Big Timber's Big Problems

Timber giants like Trillium and Weyerhaeuser claim they're practicing "environmental forestry" on privately owned land. But are they really? We'll tell you what these and other companies are doing wrong - and how they're hurting some of the Northwest's most precious resources.

by Mike Blain
An Investigation of Private Logging Companies that Violate Forest-Practice Laws in Washington State
Violating Nature
A sample of timber-practice violations committed by major logging companies.
Political Log-Jam on Deer Creek

by Kurt Beardslee, executive director of Washington Trout Inc., a statewide fish conservation organization.
Timber Lobbyists Seek to Axe Legislative Reforms

by Kimberley L. Crawford
The Giving (and giving and giving) Tree

by Andrea Helm

FEATURES:

Report Card From Olympia

Here are some highlights - and many lowlights - from the '94 legislative session. It was an off-year, if your keeping score at home.
by Free Press staff

Life After Cobain

Kurt's gone. But will the angst of Generation X'ers follow him to the grave? One can only hope so.
by Steven Hill

SPECIAL:

Rags and Riches

Unemployed? Why suffer? In fact, why the hell not go through cash like there's no tomorrow?! Here's how - and why you should.
by John Ambrosavage

THE REGULARS:

The First Word Ideas that cut through the bullshit.

by Mark Worth

Mail Actual letters from actual readers.

Free Thoughts Opinions we couldn't keep to ourselves.

Follow File Updates of past WFP stories.

Quick Hits Small stories about big news.

Working Of and relating to labor.

reported and compiled by Doug Collins.

EnviroWatch How humans treat their surroundings, each other, themselves.

Spike, the Rabid Media Watchdog The poop on the local information industry.

reported and compiled by Mark Worth and FP Staff.

Reel Underground Your guide to experimental film.

Bad Bus Poetry Live actual poetry as seen on a live actual Metro bus.

Free Facts The Northwest in numbers.

Ambrotoons

Issue Number 9 April/May 1994

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