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...lifelong hunter and now a professional conservationist, I read with interest your article on states' efforts to ban some deplorable hunting practices [ENVIRONMENT, Oct. 28]. My father, grandfathers and uncle instilled in me a hunting ethic: respect for wildlife and habitat, fair chase, safety and reverence for the bounty and wonder of nature. Individuals involved with bear baiting, hounding and same-day, airborne hunting are not true hunters. Shame on them for their vicious slaughter of wildlife! But shame on us, the upstanding hunters, too for not pursuing these individuals. The hunting community should be the leading voice calling...
Ferguson, a quiet candidate who has made few waves against a strong incumbent, sports a cowboy hat and says he understands his fellow residents' strong mountain values. Ferguson could be helped, in this district of tourism and parks, with his solid conservationist credentials...
...Early on, the [conservationist] agenda tended to be taken on by upper-middle class, white Americans," he says...
Marshall is married to New York Times columnist and former Crimson executive J. Anthony Lewis '48; the couple has no children. Marshall's mother, Hilary, also lives in Cambridge. Her sister, Bridget de Bruyn, is a financial consultant in Dallas, and her brother, Hugh Marshall, is a conservationist in South Africa and Zimbabwe.CrimsonSewell ChanMARGARET H. MARSHALL is congratulated by Gov. WILLIAM F. WELD '66 at the State House in Boston last week...
...fine?" instead of "Now I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle!"). Lester and Pinkney also give the story--originally written in 1899 by a Scottish woman and set in India but with minstrel-like black characters--a specifically African-American slant. Marcellino's approach is the more conservationist. He has left the original's simple text as it was, merely replacing the characters' names with Indian ones and adding sweetly spare new illustrations...