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...Nearly 200,000 acres of forest were burned last summer, and Italia Nostra estimates that at least one of every ten fires-especially on valuable land around resorts like Portofino -was set by landowners or prospective buyers. So blatant is the ruin of "protected" space that the Mayor of Pescasseroli, a town in the Abruzzi National Park, issued permits for speculative hotels and villas that involved the felling of 120,000 trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Can Italy be Saved from Itself? | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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