Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawn to the coastline, especially to the relatively unspoiled Pacific littoral. From San Diego's golden beaches to Bellingham's chilly inlets, home builders and industries want shoreline property. Can the coastline survive the pressures of pollution and development? TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton toured California, Washington and Oregon to find the answer. Her report...
Environmentally progressive Oregon seems on the verge of solving one of its biggest coastal-pollution problems. Governor Tom McCall recently restricted the number of logs that could be stored on waters around timber-processing and pulp plants. The new policy is designed to reduce the bark and debris that, as they decompose, consume precious oxygen and thereby choke marine life. Says McCall's environmental chief, L.B. Day: "We think we can start harvesting oysters in Coos Bay in a couple of years...
...creation of Yellowstone in 1872, Congress has step by step pioneered in establishing what is surely the world's greatest system of national parks-with tremendous new parks yet to be selected in Alaska. The system embraces the incense cedars and sapphire waters of Crater Lake in Oregon, the Great Smoky Mountains' misty rills in Appalachia, the giant cathedrals of California's redwoods, Arizona's mighty Grand Canyon, Maine's sparkling Acadia. Each park was chosen for its beauty and grandeur and preserved intact forever for public "enjoyment...
Nebraska 77. Army 7. Oklaboma 68. Oregon 3. Tennessee 45. Wake Forest 6 Southern Cal 55. Illinois...
...choice between here and Portland, Oregon, so it wasn't much of a choice really," Jabbar said. "Those were the only places that taught Arabic in the summer...