviranmentalists want I AII old growth forests on federal land off limits to further logging. Environmentalists calculate three million acres of ~ old growth forest are left What the indusiry wants ~ n would agree to protect some forest land but says the anvlronmentalists' demands would cripple the timber industry unless other protected forest land Is opened elsewhere for l d kgging. Industry also says there are 9 million acres of o gmw[h remaining. What Clinton adminishation could do Presarve much of the old growth forest but open other areas for logging. The administration eiso may offer funding to help retrain displaced Umber workers. ~~~~~flli • 4,600 owls vs. 32,100 jobs The plan would take about 5.4 million acres of federal land, an area about the size of Massachusetts, out of production to save 2,300 breeding pairs. In addition, 2.1 million acres of national paddand would be off limus. An esumated 32.100 jobs would be lost, acmniing to the Forest Service, although the Umber Industry puts job losses much hlgher. HOW MANY OWLS THERE ARE NUW in Oroyort 2,070 Mv,-,~ ~'Ss Breeding Sngle pairs birds In Caliromia In Washington 1r~ 816 739 Z L~ Breeding Single Breeding Sir~le peirs Uirds pairs blyds HOW MUCH LAND AN OWL NEEOS Owl's rlesBng uea: Cirde about 1.8 miles across Timber in nesting ama: Enough to build 4,1110 homes Economic situation in the Northwest UNEMPLOYMENT ON THE RISE... t ' ,1' LUMBER PRICES ~ 1 Aw0Wragbeo aMcepar • r r e112~itdl 1,t rgtnnm'6rar a 140 14 r-_•--1-t--i $.5a0 r---r- 9 tnnfnigiiMm ~ to~ !4T E • : . 0. .. . . . 05p'6a~ 7a 'an '90 Q87'98'89'90'91'92 'b9 '90 '91 '92 '93 aeum:0eperbnst ur IMener. wtlOemeAC SoBery. hoM1hweet Faeet Rsmwce Cn+c>t 2~ $200 c $100 1 -lor secawweex,n March UP - tloes he protect the spottetl owl amid demands of timber interests to har- vest the bird's old-growth habitat? For the adminicttation, the long mnning and bitter division dver the owl Ls but one of dosens of imminent clashes across the country pittingthe welfare of endangered species against human livelihoods. Clinton as mediator promises to "hanuner out a solution." The president will have his hands full with polariting goats:protecting owts, salmon and more than 600 spe cies dependent on oltl-growth_ forests while retairdng supplies of lumber, paper and other wood products that will put people back to work. And there is doubt about how much can be accomplished in the circus atmosphere developing in this city: 25.000 people are expected, all vying for Clinton's attention: • Four hundred timber businesses will shut down and give melLwork- ers Friday off with pay so they can come to Portland for a family day on the waterfront •Today, environmentalLSts step up with a pre-summit concert feamr- utg Bonnie Raitt. Nell Young, David Crosby and Kenny Logglnc. _ 11~ Frlday, a salmon-fishing flotilla rides the Witlamette River to a rally. Whatever solutions arise, Clinton mutions: "Everybody may be some- what disappointed. But the paralysis now gripping the lives of people mere Is totally unacceptable." I . Everyone agrees an that But the issues are as complex as the forests: haphazard patchworks of steep, scraped slopes, young planted seedlings, eroded roads, winding riv- ens, healthy stands of trees. Unlikely advocates for change have emerged. Take George Atiyeh. "Forest managers should look at this like a business," says the former logger from Mill Clty who now flies for me envrronmental group Light- hawk. "Now is the Ume to reinvest in forests, restore mem." Stan Shaufler, owner of Owl Lum- ber and Manufacturing in Bremer- ton. Wash., says national forest log- ging bans have cut his supply to trees cleared for urban development But he supports cutbacks-"We can scale back the volume of harvests in old-g[owm, take reduced cuts, with a plan to perpemate mese foresls." Few doubt there will be change. The question is, how much? "Timber interests ... ought to be quaking in their boots;" says Bill Ar- thur of theSlerra Club in Seattle, the By slephee OeMey. u5A TODAY 1 san of a logger. The initial skirmish will beover , how much "old-growth" forest - with trees dating to Columbui- will be set aside as wildernes9. No more than an esumated B million acres of vtrgin forest remain of the 21 million that once blanketed Ihe Northwest. Bottom line for many environ- mentaltsts: protect old-growlh areas. "Its a cnucal part of our herimge:' says Bob Chlopak ot Amenr.ans fnr dte Anctent Fores6. -- But Washington and Oregon's lush L national forests of unevenly aged trees - towering snag down to mossy undergrowth - provide 10% ; of US. limber supp8es "Environmentatists have got the public believing that we're ready to cut the last tree," says Chrns West of the Northwest Forestry Associatlon. "We have more forest land pre• served and protected in the Pacific Northwest than m any other repon." What companies want out of the summlt Ls "some assurance of a sta• ble supply of tSmber from the West- ern national forests," says Luke Po- povich of American Forest and Paper Associadon. That is likely to come from isolated, old-growth stands and non-ancient woods. The summit spotlight also will fall on the fishing industry, anotlier un• happy but critical component of Northwest forats. Nisqually Indian Billy Frank Jr. p1atLS to tell Clinton the problem: "Devastation of 909 of watersheds throughout the NorthwesL 2here is no home for salmon any more, no home for spotted owl, no home for old-growth forests." A rotting and patched dugaut ce- dar canoe lies on a grassy bank of Washington's Nisqually River out• side Olympia It's Frank's reminder , of his salmon-dshing days and the Northwest trlbes' battle to regain j treaty fishing rights - tlnally grant-'I ed in 1974 but worth UtUe now. Few coho, chinooki chum, steel- I head or sockeye return upnver to , spawn. Fishermen from 20 tribes don't catch enough to make a living their spawning grounds sil_ted over from eroding clear<ut fores6. "The forest summit will be an empty exercise if all they do is talk jobs and owls," says Charles Gauvin, president of Trout Unlimhed. About 60.000 flshmg-related jobs rely on Northwest stocks though 90 Lsh populations are at risk in owl ter- ritory and being considered for litt- ing as endangered species. But here Ls where Ctinton's eco- nomic plans mesh perfectly, Gauvin says. "Restoration- undoing the mess and stabuiang the forests, creates jobs. Thousands of miles of logging roads need to be redred." I Out of this surnnut could come, higher prices for federal umber an Id longer periods between harvesrs of , replanted trees. Timber flrms' pmc- I nce of expottung raw logs from pri- j vate foress could come under Ore, "You're exporting the jobs mat i would've been created to mill those I logs here," says Sami Yasa_of the - Natural Resouces Defense Council. And Clinton is sure to hear gripes. ~ about preservation for preserva-~ uon's sake. "We need to look at the .,I big picture," sa}s Fran Hunt of the ,~ National Wildlife Federauon. ,~ Argues Pem' Pendley of the con• .ii servative Mountain States Legal ,.p Foundauore "We"re deahn with an ® abyss that seuatztes environmental- N LStS from many people in the real f0 e'orld. We must use u:e IorPSt as aresource, not tust a place :n visC:' I