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Another liberal group surprised by Reagan's policies was California's environmentalists. Reagan had protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir...
...program is not intended for armchair Audubons. To earn the coveted N.W.F. habitat certificate, an applicant must fill out a detailed questionnaire describing the facilities the yard provides: "seasonal menus for wildlife," natural and artificial cover, water for drinking and dunking, and other measures taken to attract furred and feathered friends. In addition, the owner is asked to list all the animals observed in the habitat during the previous year. In a letter to program applicants, N.W.F. Executive Vice President Thomas Kimball writes: "A nationwide network of these mini-refuges could demonstrate that people really can help wildlife win their...
...Derr and Peggi Andrlik's 140-ft. by 140-ft. lot is shared by 100 ducks, red foxes, squirrels, wood-chucks and a doe, as well as Pedro and Caspar, two pyrrhuloxias that have taken up residence 1,500 miles from their natural home in Mexico. A habitat in Thomasville, Ga., owned by the Robert Boissieres, abounds with shrubs, trees, vines, wild flowers and grasses; it has become a refuge for a wide variety of birds, including an occasional giant pileated woodpecker. Now that she has retired the lawnmower, says Habitat Hostess Ellen Mitchell of Reston...
...Some habitat owners with older properties, like Jim Franks of Santa Cruz, Calif., leave all their fruit and berries for their wild guests-which may include such nonfriends as skunks and snakes. "What the hell," says one wildlife friend, paraphrasing Robert Frost: "The land was theirs before it was ours...
Those who support the concept usually think in Utopian terms: happy habitat, happy citizens. Planners, architects and governments, notorious optimists, constantly envision a Better Future...