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DeVoto won a Pulitzer Prize for a biography of Lewis and Clark, the remains of whose Westward Trail can be seen today in the Clearwater Forest. Neuberger said DeVoto had been a "dedicated and courageous conservationist...
...small stones. "Duster?" croaked a dry-throated farm wife. "This one throwed rocks at us." One state farm official reported: "I've lived in the so-called dust bowl since 1907, and I've never seen it in the condition it is in now." Explained Texas Conservationist Henry N. Smith: "It isn't so much what this one storm did-it's that this one came on top of five years of trouble...
...little guy is running out of soil and money," warned Conservationist Smith. In Burlington, Colo. Banker Leland Reinecker reported "Most of the farmers lost money last year. Another year of drought will be disastrous." But this time no swarming migration from the dust bowl has developed; most farmers are gritting the dust between their teeth, grimly plowing their land deep with soil-saving techniques and praying for rain...
...park has to offer, that is too bad, but it must be done. This whole argument hinges on the very questionable assumption that the intangible values parks have to offer must inevitably be sacrificed to tangible values like acre-feet of water, kilowatt-hours of electricity, etc. A prominent conservationist once asked why this is inevitable, and to this day no one has produced an answer...
...start their academic year, the Fellows come first not to Cambridge, but to Petersham and the Harvard Forest for an orientation period. Following an introduction to the program and a study of the Forest from a conservationist standpoint, they embark on an automobile trip through some of the wide open spaces of New England and New York State. After casting a clinical eye on about 2000 miles of Northeast nature, they finally come on to Cambridge to spend the better part of the year in the library and the classroom...