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Sodbusting, the ripping up or overturning of marginal, native grasslands in the West and Midwest [June 27], is one of the greatest environmental rapes of this nation's land. This conversion of the topsoil to the wrong side up, as the Indians call it, will yield a fast buck...
Admissions officials said they were not worried about the decline is the overall number of applications, saying that with the high cost of college, marginal candidates were most likely not sending in their applications. "We're noticed absolutely no change in the quality of study." Fitzsimmons said.
Cannon recently angered the White House with a Page One report that the President had been "rambling" and "confused" in briefing a handful of reporters. But Cannon insisted, "I care about him. I don't ever want to take a cheap shot at him." He thinks Reagan gets the...
Earlier this month 500-h.p. diesel tractors, brand-named Big Bud 525 and Steiger Panther, pushed 60-ft.-wide chisel plows into the gentle prairie around the hamlet of Winnett, Mont., quickly transforming what once was Wayne Bratten's 28,000-acre ranch into a raw wound of overturned...
Critics of sodbusting, as the increasingly common practice of slicing grazing lands into wheat farms is called, say that most of the marginal land of the Great Plains cannot support commercial exploitation. With less than 20 inches of precipitation a year, the region is semiarid. These marginal soils, where they...