Word: restorationism
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Now the mountains are fighting back--with a little help from their friends. The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, a coalition of private mountain-loving groups, along with the Forest Service and other public agencies, has targeted 35 of the 54 peaks for restoration. Every weekend a small army of volunteers heads...
But even Los Angeles, with all its other-worldly glitz and shabby 1920s glamour has some characteristics of Smalltown, U.S.A. Witnessing the hundreds who turned out to watch the fireworks in the stands of Valley College stadium made this cynical place seem a little more apple-pie American. That was...
Other Miccosukee moves are less pleasing to environmentalists. Besides building a casino on the Everglades' eastern edge, the tribe has sided with property holders in a disputed 8.5-sq.-mi. area a few miles to the south. There, some 1,400 landowners--many of them Cuban exiles--are resisting local...
The Miccosukees have proved to be some of the quickest draws on the peninsula. This week President Clinton is scheduled to submit to Congress an $8 billion, 20-year plan to restore the Everglades, the most massive environmental project ever undertaken in the U.S. Native Americans are usually cast as...
Byerly Hall, the home of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, is already cloaked in scaffolding as part of a restoration and renovation project to preserve the building's historical character. The building has been designated a historic building by the Cambridge Historical Commission.