Timber Truce
Nov 12, 2007
KUOW local news interview with Tim Coleman and Lloyd McGee, members of the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition, on a novel management plan for the Colville National Forest.
Timber Truce in Northeast Washington
By Austin Jenkins
KUOW Radio
November 12, 2007
"...in timber towns, environmentalists are often blamed for ruining the economy. So what if the two sides called a truce and decided to work together to bring back jobs AND preserve the forest? It's happening in the Northeast corner of Washington. And that's where we start our weeklong series on Northwest communities reinventing themselves. Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.
On a dirt road in the Colville National Forest, a helicopter logging operation is underway. Two men, Tim Coleman and Lloyd McGee, watch as the helicopter approaches with its load of logs. Not so long ago, Coleman and McGee were on opposite sides of the battle over logging in Northwest forests. Coleman, with the environmental group Conservation Northwest, was an avowed treehugger...
