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Some years back, Robert Scott, of the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies in Missoula, proposed the Big Open, a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of struggling central Montana that would be linked cooperatively by public and private owners into a wildlife range for 300,000 buffalo, deer, antelope and elk. His figures suggested that on the average, the 3,000 people living there would make more tending to tourists and hunters than from ranching and farming. Writer Douglas Coffman, who helped Scott, saw even more: a chance to recapture a bit of the original American heart, something brave and wild...
...islands of primeval beauty, parks from Hawaii to North Carolina are being overrun with nonnative plants and animals, virtually all of them introduced, inadvertently or on purpose, by man. These "exotic threats" have become, officials say, the most serious danger facing the 323,750 sq. km (125,000 sq. mi.) national park system...
Most Denver residents welcome the 52-sq.-mi. project, not only to ease air- traffic congestion but also to provide an economic stimulant to a city that has been nearly paralyzed since the oil bust of the mid- 1980s. When Pena first ran for office in 1983, he opposed the new airport, advocating instead an expansion of Denver's Stapleton International Airport. But after he was elected, Pena became a supporter of the popular project. Throughout 1984, as Denver secretly negotiated with neighboring Adams County for a new site, M.D.C. and Silverado quietly began buying up farmland that would eventually...
...Jewish state. A stranger proffers hard-line Israeli logic: "Look, wars have consequences. This is a violent and dislocating century that has created millions of refugees all over the world. There are more than 200 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, occupying 5 million sq. mi. There are 3.8 million Israeli Jews on a tiny sliver of land. The Arabs have tried in war after war to destroy Israel. The Jews have prevailed. What do you expect from them? Besides, what law of history says that a people aspiring to be a nation will have a state...
...Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed an agreement to abolish border checks for travelers and their luggage. The accord will go into effect in 1992. When it does, the internal frontiers shared by the five countries, including a newly unified Germany, will be partly dissolved, creating a 373,766-sq.-mi. passport-free territory informally dubbed Schengenland...