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A ''miracle'' in the forest.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-JUL-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1337 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A ''miracle'' in the forest.(Environment)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard

DORENA - When Janine Nilsen escorted Ray Jones into her favorite grove of ancient fir and cedar trees east of Cottage Grove, she was prepared to lay out all her reasons his logging company should forget about the spot.

But Roseburg Forest Products officials had already made up their minds. Jones told her the company would drop the 9-acre area from its logging plans.

Nilsen burst into tears.

"Emotion just washed over me," she said, recalling the scene from January. "I still get chills when I talk about it. I told him I thought it was a miracle, and I'd been praying for a miracle."

Nilsen and a group of Cottage Grove residents spent the past three years trying to block the Forest Service from allowing loggers to fell trees as old as 250 years in the Brice Creek watershed in the Umpqua National Forest.

They went as far as to erect a summer tree sit in the stand of old growth, taking a cue from environmental activists who scale trees in other national forest hot spots.

In the end, rancor gave way to civility. Both sides decided to talk and listen to each...

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