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...Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
While not directly affecting most speculators right now, the existence of PIK has helped encourage sodbusting. In one area of Montana, for example, undeveloped land that sold for $100 an acre recently fetched more than twice that price when tilled in wheat. Says Ronald Miller, a federal district conservationist: "As long as a person can come in and almost immediately double his money, the problem is going to continue...
...restaurant. "I'm here to raise money to run against you," Marks proclaimed jovially. Of his 800 PAC solicitations, Marks hooked 100 donors, raising almost $100,000. Burton piously proclaims he will never take corporate PAC money. But he will take it from labor, progressive groups and conservationist clubs. More than half of his $450,000 re-election fund will come from such PACs...
...first glance, Interior Secretary James G. Watt's sweeping federal wilderness proposal seemed an offer no conservationist could refuse. Its chief feature: closing up U.S. wilderness lands to oil and gas drilling, and even mineral mining, until the year 2000. Declared Watt: "We think these lands are special lands and should be preserved in their natural state...
...Before Harry Hopkins arrived on the scene, Roosevelt had a pet scheme of his own for the unemployed. An ardent conservationist, he wanted thousands of the jobless to work in the nation's parks and forests. His Civilian Conservation Corps prompted William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to protest that "it smacks of Fascism, of Hitlerism, of a form of Sovietism." By the middle of July 1933, however, more than 300,000 youths between 18 and 25 were at work under Army discipline in 1,300 CCC camps. Among other things, they helped plant more than...