Word: conservationism
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Species preservation depends upon political resolve. Costs of conservation can be stunning, appearing all the more so when weighed against the abstract value of a species. Increasingly, biologists intent on saving a species are heard to cite either its usefulness to man or the dangers to man attendant upon its...
The Federal Government maintains that some conservation groups were told of the studies and agreed that they were necessary, but other environmentalists angrily reject the need for the projects. Says Allen Smith, Alaska regional director of the Wilderness Society: "I don't understand why they have to go out and...
IN THE most publicized mission, code-named Operation Green Sweep, 200 soldiers spread into Bureau of Land Management federal conservation land in northern California, seizing around 1000 marijuana plants in 10 days of raids.
Spear's document became the basis for an exemption attached to conservation legislation in Congress that allowed development of Mt. Graham.
Democrats are fond of blaming Reaganomics for the fiscal debacle without acknowledging that they voted during the '80s to raise regressive Social Security payroll taxes 30% while preserving such loopholes as the tax exemption on inherited capital gains. That exemption alone costs the Treasury $5 billion a year and benefits...