Word: rangeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, too, Hickel's critics look askance at the Governor's fight against a ruling by outgoing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall blocking title to 262 million acres of federal rangeland that Alaska had earmarked as its own as part of a 1958 statehood land grant. Udall has insisted on holding the ranges in escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope...
From the mucky waters of Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, the Houston Ship Channel sluggishly winds 50 miles into southern Texas. From both banks, scrubby rangeland and salt marshes stretch to the horizon, relieved occasionally by a decrepit farmhouse or a forlorn oil rig. Then suddenly, around one of the canal's innumerable bends, a $2 billion complex of oil refineries and chemical plants erupts on the landscape. Soon the inland-bound passenger spies in the distance what appears to be a skyscraper, then several skyscrapers, then a full metropolitan skyline. It might be a mirage shimmering...
...enormously before the first flights begin. Their urgent concern now is to prepare launching facilities with which to make those flights. Technical direction of the program will eventually come from the Manned Spacecraft Center, 36 miles southeast of Houston. At present, NASA's 1,600-acre tract of rangeland (formerly part of the J. M. West ranch) looks like a playground for bulldozers. Little actual building has started, but eventually the area will have laboratories, office buildings, and massive test communications and control facilities...
...partnership with Humble Oil Co., which is the major U.S. subsidiary of Jersey Standard, the Del E. Webb Corp. will build a new community with an anticipated population of 25,000 on 30,000 acres of Texas rangeland between Houston and Galveston. The two companies expect to spend $25 million a year for the next 15 years to put up apartments, factories, churches and shopping centers in the shadow of NASA's manned space flight laboratory. Humble will supply better than 50% of the cash and all the land. Webb will furnish the balance of the bankroll...