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Spotted owl had little effect on poverty, unemployment

PULLMAN – A major fear of the 1990s spotted owl controversy — that less logging would increase unemployment and poverty — did not significantly materialize on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, according to a new analysis by a WSU researcher. Annabel Kirschner, a professor in the department of community and rural sociology at WSU, said the peninsula’s economic […]