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Alabama loggers find security while critics cite ecological costs
In Alabama private landowners like Thomas Turnipseed convert soybean fields to loblolly pines hoping for steady income as logging expands. State revenues rise to 10.7 billion from forest products in 1998, yet environmentalists warn of habitat loss and polluted streams amid chip mill growth and intensified clearcutting.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas Turnipseed
Alabama
Turnipseed
Georgia Pacific
Pacific Northwest
U.S. Forest Service
Alabama the Beautiful
Lamar Marshall
Alabama Forestry Commission
Washington
Oregon
California
Northwest
Forest Service
Donna Smith
Alliance
Brevard
N.C
Smith