Word: forester
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skies over western Brazil will soon be dark both day and night. Dark from - the smoke of thousands of fires, as farmers and cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon. Unusually heavy rains have slowed down the burning this year, but the dry season could come at any time, and then the fires will reach a peak. Last year the smoke grew so thick that Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondonia, was forced to close its airport for days...
After years of inattention, the whole world has awakened at last to how much is at stake in the Amazon. It has become the front line in the battle to rescue earth's endangered environment from humanity's destructive ways. "Save the rain forest," long a rallying cry for conservationists, is now being heard from politicians, pundits and rock stars. The movement has sparked a confrontation between rich industrial nations, which are fresh converts to the environmental cause, and the poorer nations of the Third World, which view outside interference as an assault on their sovereignty...
There was just one snag. Along with the trust fund, Stillman left Harvard an all-too-real forest in upstate New York. Unfortunately, almost no one bothered using the Black Rock forest for research. This left Harvard with a problem: how to get rid of the forest without giving up the trust fund...
After more than five years of legal wrangling with the New York attorney general's office, Harvard finally succeeded in selling the forest this summer to the New York-based Golden Family Foundation. The new owners plan to lease the forest to a consortium of New York education institutions, who will use it for teaching and research purposes...
When Harvard originally announced its plan to sell the forest in 1984, it immediately came under attack from alumni and environmental groups, who argued that the endowment--now worth more than $2.5 million--was primarily meant for Black Rock's upkeep...