Word: redwoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONSERVATION. To ensure Americans "a sane environment," the President presented to Congress the most exhaustive conservation blueprint ever devised. He requested an initial $10 million for a new Redwood National Park in California, plus funds for additional parks, seashores and hiking trails...
...adjourn." Then, without any excuse, he resumed his little lecture to the press. He does "get a little bit sensitive," he said, when he sees presidential decisions reported that he never heard of. There was a U.P.I. item he had seen that very morning telling "how I eliminated the Redwood Forest bill from the State of the Union Message at the last minute. The fact that it had never been submitted to the State of the Union could have been ascertained." When he does make decisions, and they differ from the premature press version, he said, "some of you reporters...
...Thousands of acres in Northern California bristle with new redwood forests on lands formerly clear-cut and burned. To give the impression, as you did, that coastal redwoods are 2,000 years old and 370 feet high is as misleading as to say Americans are 6 feet 4 and weigh 200. The redwood forest industry of Northern California has been complimented again and again by the respected Save The Redwoods League for its adherence to good forestry practices and its cooperation in preserving superlative redwood groves...
...TIME said some redwoods are 2,000 years old, cited the conservationists' concern for only these exceptional trees, was well aware of and applauds the responsible operations of most of the country's redwood industry...
...ever-growing building industry must have lumber; conservationists cherish forests. Here also the outcome is a compromise-the Government allows selective lumbering in the national forests, the lumber companies replant trees. But in cases of truly virgin forest and the privately owned California redwood tracts, the savers and the cutters are at irreconcilable loggerheads. The Sierra Club and other conservationists insist, with reason, that there is no way to replant a 2,000-year-old redwood or a forest never before touched by human industry...