Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parks are a challenge for the sportsman. Mountain climbers can test their endurance...
...World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado for a 277-mile run or trek into Texas' Big Bend National Park and try taking kayaks down the sinuous stretches...
Beer cans and candy wrappers disfigure many mountain paths. Sounds familiar to the city pierce the silence. "I can't understand these people with their big mobile homes with generators and all the stuff," lamented Hal Stein, a construction company supervisor from Huntington Beach, Calif., during a visit to Yosemite. "They come up here, watch TV with a beer in their hand, look out the window and say, 'Ain't it pretty...
These actions have triggered predictable protests. "A permit to hike!" snorted one angry Appalachian Mountain Clubber when told he needed to check with a Ranger before trying a favorite trail. "Next they'll tell me I need a license to breathe." But the action is essential. By 1979 the park service expects 302 million people to be visiting the National Parklands. Unless steps are taken now to preserve these wonderlands of nature, there may be a lot less of them for later visitors to enjoy...
...Astronomers know that stars, and possibly entire solar systems, are constantly being born in the womblike gas clouds of interstellar space (TIME cover, Dec. 27). Now, they may have a chance to observe a delivery. Scientists from the University of Arizona and NASA'S Ames Research Center at Mountain View, Calif., announced last week that they have identified a discshaped object in the constellation Cygnus that is not only an evolving star, but could well be a sun in the process of forming its own planets. Their discovery could furnish scientists with an opportunity to study planetary formation...