Word: adirondacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth tremor, which occurred in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, was forecast by Yash Aggarwal, 33, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Aggarwal and another Lament scientist, Lynn Sykes, began to study the Blue Mountain Lake area two years ago, intrigued by the fact that in a generally calm region it experienced frequent small tremors. In mid-July, when two moderate quakes jolted the area, Aggarwal and colleagues from Lamont set up seven portable seismographs in addition to a permanent station already in place. For two weeks...
...Crimson extends condolences to the family of Danny D. Porter '72, a former photographic chairman of The Crimson, who was killed while camping in the Adirondack State Forest on Saturday. He is survived by his stepfather and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Nauman, and his sister, Janny Nauman, of Mansfield, Ohio...
...York last week the legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill to control land use on 3,700,000 acres of magnificent Adirondack valleys, lakes and mountains. Together with 2,300,000 acres already owned and protected by the state, the entire parcel forms what is in effect the biggest park in the U.S.-twice the size of Yellowstone and slightly larger than Delaware and New Jersey combined...
...stave off potential chaos, the state legislature created the Adirondack Park Agency, which last year prepared a preliminary land-use plan. All the private lands in the park area were classified under six categories, and density limits for development were fixed for four of them; in general, future growth will be allowed mainly around existing towns. These designations were based on a detailed inventory of such environmental factors as soil, slopes, water resources, wildlife and the potential for sewage disposal. The plan transcended simple zoning; it was in fact the most ambitious attempt ever to make development compatible with nature...
Developers are aghast. Their most frequent complaint is that the state government should not become so much involved in any individual's private business. But Vermont intends to go even farther; next year its legislators will consider an Adirondack-style plan to order and shape future development, and thus save the state's greatest resource: unspoiled land...