Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobody knows for certain how much this is costing the nation. Economist Arlen Leholm of North Dakota State University ventures that his state alone will lose $2.7 billion in crops, lower federal farm subsidies and reduced farm spending. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service's William Fecke estimates that in Montana...
If things seem more placid today, that is only because the hired guns are lawyers and lobbyists camouflaged in pinstripes. High-stakes hydrobattles are brewing throughout the West as it runs out of new water sources. This arid region -- stretching from the 100th meridian to the Pacific -- now finds itself...
The sheriff, who owns three ATVs himself, takes no chances. "I don't equip my patrol car with a regular rifle," he says. "I have an M-16. I leave it in the patrol car where you can see it. You have to make a show of force." Although the...
Most often the problem is poor ventilation. Sometimes the difficulty stems from design flaws. In some buildings, for example, air-intake ducts are built directly over loading docks; exhaust fumes from idling trucks are drawn in and circulated through work areas. During the energy crunch of the 1970s, conservation measures...
They may already have too much. In the late 1970s, several conservation- minde d states considered restrictions on fish finders, although no bills were ever signed into law. Now even some of the fishermen think measures to protect fish stocks may be needed. "The odds have almost become too lopsided...