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...sorts of human stuff is being poured into our valley this year," lamented Conservationist John Muir about the crush of crowds in California's Yosemite Valley. That was in 1870, when Yosemite counted its annual visitors in the thousands. This year 1,700,000 people are expected to come geysering into the national park, and the overcrowding is becoming so severe that many will wonder why they ever left home...
Died. Charles M. Goethe, 91, California banker-turned-conservationist who made a fortune in real estate before he was 30, and spent the rest of his life using it to help protect the nation's natural beauty, making heavy donations to the infant National Park Serv ice from 1919 to 1923 to help preserve Yosemite's rugged splendor, later became a leader in the fight to save California's diminishing redwoods; of bronchial pneumonia; in Sacramento, Calif...
Died. Ernest O. Thompson, 74, world's foremost oil conservationist as a 32-year member and often chairman of the all-powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state's oil flow (and in turn sets the pace for 30 lesser oil-producing states), who started in the days of unlimited production and prices of 10? per bbl., quickly devised a system of monthly quotas for every Texas well; of pneumonia; in Amarillo...
Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
...meantime, the conservationist has the often thankless task of discovering and denouncing ugliness and despoliation, and the not infrequent joy of victories won. For there now is proof that industrial progress and natural beauty can exist side by side...