Word: conservationists
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Ever since 1906, when Conservationist-President Teddy Roosevelt imposed a ban on coal mining in Alaska to help preserve its natural grandeur, many Alaskans have harbored a deep resentment against the "meddling outsider"-especially the Federal Government in Washington, D.C., and "anti-development" conservationists. The recent oil-pipeline controversy, in particular, has turned resentment into outright antagonism and given new impetus to a budding secessionist movement...
Others agree that conservationist demands often seem unreasonable in an Alaskan context. "As long as they stuck to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was a very worthwhile organization," says Chuck Evans, vice president of the First National Bank of Anchorage. "But when they start attacking progress and profit, they're out of their realm." One bumper sticker puts it more crudely: "Let the bastards freeze in the dark...
...automobile engineering, new restrictions on city traffic, explorations for oil, the pollution of waterways-all this and more come to the EPA chief for a series of decisions that pit environmental interests against business balance sheets, land-use habits and even the traditional American way of life. Comments one conservationist: "In that job you're damned if you do and damned...
Haldeman began doing volunteer work for Nixon in 1952, and has worked in every Nixon political foray since then, while becoming a successful Los Angeles adman. Ehrlichman was settled in Seattle with a reputation as an effective zoning lawyer and an avid conservationist. At Haldeman's urging, he joined Nixon's unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign, then rejoined in 1968 and moved on into Washington with his political mentor. More than anyone else, the two made Nixon's White House work, but in an arbitrary and authoritarian fashion that made them a good many enemies and critics...
...campaign, a sharp contrast to a heavyhanded one waged two years ago on behalf of a transportation bond issue. That was defeated, and the moral might be that voters do not like to be bludgeoned into action. In New Jersey a proposed $650 million transportation issue was defeated. The conservationist Sierra Club was successful in its determined campaign to convince New Jerseyites that the bill called for too much money for road building and not enough for mass transportation...