
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 3, 1993                   TAG: 9308030165
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

TIMBER INDUSTRY SUES OVER ANOTHER RARE BIRD

The timber industry, a loser in the environmental battle over the northern spotted owl, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging protections of another bird nesting in the same forests.

The marbled murrelet, a coastal sea bird that hunts the Pacific Ocean but flies inland to nest, is thriving in Canada and Alaska and does not deserve threatened species status in the old-growth forests of Oregon, Washington and Northern California, the lawsuit said.

- Associated Press

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