News by Jennifer Johnson, After nearly a decade of observing the aftermath of environmental crises in Oregon, Anton Chiono ’06 knew he wanted to be part of a solution. During the “Timber Wars” of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, when the Pacific Northwest battled to preserve endangered species and federal forests, he was a child living in rural Summer Lake, an Oregon ranching and logging town. When Summer Lake's sawmill closed, many of his parents’ friends lost jobs. Some moved on. Others never recovered. No matter what reasoning could be given for such a closure — that globalization had depressed demand for domestic forest products and cheaper timber could be sourced from abroad, that the culmination of decades of short-term policy decisions and inexorable global economic trends led to this outcome — Chiono realized little could salve the loss of the town’s primary economic driver.