Word: conservationists
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Unlimited Liability. As his under secretary in charge of legislation, he appointed Russell E. Train, a noted conservationist. Hickel stopped developers from wiping out Nevada's Pyramid Lake, habitat of the Paiute Indians. He blocked a builder's plan that threatened to further pollute the Potomac. He sponsored a pilot project uniting three seashore areas around New York Harbor, the first of a series of urban national parks. He dreams of combatting auto fumes with 150-m.p.h. commuter trains: "From five miles out, you'd be downtown quicker than if you drove...
Green Belt. Hickel has obviously learned that the environment is becoming a hot political issue. By his lights, though, he has always been a conservationist. As he sees it, using natural resources wisely requires different approaches in different areas. He backs development in Alaska, where huge forests rot for lack of logging. He backs land preservation near cities where trees are vanishing. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Richard Saltonstall, he outlined his evolving ideas...
Airborne Cats. Beyond the danger to fish and birds lies DDT's threat to the whole ecological system. Concentrations of DDT no larger than a few parts per billion in plankton, says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr., chief scientific adviser to a New York conservationist group called the Environmental Defense Fund, can substantially hinder the photosynthesis process. On a larger scale, such interference could have a devastating effect, since phytoplankton produces 70% of the earth's oxygen...
...publicizing the alligator problem, Hickel is bringing powerful pressure to bear on Congress to adopt strong conservationist legislation. He supports a measure that would make it a federal offense to ship across state lines any animal or bird considered to be threatened with extinction, or their skins, pelts or plumage. Carrying with it a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, the law might serve to slow down some of the alligator-skin traffic...
Ghetto Green Space. Animal protection is not the only area in which Hickel is showing a conservationist's concern. Since the oil-slick disaster off Santa Barbara, Calif., Hickel has drastically curbed drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. He plans to enlarge the nearby Channel Islands National Monument's federal wildlife sanctuary, which has been kept free of state and federal lessees. He is also considering measures whereby oil leases would not be granted without an opportunity for both congressional approval and public hearings. While the Administration's tough proposed legislation on coal-mine safety and health...