Sentence examples for timber dollars from inspiring English sources

When I first drove through Forks in 1990, plaintive yard signs read, "This Family Lives on Timber Dollars"; bumper stickers asked, "Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?" and offered recipes for how best to roast or fry the northern spotted owl.

Your article on the Trump administration's push for more logging in burned areas points out the failure of the U.S. Forest Service to protect all Americans by preserving these areas in favor of those interested in taking what belongs to all citizens and turning those trees into dollars for timber companies.

Federal dollars, fishing and timber sustained Alaska until the discovery of oil in the 1960s.

In 1996, Elouise Cobell, a Blackfoot Indian, filed a lawsuit claiming that the government had mismanaged billions of dollars in oil, timber and other royalties held in trust for some half-million Indians.

"But based on comments from what we've heard in the community and what's been reported, we may be in just the early stages of this". Wyden compared the frustrations of the activists to those of all rural Oregonians, who face a troubled economy yet to fully recover from the decline of the timber industry and dwindling federal dollars to replace lost timber income.

Illegal logging is a multi-billion dollar industry, depressing timber prices and generating $10-15 billion annually in criminal proceeds.

The Forest Service gets at most a few million dollars a year from timber sales, but spends multiples of that to support logging.

One- and two-bedroom timber cabins start at 170 Australian dollars a night for two adults and two children under 12.

Environmentalists estimate that timber sales brought in thousands of dollars for the Taliban.

In 2002, allegations surfaced that President Charles Taylor had sold concessions worth several millions of United States dollars to a Hong Kong-based timber company — the Oriental Timber Company — to conduct logging within the boundaries of the park.

In 1938, the court ruled the company had clear title to the land, which has since yielded millions of dollars in natural gas, timber and oil, according to state records.