Word: roam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Landscapers are replenishing their supply by buying mature trees from homeowners. The most sought-after palms were planted in the 1940s, when Los Angeles promoted the trees to boost its mystique. The palms have become hot property in more ways than one. Unscrupulous dealers roam neighborhoods at night, digging pygmy palms out of yards and grabbing potted ones from the fronts of landscape centers...
...Hyde founded the nonprofit Institute for Range and the American Mustang in order to create sanctuaries -- retirement homes of sorts -- where unadoptable wild horses could once again roam freely. He convinced BLM that with foundation and public funds he could establish a self-sustaining sanctuary within three years. IRAM's first project was a 12,600-acre sanctuary in the Black Hills of South Dakota that opened last year. Tourists pay $15 to view 300 mustangs running on high plateaus of ponderosa pine. The project makes Hyde smile. "The horses are finally getting over their depression," he says. "They...
Such sanctuaries could eventually save taxpayers $2.5 million a year. But they will never satisfy everyone with an opinion about wild horses. Animal- rights activists and Old West buffs decry any fettering of the mustangs' ability to roam the plains. Ranchers object that free-running herds pose threats to pastures and water that cattle need. "Most people feel there should be some place in the U.S. for wild horses because they're so important in our past," says Boyles. "But we recognize the range is only going to support so many. The two basic questions are, How many should...