Word: parks
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There are still, however, some places where the tallgrass prairie remains nearly as the pioneers saw it--vast, rolling expanses reaching beyond the horizon. U.S. environmentalists would like to keep it that way, and so would the National Park Service. Last month Park Service Director William Penn Mott toured the proposed site for the nation's first Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve: 50,000 acres near Pawhuska, in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma. "You have a jewel here," he told ranchers and conservationists at a barbecue on the Foraker Ranch, one of the properties that could make up the preserve...
...bison and elk are virtually gone, and preserving what remains of the prairie has long been a challenge for conservationists. An effort to establish a tallgrass park at a site in Kansas foundered seven years ago because of local opposition. Ranchers were reluctant to surrender commercially exploitable land...
...Park Service now faces similar obstacles in Oklahoma. The Osage Indians, who own the mineral rights in Osage County (where some 15,000 wells produce 22,000 bbl. of oil a day), oppose the establishment of a park. Says George Tallchief, principal chief of the tribe: "It will make it prohibitive for independent oil producers to come in and drill." Local ranching interests are also unhappy about losing valuable grazing land, which they insist is already in good hands. "This is my heritage here," says Rancher Mark Freeman Jr. "Who in the hell do you think has kept this prairie...
...same time, this accuracy holds much of the play's charm. The players are believable as athletes, both in appearance and manner. Situated in the bullpen at Fenway Park, complete with green walls, the actors are fully clad in Red Sox uniforms. An especially nice touch is the plastering of bubble gum all over the bullpen. Each could pass for a ball player, and the lone-lefty, Ripper, conjures up images of Boston's beloved spaceman Bill...
Hold the joy for the ceremony. This is just part of a long, tough job. "Amy is such a skinny thing. So flat-chested," Marguerite has explained. "Nothing looked right." So Mother left her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and, with daughter in tow, journeyed to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, where she found Kleinfeld's and, at last, a suitable wedding dress...