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I remember in the early seventies talking to my friends about starting a movement to set aside a preserve of some sort in the Amazon River valley to save some of the unique rainforest found in that area. This was out of concern created by the recent completion of the trans-Amazonian highway. With the opening [...]

Not too many  years ago, a French company after comparing satellite images said that Washington state had cut relatively more forest than had been cleared in the Amazonian rain forest.  This came at a time when alarms were being spread around the world concerning the rate at which the rainforests of that area were disappearing. Weyerhaeuser (“the tree growing company”) responded indignantly by [...]