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...million acres in 39 states, is the most aggressive protection act since Jimmy Carter designated huge swaths of Alaskan wilderness off-limits to developers. Environmental lobbyists, already pleased with Clinton's record of land protection, are thrilled by his latest move. "This is a great moment in history," Ken Rait, director of the Heritage Forest Campaign, told the New York Times. "It's something for which our children will express gratitude...
...Rait is on a road to nowhere, and he's none too happy about it. Jouncing along in a Jeep Cherokee through the Southwest wilderness, he points with disgust at the freshly dug track he's following. It meanders into a streambed, emerges from the other side and then stops abruptly. In just one afternoon Rait, an environmentalist with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, will find several more such dead-end trails, ranging from a mere quarter mile to a few miles long. Not one of them goes anywhere at all. "They're cutting roads all over the place...
...however. Out-of-staters looking for a better life have flowed into places like Colorado and New Mexico, bringing concerns over development. Even as Utah's Hansen was pushing his bare-bones wilderness proposal, polls showed that a majority of his constituents wanted more wilderness set aside. Says Ken Rait of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: "He calls what he's doing 'The will of the West.' But which West is he talking about?'' For now, it's Hansen's idea of the West that is winning...
Loong and Mary E. Dibbern '92, the other social committee co-chair, said that concert organizers are now sending out feelers to Big Audio Dynamite, 10,000 Maniacs, the Indigo Girls, and Bonnie Rait...
Performing in Tercentenary Theater on Friday night will be famous folk singer Tom Rush '63, who will be joined by Joan Baez and Bonnie Rait, who attended Radcliffe from...