Word: forester
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...guided visitors, constitutes the gravest threat. Owing in part to the oil crisis of the late 1970s, Washington has encouraged strip mining, oil exploration and commercial development on the edges of many parks. Timber cutting next to Olympic National Park in Washington State has reduced the area's forest from 689,871 acres in 1959 to 106,000 acres today. "Trees in the forest are cut down to the edge of the park," says Wilderness Society President George Frampton. The Reagan Administration has authorized very little money for purchases of park land. In 1978 the budget was $681 million...
Then the crowd gasped as the plane failed to gain altitude, clipped a stand of 40-ft. beech trees at the end of the runway, and seemed to sink gently into the forest. It came to rest in one piece, but a spreading pool of jet fuel ignited and engulfed the plane. Even so, the chief steward and three flight attendants stayed with the craft, evacuating passengers on inflatable emergency chutes. The crew's heroism kept casualties remarkably low, but three people were killed and about 90 injured. The plane was a total loss, recognizable only by its red-white...
...until July 16, but Ruben Blades has already given himself the perfect birthday present. Anyone who wants is welcome to share it too. It was an early gift -- showing up, as it did, some four months before the big day -- but it casts a wider glow than a forest of candles planted on a piece of pastry. Blades went out and made himself a great record...
...mountain states and along the West Coast, record temperatures have brought the fire season in two months early. Montana has suffered through more than a dozen significant forest and range fires this month, including a 23,000-acre burn on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Brush and desert fires have blackened more than 8,000 acres in California, Idaho, Washington and Utah. Forest fires may be the most immediate of California's water problems, but the long-range crisis of a huge, thirsty population competing for limited supplies of water dramatically raises fundamental questions about life and land in the Golden...
...went to Wake Forest, Palmer's school, though Strange ceased to be a pup out of Palmer when he was snooty one time to a volunteer scorekeeper. Golf's great king slammed the young individualist publicly, along with all his modern kind, for "discourteous and ungentlemanly behavior and thoughtlessness that is despicable to me." Manners aside, Strange indicated odd priorities for such a talented man. He customarily skipped the British Open because of its proximity to his own little tournament for a brewery...