Word: canyonize
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Another plant is overrunning parts of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon. Introduced about 70 years ago to act as an erosion fighter and windbreak, the tamarisk tree has taken over about 81,000 hectares (200,000 acres), pushing out native trees and threatening eight species of birds that nest in them. The Grand Canyon's major animal offenders are burros; turned loose by prospectors generations ago, they have grown into vegetation- devouring herds...
...call Souter bookish would be like describing the Grand Canyon as a hole in the ground. In the ramshackle farmhouse nine miles outside Concord where he has lived since he was 11, groaning shelves of books on philosophy, history and the law have won the battle for space. Souter jokes that the room looks like "someone was moving a bookstore and stopped." Vacations are devoted to rereading as much of the work of a particular author as he can; he has plowed through Dickens, Proust, Shakespeare and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the legendary Supreme Court Justice. When he is not reading...
This gap -- more like a canyon -- between the Art World and the Real World seems particularly sad in Holzer's case, since the one thing she evidently yearns to do is make contact with a wide public by showering it with improving mottos, printed on posters, zapping from light-emitting diode boxes, and even carved in stone: EATING TOO MUCH IS CRIMINAL, for instance, or ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. In the late '70s, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Holzer was smitten by an insight. To subvert the slow and, natch, "elitist...
...same advice applies to other lands and waters. Backpackers competing for summertime space in the famous shelters along the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, must preregister months in advance. And it is the same for Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon, a stream-fed desert site with unique wildlife, where only 50 camping permits are granted daily...
Getting on the water is also difficult. Most of the 22,000 slots for riding the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon go to commercial companies. Individuals face a minimum waiting time of three to five years. The toughest permit: the one to traverse Northern Idaho's Selway River, a rafter's prize because it is navigable only a few weeks of the year. The odds of winning the pass...