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...spraying during the last decade has been directed towards four different kinds of targets: mangrove forests, hardwood forests, strip spraying (along roads and canals) and crops...
Meselson said the objectives of the commission were to examine the inundated mangrove and hardwood forests that had been sprayed, look for medical side-effects among the South Vietnamese such as still births and birth defects, and examine the possibility of herbicides entering the food chain...
...more and more of the earth's bounty, troubling questions arise. Is it worth cutting the hardwood reserves of the Amazon River basin if the price is the destruction of the thin jungle soil? Should the oil under the North Sea be drilled at the risk of gravely endangering the beaches and wildlife of six nations? Can civilization's need for fuel and other materials be satisfied without despoiling the few wild areas left on earth...
America's only subtropical national park is a multitude of habitats-inland pine sloughs, vast saw grass savannahs, hardwood hammocks and coastal mangroves with myriad islands and canals. It is a refuge of 22 endangered species, including the bald eagle, osprey, snowy egret, Florida panther and alligator. Each year, more than a million visitors peer from trails and catwalks at the antics of exotic herons, bitterns and roseate spoonbills. They are mystified by the anhinga, a prehistoric bird that must spread and dry its wings after diving for fish, or drown from lack of natural-body-oil protection...
...mayor last week, he may well have noticed a symbol of change in Daley's plush office on the fifth floor of city hall. The swinging door that was once supposed to indicate Daley's accessibility to the people has been replaced by a thick hardwood portal that slides on steel tracks and can only be opened by a security guard or Daley's private secretary...