Ancient timber protections emerge from first round.

Discusses the Agriculture Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms and Energy and the Interior Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands's approval of separate versions of a bill (HR 4899) that would preserve millions of acres of federal forests in the nation's northwest. Efforts to save the threatened northern spotted owl and other declining forest species; Fund to help timber-dependent towns evolve into more diversified economies; Loss of timber jobs; Timber sales; More.