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rical exercise, like Colin Powell's vaporous musings before the United Nations.

"The marking of these logging units before a decision had officially been made shows explicitly that the Bush administration's so-called 'collaborative' efforts were simply a bait and switch con game," says local resident Larry Campbell, a member of Friends of the Bitterroot.

There's a final irony here. After learning of the preemptive targeting of the old-growth stands along the East Fork of the Bitterroot River, environmentalists went out to inspect the doomed groves for themselves. Usually, the condemned trees are marked with an X. Here in the Bitterroot, though, the Forest Service spray-painted the big, yellow-bellied Ponderosas, some more than 400 years old, with an all-too familiar brand: "W".

Calling all human shields.

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89 Nations
& 8 states
have banned
leghold traps.