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While many Mayanists agree that wars contributed to the collapse, no one thinks they were the whole story. Another factor was overexploitation of the rain-forest ecosystem, on which the Maya depended for food. University of Arizona archaeologist T. Patrick Culbert says pollen recovered from underground debris shows clearly that "there was almost no tropical forest left...
...federal intervention, the Texas legislature passed a bill empowering the state to regulate and manage the withdrawal of groundwater in Edwards Aquifer. The state will now devise a plan for equitable water distribution that will enable the springs to flow even in times of drought, while protecting the delicate ecosystem that provides that water. "This is a spectacular success," says Babbitt, "a really remarkable evolution in which a small fish facing extinction triggered a lawsuit, which triggered a legislative response that is now going to work for the benefit of everybody in Texas...
...House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River and Mount Hood in the distance. Their mission was simplified in the slogans that often flitted across their computer terminals...
...assemblage of foresters, biologists, economists, plant and fish experts, geomorphologists, hydrologists and social scientists emerged perhaps the most sophisticated conservation analysis to date. A pioneering effort, says Babbitt. Noted team leader Jack Ward Thomas, chief wildlife biologist at the Department of Agriculture: "We're moving into ecosystem management, which nobody has ever done before...
...House sources say the decision was Clinton's alone, though he discussed it with Vice President Gore over their regular Thursday lunch in the President's dining room. Clinton chose option nine -- also known as "the efficiency option" -- which focused on watersheds as the basic building blocks of the , ecosystem and reflected the growing importance assigned to fish...