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HSDF Vice-President G. Pebble Gifford writes in an e-mail that thanks to Cambridge’s fast food zoning ordinance and its strict regulations involving litter and disturbance issues, most national fast food chains have not tried to enter Harvard Square...
...offering special events and celebrity guests such as Butch Patrick—TV’s Eddie Munster—and WWE Superstar Kane. With thrills like “International Monster Museum” and “The Experiment” and showcasing the magic of Gifford and Roy, Spooky World is certainly not, as its website proudly proclaims, “nothing more than monsters jumping out.” Take the red line to UMass/JFK. Expo Center is at 200 Mount Vernon St. If you can’t find the time or the transportation...
...original approach of balanced use of public land—rather than a complete protectionist policy, as some environmentalists advocate—that America must return to.Bush’s ideology bears only the most distant relationship to the original Republican environmental ethos—the conservationism of Gifford Pinchot, a turn-of-the-century Republican who served as the head of the National Forestry Service and founded the Yale School of Forestry. Pinchot took a utilitarian stance: Not strictly opposed to development of wild lands rich in natural resources, he wished to preserve them for commercial initiatives...
...President Roosevelt regarded the nation's trees and open land and animal inhabitants as prime constituencies whose interests he must serve. His dear friend forester Gifford Pinchot joined him in warning the public that the natural resources of the U.S. were not inexhaustible, that a timber famine was imminent and that coal, iron, oil and gas would run out someday. Congressional leaders didn't want to hear about game or tree protection or the resource needs of future generations. Roosevelt took advantage of what he called the "bully pulpit" of the presidency to educate voters and legislators about the need...
...President he became the first to make environmentalism a political issue. Under the tutelage of his friends--naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir, who convinced Teddy that the Federal Government would be a better protector of parkland than the states, and U.S. Forest Service chief Gifford Pinchot, who wanted strict controls over commercial use of woodlands--Roosevelt learned to shape his love of nature into a policy to defend it. The year after leaving the White House, he explained his philosophy to an audience in Kansas. He recognized the right, he said, even the "duty" of his generation...