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To the surprise of the Rotary Clubs, J.E. Whitson, Roads Commissioner of Northern Ontario, and Howard Ferguson, Minister of Lands, Forest and Mines, were present at the opening, and agreed to pay the $768,000 $$ in ) bridge cost.
This included timber from state forests and mining and pastoral leases where the state owns the timber products, including on the Cape York peninsula.
And he backed two proposals approved by the Departments of Agriculture and Interior that would limit or eliminate the public's ability to block timber cutting in national forests and mining or oil exploration on public lands.
Factors causing the degradation of forests and woodland are bush fires, shifting cultivation, grazing, harvesting of forests and mining industries such as Kaziwiziziwi coal mine.
Recent efforts have been directed at attaining a World Heritage Listing for the Maliau Basin, which would effectively save the isolated and celebrated rain forests from timber and mining interests.
And Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has his eye on President Bush's plans to relax rules on arsenic in drinking water, forest roads and mining sludge.
It is a center of forest product and mining companies.
