Word: elk
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...environmentalists -- including Brundtland, considered one of the world's most conservation-conscious leaders -- think that some carefully regulated whaling is acceptable. Argues Heidi Sorensen, head of the Norwegian environmental organization Nature and Youth: "We love the minke whale -- in the same way that we love the reindeer and the elk. These are animals that are not threatened with extinction and that we hunt...
Devoted viewers also crave the reassurance of the status quo. It's not just Rumpoles and films of elk that compel many PBS maniacs; rather, they like the sense of belonging to a tweedy club, of feeling urbane by virtue of the TV channel they watch. There are apparently fewer and fewer such people, however: between 1987 and 1992, public TV lost 22% of its prime-time audience, twice the decline of commercial networks...
...waters would have to change their labels. No bottler, though, wants to give up the highly coveted "spring" label, since it commands premium prices over other waters. If the FDA stops short of the strict standard, contends James Heaton III, president of the National Spring Water Association in Banner Elk, North Carolina, "the government will be handing the big boys a license to lie to the public." Meantime, the industry's lobbying effort, warns Heaton, could backfire. Consumers, he says, could lose even more confidence in bottled waters. With bottlers already struggling to stay afloat -- annual growth has slowed...
...been kept low by disease, illegal poisonings and lethal encounters with cars. But Yellowstone could be a promised land. The 930,000-hectare (2.3 million-acre) park is surrounded by millions of hectares of wilderness, a panoramic spread of high plateaus, broad river valleys and forests that teem with elk and other wolf food. Abundant grizzly bears keep backpackers to a minimum. Hunters are allowed to move through the wilderness areas adjoining the park only during five weeks each fall, and killing a wolf could bring high fines and imprisonment...
Wolf advocates respond that before the turn of the century, the West had hundreds of thousands of wolves, which began killing livestock only after hunters slaughtered most of the bison, elk and other prey. Yellowstone's superintendent, Robert Barbee, points out that the situation is now dramatically different: the park and surrounding wilderness have more elk and deer than at any time since the white man went west. One conservation group, the Defenders of Wildlife, is so confident that wolves will stick to abundant wild game that it has unveiled a plan to compensate ranchers for losses to wolf attacks...