Word: conservationists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This oil rush stirred up powerful conservationist lobbies in far-off Washington. To stop the drilling, they lined up for battle against the oilmen, and even against Alaska conservationists who wanted to throw open all Kenai for exploration. The Interior Department moved to pacify the lobbyists. It proposed stiffer rules for granting oil leases on all U.S. gameland, suggested that the pro-moose Fish and Wildlife Service get veto power over gameland leases. And until the rules were formally adopted, the department suspended all leasing...
...started again, Alaskans set up a bipartisan committee, headed by onetime Democratic Governor Ernest Gruening, to argue the case for unlimited exploration. Said Gruening, himself a vociferous conservationist: "The conservation lobbyists who get most upset are those who live in big-city apartments and have not the faintest practical notion of, where the moose like to live...
DeVoto and Simmers, by making a catalogue of wild life in the area, have pointed out the acre's importance from a conservationist's view. It contains more than 100 species of plants, about 40 varieties of birds and occasional skunks and muskrats...
Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society and conservationist Sc.D...
...Oregon's animal-loving Democratic Senator Richard L Neuberger leaped to the defense of a herd of Texas goats. Outraged by a report that the goats are being plugged with high-powered rifles at Fort Sam Houston in order to give Army medics practice in treating battlefield casualties, Conservationist Neuberger demanded that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson investigate the tale and end any such inhumane target practice. At week's end, Wilson had made no reply to Neuberger, nor had the Pentagon made any move to deny that the goats are under fire, not only in Texas...