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Last summer the Rhodes clan-John Rhodes, his wife Betty, their daughter, three sons and two grandchildren -gathered to enjoy the river in a different way: they floated through the Grand Canyon on a raft...
...much worry in coming back again. At night, after work, when there is no company, Nicholson will light a joint, put on some rock music, loud, so it seals off every other sound. Then he will start dancing, in front of a long glass door looking down over a canyon below, pleased, easy, alone...
...bill being considered by the House Interior Committee would double the size of Grand Canyon National Park. The amendment added to it last week by a 24-11 vote was sponsored by Arizona's conservation-minded Morris Udall. Thus the measure might be expected to have the support of every environmental group in the nation. Instead, it has provoked anguished protests from both the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth. Says Sierra Club spokesman Brock Evans: "It's a disaster of the first rank for the national park system...
...reason for the outcry is the innocuous-seeming amendment. It would give the 430-member Havasupai Indian tribe trust title to 185,000 acres of their homelands on the southern rim of Grand Canyon. Now confined to 500 acres on the canyon floor, more than 300 of the Indians are cut off from civilization during the winter, when the eight-mile trail that leads down to their village ices over. With their land back, the Indians say, they could again live on the mesa in winter and graze their cattle there...
...personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because "the life of the Havasupai over the past 13 centuries is an authentic part of the natural life of the Grand Canyon...