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...Walter Hickel for President! Why not? When he came in, many of us thought he was the kind who'd sell the polar bears for fuel oil; but he turned out to be an able, conscientious conservationist...
Died. Count Ilia A. Tolstoy, 67, grandson of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1924 and became noted in his own right as an explorer, conservationist and ichthyologist; in Manhattan. As an OSS agent in World War II, Tolstoy led an expedition from India into Tibet to enlist the Dalai Lama's aid in preparing a last Allied redoubt in Asia, to be used if the Nazis and Japanese managed to link forces in India. As a scientist, he developed a hypodermic harpoon for live capture of huge sharks and contributed widely to the conservation...
Sledgehammer v. Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens...
Died. James Fisher, 58, British ornithologist and conservationist; of injuries received in an auto accident; in London. Britons knew him as a sort of apostle for bird watching who kindled their interest through more than 700 radio programs, 200 TV appearances and 27 books. American bird watchers remember his Wild America, which he co-authored with Roger Tory Peterson, an account of their field trip in 1953, during which Fisher logged 601 different species of birds in 100 days...
...some people, the Alaskan environment is more precious than the oil. Conservationist David Brower, president of Friends of the Earth, argues that oil withdrawals should be rationed for several centuries. Others feel that the environment is secondary to more pressing priorities. Oil executives, for example, point out that as long as the U.S. insists on its cars and all the other machines requiring fuel, oil companies will have to supply the demand. As one oil man puts it: "We are a high-energy society, and oil generates 75% of our energy." Politicians talk of "national security"?meaning both...