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Brief Shuttle-Debris Harvest Ban in Texas As the disastrous wreck of the Columbia space shuttle was making its way through the national consciousness, on Monday morning, February 3, loggers in East Texas learned that a federal agency had issued an order to cease harvesting operations while the debris search proceeded. However, by that afternoon, authorities' stance had changed. As state Representative Jim McReynolds expressed it to the Lufkin [Texas] Daily News, "The decision was made . . . that they need to get back in the woods because they can be part of the discovery team." Temple-Inland Forest Products published a "harvest procedure and notification protocol" for operations on its lands in Texas and Louisiana, calling on contractors to walk the tract immediately ahead of current operations and to flag any findings and notify company authorities, who, in turn, have specific notification duties for findings of, respectively, shuttle debris or human remains.
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