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...that the worth of land simply cannot be measured in dollars and cents. "The idea that man can assess the value of a piece of land doesn't take into account what we've learned about ecology in the last 40 years," says Maitland Sharp, conservation director of the Izaak Walton League. To be sure, there is no way to calculate the dollar value of the view from a mountaintop, the solitude of a forest or the airy freedom provided by a piece of open land near a crowded city. There is no way to put a price...
...neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard arcana and Welsh superstitions belong on the shelf alongside Dickens. Another, smaller book could be made of his observations: "The stomach is really the basis of nationalism." "The infallible test for a gentleman is to drop in on him unfed, and see what...
...trying to provide a way for an outraged public to express itself to the federal officials closest to them," explains Executive Director Michael McCloskey. Other groups disagree with this tactic. "We've got to go after specific programs," says Jack Lorenz, executive director of the 50,000-member Izaak Walton League of America. "If we can't go after the program, we shouldn't be in business...
...feet long, fashioned with snow fences. In it waits a squad of small boys cradling large fish nets. As each chicken takes flight squawking in protest and spraying feathers, a boy dashes along its trajectory to net the flyer at its point of touchdown with the skill of an Izaak Walton landing a plump trout...
Sturgill had plenty of allies. A grassroots movement by the farmers, shopkeepers and craftsmen of the two counties enlisted the support of the influential Izaak Walton League of America and won the backing of North Carolina officials right up to the state house. The general assembly voted unanimously to incorporate the 26-mile stretch of the New River in Ashe and Alleghany counties into the state's scenic river system and turn it into a park. Secretary of the Interior Thomas Kleppe agreed to take the same section into the eight-year-old National Wild and Scenic Rivers System...