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Bush Puts Out a Contract on the Spotted Owl Jeffrey St. Clair
The genus behind this scheme to privatize the spotted owl recount is Mark Rey, the Paul Wolfowitz of the chainsaw brigades. Rey, once the most feared timber industry lobbyist on the Hill, is now deputy secretary of agriculture overseeing the Forest Service. He has been at war against the owl and its defenders for 20 years: orchestrating numerous industry lawsuits, directing campaign contributions to pro-timber legislators, drafting legislation that exempted logging in owl habitat from compliance with environmental laws.

The owl recount resulted from a 2002 lawsuit that Rey helped concoct with his former clients at the American Forest Resource Council and the Western Council of Industrial Workers, a union under the thumb of the bosses of big timber.

Labor Unions Applaud Senate's Bipartisan Passage Of Healthy Forests Restoration Act PRNewswire
The following statement can be attributed to Michael V Draper, vice president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters' Western Region and chairman, Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee:
'The unions of the Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee applaud the Senate's passage of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. Today's action continues to show that a broad, bipartisan group of legislators support active management of America's public forests based on science, not emotions and lawsuits.

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