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Science 11 December 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5396, pp. 1968 - 1969
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5396.1968
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News of the Week

AUSTRALIA:
Forest Pact Bypasses Computer Model

Elizabeth Finkel

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--Conservation scientists are reeling from the outcome of a fight over one of Australia's richest regions of biodiversity. An innovative and internationally praised scheme for reconciling conflicts over natural resources that tapped a 3-year, $23 million biota survey proved no match this fall for old-fashioned political muscle. The result was a bill passed late last month by state legislators permitting extensive logging in diverse forest ecosystems in the northeast corner of the state of New South Wales.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)