Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Angry shouts from Washington and Moscow, arguments between Republicans and Democrats, thunderous political conventions, ear-splitting Olympic extravaganzas, mines and missile attacks, noise and people and people making noise. The beaches are filled and the forests infiltrated, and even the high mountain passes have traffic jams of mobile homes. So come to the prairie and listen. Nobody goes there in August-except grasshoppers...
...night the mountain blazes cast an eerie red glow in the sky to the north of Helena, reminding residents of one of the region's worst forest fires, the Mann Gulch fire of 1949, which cost the lives of 13 fire fighters. "It looks like someone dropped the Bomb somewhere," said one resident. There were no precise estimates of the value of destroyed property and timber, but the damage totaled millions of dollars. Near Libby, in the northwest corner of the state, 16 barns and other farm buildings were consumed by a blaze along Houghton Creek in the Kootenai...
...create avalanches in the winter and mud slides in the summer. Salt scattered over ski runs to harden the snow now fouls water supplies, as do the tons of detergents from hotels and condominiums. Animals that need space, such as eagles, lynxes and hares, are disappearing. The contamination of mountain streams has put 70% of lower Bavaria's fish on the endangered list. And perhaps gravest of all, the forests, ravaged by the encroachments of civilization, are struggling for survival: according to one survey, some 45% of Bavaria's Alpine woods are sick...
...consequences of this sportive invasion are both visible and dispiriting. The main route up the Matterhorn has been worn as smooth as a dance floor by climbers and is currently closed to all but advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists...
...high birth rate but a high rate of immigration from rural areas. The Communist Chinese have "solved" this problem by making it illegal for peasants to move to the cities. Shanghai may have no "squatters living in shacks," but there are hundreds of millions of peasants in hill and mountain areas where conditions are far worse than those encountered in a Mexico City barrio...