Plantation pines: the paper industry moves South. From: E | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: Motavalli, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2004 Earth Action Network, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Flying over the 500,O00-acre Great Smoky Mountains National Park last year in a Cessna 180 operated by the nonprofit group Southwings, writer Chris Camuto could clearly see evidence of the park's enormous and breathtaking biodiversity, home to an estimated 100,000 species.

The scenery changed when the plane crossed the Tennessee River to the Cumberland Plateau. The river itself hosts giant silt plumes, which Camuto traces to the river's uneasy neighbors--giant corporate...

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