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...York last week the legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to control land use on 3,700,000 acres of magnificent Adirondack valleys, lakes and mountains. Together with 2,300,000 acres already owned and protected by the state, the entire parcel forms what is in effect the biggest park in the U.S.-twice the size of Yellowstone and slightly larger than Delaware and New Jersey combined...
...stave off potential chaos, the state legislature created the Adirondack Park Agency, which last year prepared a preliminary land-use plan. All the private lands in the park area were classified under six categories, and density limits for development were fixed for four of them; in general, future growth will be allowed mainly around existing towns. These designations were based on a detailed inventory of such environmental factors as soil, slopes, water resources, wildlife and the potential for sewage disposal. The plan transcended simple zoning; it was in fact the most ambitious attempt ever to make development compatible with nature...
...descent at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch paid off. Writing in Nature, he and his associates report that they also found large and significant changes in the relative velocity of P and S waves prior to more serious tremors. Furthermore, they note, the duration and intensity of the effect-which changes...
...West, brought to everything he touched-became the most expensive American sculpture in history, at $125,000. The previous record for an American watercolor ($36,000 for an Edward Hopper in 1970) was broken three times-by another Hopper, Light at Two Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same week, another and very fine Homer-Gallows Island (Bermuda)-also went for $65,000. And the price of every sort of "Americana" -that tract of once largely ignored painting, sculpture and craft that...
...call them) and conservationists may be fighting not only for the survival of the shad, the blue heron and the osprey, but for the survival of the human species. Boyle tells the story of 19th century Naturalist Verplanck Colvin who gave his life struggling to create what eventually became Adirondack State Park. The story-and this book-are a reminder that while Americans were busy getting and spending, much of the country was preserved for them by fond zealots and near madmen...