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...litter is human, to pilfer, divine." Such a maxim might well be carved on every American monument and tourist attraction. For if airmailing a beer can into Yellowstone National Park seems to give pleasure, stealing a hunk of Arizona's petrified forest seems to afford pure bliss...
...quickly establish a relationship with the woods. All your senses are engaged. You stop to examine wildflowers and taste fresh cold water from a fast brook. You hear the forest's noises-birds, rain hitting the leaves, a squirrel or porcupine scurrying out of your path...
Chicago has always heeded those words. Burnham's own grandiose plan to reshape the city in 1909 stirred men enough, for example, to create urban parks along Lake Michigan's shoreline and a system of neighborhood forest preserves. A plan in 1958 touched off a coordinated $5 billion building boom in the central business core. That led, in 1966, to another downtown plan-and more high hopes and work. Result: Chicago's Loop is among the healthiest downtowns in the U.S. At a time when corporations are fleeing other cities for the suburbs, big Chicago firms...
When the University refused to accept Black Rock without a maintenance endowment, he provided one--the Black Rock Forest Trust Fund, which now totals approximately $1.8 million. Interest from the fund was intended to finance maintenance and research at Black Rock, with the remainder contributed to Harvard's other forest, at Petersham. But today, about 75 per cent of the interest goes to Petersham, leaving a bare-bones budget at Black Rock...
President Bok silenced the most recent outbreak of controversy over Black Rock by stating, without explanation, that there had been no change in the status of Harvard's attitude toward the forest. Environmentalists have returned to the Federal Power Commission and the Army Corps of Engineers in an attempt to reopen hearings on the project. And Con Ed, while maintaining that the pumped storage plant is still needed, has begun to move toward alternatives and has removed Storm King from its ten year plan, scheduling it now for its 20 year forecast...