Of salvage logging and salvation

From: High Country News | Date: December 25, 2006| Author: Trail, Pepper | Copyright information

Salvage is a word that is much in the air these days, not just in the woods, but also in the lecture halls of universities and in the marble corridors of Washington, D.C. It is a word of power, a soothing word implying many virtues: prudence and profit, rescue and redemption, both exploitation and, somehow, protection. No wonder politicians love it so.

Among the definitions of "salvage" in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language are these: "the act of saving imperiled ...

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