Word: conservationism
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When REAP was started 37 years ago, the idea was that the Government would subsidize farmers to undertake such conservation practices as terracing their land, reseeding grassland and spreading lime on their fields to enrich them. The plan made sense in 1936: better conservation was urgently required to prevent the...
Over the decades, farmers' income has grown to record highs, and REAP has degenerated into a pork barrel. Many farmers were paid year after year for continuing conservation practices that they were originally encouraged to start as a demonstration for their neighbors. Some REAP drainage projects destroyed wetlands needed...
>TIMBER WOLVES. There are fewer than 1,000 Eastern timber wolves left in the U.S., but they still raid cattle in northern Minnesota. The state and federal governments therefore worked out a plan whereby hunters would be allowed to kill up to 200 wolves a year within specified boundaries in...
In making its recommendation, the committee said that "the issues for and against the Cornwall project have and are being adequately represented by the City of New York, conservation groups and Con Ed and that it is not necessary for Harvard to either endorse or condemn the project."
But Mrs. Ellis and Mr. lee have a good conservation going Mrs. Ellis tells Mr. Lee she's going to Detroit for Christmas to visit her son, who is in the Air Force and will retire after 17 more years to Florida. Where his pension will allow him to become...