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Beauty v. Need. The atmosphere of conflict, both inside and outside the ranks, is as natural to conservation as the scent of balsam. For opposed to every conservationist cause there is always the need of those from whom the land is being saved. Steel manufacturers, for example, have discovered that the most efficient sites for their plants are near water transportation. One such location is the Indiana Dunes, a strip of glacier-formed beach, sand dunes and marshland running along Indiana's Lake Michigan coast from Gary to Michigan City. For 50 years conservationists have seethed as the dunes...
...Room. A rare blend of innkeeper and conservationist, Rockefeller has until now specialized in the Caribbean, building quiet, out-of-the-way resorts on Bali-Ha'i beaches with 24-carat accommodations-Caneel Bay on St. John's, Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda, Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico. Mauna Kea may prove his biggest resort investment so far. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the hotel is a tiered, four-story structure whose 154 rooms surround palm-filled inner courtyards. Guests with rooms facing west gaze out on a beach with sand the consistency of powdered sugar...
RHINOS BELONG TO EVERYBODY by Bernhard Grzimek. 207 pages. Hill & Wang. $12.50. Africa and its wildlife have admittedly been done to death in picture books, not to mention the movies. But Dr. Grzimek, who is director of the Frankfurt Zoo and widely respected as a conservationist, makes an excellent guide. His subjects do not just stand around as in most such books. They charge the photographer, get rescued from swamps; a pride of lions claw a stuffed zebra that Grzimek set up just to see what they would do. The text is informal and informative, just as a good guide...
...director of the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., said that the project would not seriously affect the experiments now under way at Black Rock. "They'll take part of our and," Raup said, "but not very much. They've been discussing it for some time," Preservation Conference, a conservationist Raup added. The Scenic Hudson Pre-group, had been fighting the construction of the project. The Conference stated yesterday in New York that the decision must be reversed, and indicated that it would take action...
President Johnson's conservation program will presumably get under way in mid-May at a White House conference on natural beauty under the chairmanship of Laurance Rockefeller, chairman of the New York State Council of Parks and citizen conservationist No. 1 (he has personally presented the nation with some 6,000 acres of national-park land...