In National Forests, What Use Is 'Wise Use'?
Readers are denied some very important information in the article "Land-Use Advocates Make Gains," Oct. 3. The new "coalition" the author describes is actually a slick, industry-funded public relations campaign designed to gut the nation's environmental protection laws. The central claim is to protect rights of the "little guy." In truth, big industry wants to plunder the nation's resources and is using the little guy to cover up its own agenda.
The examples offered about "private property rights" aren't so compelling if you know the whole story - such as the Hungarian immigrant who went to jail for illegally destroying a wetland. Could this be the same Hungarian …
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Article title: In National Forests, What Use Is 'Wise Use'?.
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Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: October 17, 1991.
Page number: 20.
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