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...Conservationist William Beebe said: "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again...
...photographs are monochrome and offset-reproduced, and the prose is conservationist and sternly isolationist, not to say jaunty in a scoutmasterly fashion. However, 65 of the 375 species of mammals in America-north of the Rio Grande-are given knowledgeable biographies by an industrious naturalist. Leonard Lee Rue III knows more than other authorities, including Larousse, will let on about the American opossum: Did anyone else know that an infant opossum is the size of a pencil eraser, while a whole litter of 16 would not fill a teaspoon? Most backward and unfortunate of all American mammals, Mother usually...
...find nothing critical to say about it." Because the 88-acre island is out of the way compared with most tourist attractions, the memorial probably will not lure crowds of visitors-which will be just fine with the bird watchers and woods lovers who frequent it. T.R., a staunch conservationist and outdoorsman, would also have approved...
...land chair money, fund raisers often cater to the specific interests of the potential donors. Conservationist Laurence Rockefeller, for example, endowed a professorship of outdoor recreation at the University of Michigan...
...ENDANGERED WILDLIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first of eight NBC news specials outlining the American Profile. Ed Dodd, conservationist and creator of the Mark Trail cartoon strip, narrates this study of the various animals and birds in danger of extinction...