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Many subcontractors and company towns will be hit hard as well. "The big prime contractors can take care of themselves. What worries me is the small fish," says Gordon Adams, director of the Defense Budget Project, a Washington-based research group. Since 1982 the number of U.S. firms making hardware for the Pentagon has plummeted from 120,000 to only 40,000. The new defense cuts will almost certainly drive thousands more out of the military- supply business. "You bet we are concerned!" says Bill Barth, president of Right Away Foods, an Edinburg, Texas, packer of C rations, which relies...
...played out again last week, symbolizes a clash of cultures. At issue are 19th century treaties, recently upheld by the federal courts, that allow the Chippewa to spear spawning walleyed pike in the shallows of 178 northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...
...years ago,...environmental issues were regarded as threats of ideological conflict, where champions of Nature battled champions of Progress," says Wilson. "Liberals... blocked dams to save oddly named small fish, while conservatives destroyed the environment for short-term profits...
Such programs have been slow in getting started. In at least one important region, though, there has been encouraging progress. The island of Madagascar is home to a stunning array of animal, plant and fish species, most found nowhere else in the world. Under intense pressure from a burgeoning population, the island is already largely deforested. But conservationists and government officials, making personal visits to more than 100 villages surrounding the Ranomafana primal rain forest, have taught indigenous people about the region's genetic diversity and shown them ways to survive without plundering the forest. Ranomafana is soon...
Give a day for the Bay. In Maryland, residents by the thousands have signed up for the April 21 statewide cleanup that has Chesapeake Bay as the focus. Volunteers will plant trees and marsh grass, paint DON'T DUMP signs on storm drains, build nesting boxes for ducks, remove fish barriers, pick up debris from streams and shorelines, test water and scout pollution sources...