Word: conservationists
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...expand the system and spend enough to preserve existing sites against an ever rising tide of visitors. "Professionals in the field loved him, but the politicians often ignored him," observes Paul Pritchard, head of the National Parks and Conservation Association. Mott's long career as a respected outdoorsman and conservationist will end soon with his dismissal by Manuel Lujan, the new Secretary of Interior. Mott, 79, said last December that he wanted to keep...
...dreaded "greenhouse effect" -- global warming as a result of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere -- might already be under way. Parched by the lack of rain, the Western forests of the U.S., including Yellowstone National Park, went up in flames, also igniting a bitter conservationist controversy. And on many of the country's beaches, garbage, raw sewage and medical wastes washed up to spoil the fun of bathers and confront them personally with the growing despoliation of the oceans...
...issues, is coming to a close. President- elect Bush, who turned the pollution of Boston Harbor into a successful campaign issue, has an opportunity to show that he is serious about saving the planet -- even after the election. He sent out an encouraging signal last week by naming veteran conservationist William Reilly to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Reilly, 48, president of the World Wildlife Fund, promised a "new and constructive course" on environmental problems. It is none too soon...
Last year BLM Range Conservationist Walter Jakubowski persuaded authorities at the Colorado State Prison complex in Canon City to let convicts break the horses. Most of the inmates are city bred, and none have had equine experience. In one year the convict-cowboy program has tamed more than 400 mustangs. Another 350 horses are corralled at the prison to be trained at the rate of about ten a day. Most are only halter broken, rather than readied for saddlework...
...such a sweeping, unresolved saga be captured in fiction? In her eight previous novels, Nadine Gordimer has offered some excellent answers. She has fused her native land's agonies and contradictions into intense portraits of ordinary lives: that of a reactionary but troubled landowner (The Conservationist), for example, or of a white housewife caught up in the melee of a successful black revolution (July's People). A Sport of Nature is no less detailed and gripping than its predecessors, but its reach is more ambitious: a panoramic view not only of what has already taken place in South Africa...