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...much logging in the national forests. Their suits therefore seek strict enforcement of the service's original charter. The Organic Act of 1897 specifically permits logging in national forests-but only of "dead, matured or large growth" trees that have been individually marked for cutting. In 1973 the Izaak Walton League sued to halt clear-cutting in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest. Since clear-cutting means the chopping down of every single tree in a given area, including young ones, the court decided against the Forest Service...
With such distinguished observers and enthusiasts, it was only a question of time before the sport acquired its own philosopher. Izaak Walton, a draper by trade, was a biographer by avocation, but his chronicles have been forgotten. Only the discursive jottings on his favorite hobby have endured...
Once it was solely an occupation to for Eskimos and masochists. Hunkering down beside holes in icebound rivers and lakes, in temperatures that would give a seal the sniffles, the Izaak Waltons of midwinter would spend hours shivering and waiting for the tug on a line that told them a pike or a perch had been hooked...
...decision, handed down late last year by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, decided in Favor of the Federal Power Commission and Consolidated Edison. The petitioners--Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the City of New York, the Sierra Club and its Atlantic Chapter. Wilderness Society, the Izaak Walton League of America, National Audubon Society and the National Parks and Conservation Association--are seeking review of the case by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Platform Committee hoopla came over the appearances of the presidential candidates and their top supporters. But during its preconvention week the committee, chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, also took testimony from spokesmen for some 170 organizations, ranging from Americans for Democratic Action to the Izaak Walton League and the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia...