Word: salmon
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...sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic Wildlife Range, the spawning beds of the Pacific salmon in the Misty Fjords along the state's southeast coast, the nesting grounds of the dwindling numbers of American bald eagles on Admiralty Island and the habitat of the whistling swan in the southwest...
Other environmental effects may be more subtle. One involves the numerous arctic streams that pass under both roads via culverts. These can speed up or slow down the water and disturb the salmon battling upstream each spring to spawn. Indeed, biologists say that there has already been a drop-off in the number of fish in streams intersecting the Haul Road. Gravel and dust can be another problem. Tossed onto the permafrost by car wheels, they cause the snow to melt early in the spring. Waterfowl then nest prematurely in these moist spots and lose their young to frost...
...Short of spending an entire vacation in Scotland, the Strategic Traveler can take a fast train north to the Highlands for several days of fishing, hunting, golfing, sightseeing and walking on the moors. The braw, bonny Scots pride themselves on their victuals: venison and wild game of all sorts, salmon, trout, mackerel and Aberdeen Angus beef, which they seem to cook better than the Sassenachs can in the south...
...pleasant. At hostelries like the converted Kinsale monastery at the mouth of the Bandon River (double room: $50), history is in the air, but the comforts are strictly modern. Some west coast castles and stately homes have been transformed into hotels with swimming pools and tennis courts. The salmon and trout, as they say, are beggin' to be caught. No self-respecting village is without its choice of pubs, often with regular folk singing and dancing. A double room in a country inn costs around...
...elected Helmut Kohl party chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's elections. After that, to stir support for C.D.U. candidates in upcoming European Parliament elections, a novel buffet of dishes from other European Community nations: smoked salmon from Denmark, Netherlands herring, Italian wine and, Gott im Himmel, the French dish-or dishes-three dancers who pranced about onstage wearing only G strings and nonaligned ostrich feathers. Kohl diplomatically said nothing about the surprise entree. But some other C.D.U.ers did. Harrumphed an anti-Kohlite who clearly recognized breasts...