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These are the acts of a few criminals. But the new machines cause more general damage. Trail bikers litter the landscape with beer cans, pull-top rings, plastic bags, oily rags, empty bottles. Pistol-packing snowmobilers are decimating Alaskan caribou; overhunting is common elsewhere. At Minnesota's tiny, remote Pierz Lake, a reporter counted 67 snowmobiles and 120 fishermen in one winter day. The sportsmen took out 556 Ibs. of medium-sized fishabout a year's production for the lake...
...both. To obtain more natural gas, the Government will probably allow producers a higher rate of return. If the construction of power plants and transmission lines is to be hastened, a multitude of local governments will have to sacrifice some of their authority. Oil in quantity from the rich Alaskan finds will not reach the market for years, even if the Government allows a prompt start on construction of the trans-Alaskan pipeline, which conservationists oppose. Some oilmen believe that a vast untapped pool of oil lies beneath the Atlantic shelf, but offshore drilling has lately been curtailed by concern...
...Senate offer of $1 billion to the Alaskan natives for 350 million acres is $2.82 per acre. What Congressman would sell his land for that when there is oil under some of it? Compare this to the revenue of the state of Alaska: already $900 million by leasing to oil companies the 434,000 acres on the North Slope (legally liberated from the natives) and a potential $200 million per year from pipeline oil royalties and taxes...
Though Tussing is only half serious, the bet is that Alaskans will not repeat the mistakes of this year's postponed boom. The state legislature can surely do better. In its last session, which ran a record 147 days, precious little was accomplished in long-term planning. The lawmakers had a "Blueprint for the Future" prepared by the Brookings Institution in Washington. Governor Miller preferred to order up his own study by the Stanford Research Institute. Result: ineffectual bickering about differences between the two versions. Still, one of the charms of the Alaskan legislators is that they have a particularly...
Nowadays, trapping is on the wane, a victim of the fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...