Word: cordova
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...forests would be saved for hunting, fishing and tourism. But the natives would have to forgo income from logging. Advocates of the plan needed a native Alaskan to help sell it, so Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska biologist, and David Grimes, a fisherman from the village of Cordova, recruited Dune Lankard...
...time, Lankard was a commercial fisherman who sat on the board of the Eyak Corp., which administered the tribe's land rights. He had grown up fishing for salmon and herring in Cordova and never identified with environmentalists. "I used to call them 'granolas,'" he says with a laugh. But he had become concerned about how runoff from logging operations was polluting the streams fish use to spawn...
...become stewards of the land again." In Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them. But he was taunted on the street and cursed at sea. An Indian logger pushed him against a wall in a Cordova bar and threatened him with a pool cue. He was voted off the Eyak Corp. board and sued twice...
Pittsburgh (Cordova 13-13) at Cincinnati (Bere...
...Number of times Sosa has been retired this year by Shane Reynolds of the Houston Astros, Pedro Astacio of the Colorado Rockies and Francisco Cordova of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the pitchers who have retired him most often without surrendering a homer...