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...Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen is helping rebuild a nearly extinct tropical dry forest in the 110,000-hectare (272,000-acre) Guanacaste Conservation Area, which until five years ago had been overrun by cattle and torched annually by ranchers and hunters. In California, at the Nature Conservancy's Coachella Valley Preserve, a few dozen volunteers felled thousands of salt cedar trees that had sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection...
That cooperation was recently demonstrated near Palm Springs, Calif. Real estate projects with a potential value of $19 billion were being blocked by environmentalists trying to protect the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard, an endangered species that inhabits the area. After a series of studies concluded that the reptile could survive if a 13,000-acre preserve were established nearby, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked TNC to help raise the $25 million needed to purchase the tract. Within four years, the organization had rounded up the entire amount. The environmentalists were satisfied, and the developers proceeded with their...
...sale, we showed "Union Maids" and "The Grapes of Wrath" and sponsored a Cinco de Mayo celebration with La Raza. This year the struggle continues; for example we have brought and may again need to bring pressure on Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. which owns a controlling interest in Coachella Growers, who, like Hemmet Wholesale, are refusing to bargain in good faith. The UFW experience certainly changed my viewpoint on farmwork, and agribusiness...
...true purpose of the delegation. Connecticut Mutual, in partnership with the California-based Desert Valley Citrus Corporation, has a controlling interest in a major grape-produceg in California at whose farm the UFW won a state-sponsored, union representational election in 1975. Since that time, this grape-producer, the Coachella Growers Company (CGC), has refused to negotiate a contract with the UFW. Therefore, members of the H-R UFW Support Committee went to Connecticut Mutual's Boston office to urge Connecticut Mutual to pressure CGC to enter into serious negotiations with...
Connecticut Mutual is not involved in daily supervision of the negotiations between the farmworkers and Coachella growers, Robert Stevens, vice president of the insurance company, said yesterday...