Scott Swanson
Editor:
Kirk Johnson’s Nov. 16 story on how the spotted owl fallout has affected Sweet Home, Ore., one of many rural communities in the Northwest in which livelihoods have been snatched away by environmentalists’ lawsuits and resulting legislation to stop logging in publicly owned forests, is quite incisive and accurate – to a point.
Mr. Johnson has done a eommendable job of describing how efforts to protect the habitat that scientists, 25 years…