Word: forested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft EIS was showered with criticism during the legally required three-month period for public comment. Although the Forest Service claims that 56 percent of the responses favored development; California's sharp rejection of the EIS reflects the views of many that the Mineral King impact statement was far from impartial. The state's Secretary for Resources wrote that the draft EIS was "premature" and that it appears to be "a conclusionary rather than a questioning document." This and other critical letters forced the Forest Service back to its drawing board; to patch up flagrant weaknesses in the draft...
EVEN JOYCE MAYNARD couldn't have chosen a better scenario. In 1969 the U.S. Forest Service announced its approval of a plan for a mammoth, year-round resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard...
...been six years since the Forest Service revealed its plans; the uproar over Mineral King's proposed fate has long subsided. Many who once railed against the resort have forgotten the issue. In fact, overall public enthusiasm for protecting America's air, water and other natural resources has fizzled. The focus of the environmental movement has shifted from mass action and mass awareness of Earth Day (1970) to a low-profile pattern of political and legal efforts by underfunded environmental organizations...
First, a suit filed by the Sierra Club forced the Forest Service to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a crucial, recently passed environmental law. The court victory delayed action on Mineral King for several years; the Forest Service took until December 1974 to publish the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project mandated by NEPA...
...fire in, a fire which I later couldn't get started because of wet wood, an episode ending in a most unwoodsman-like display of burned fingers, smoldering copies of the Milwaukee Sentinel, and constant invocations of deity piercing loudly and unecologically through the bucolic serenity of the Northland forest. Earlier, we pulled in to pay and encountered an old woman who began to babble about mushrooms--she was hell-bent, she told us, for the mushroom watcher's club meeting at nearby Nicolet College. She clutched her mushroom directory. Her daughter, a pious-looking woman with butterfly glasses...