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...Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who has drafted a controversial bill that would turn the Vineyard, plus neighboring Nantucket and the outlying Elizabeth Islands, into the Nantucket Sound Islands Trust. Kennedy's bill would divide the islands into three kinds of development zones: virtually untouchable "forever wild" areas, "scenic preservation" lands where building would be strongly controlled, and less severely limited "town planned" regions. All would be administered by a trust under federal supervision...
...report acknowledged the possible environmental dangers that Storm King opponents had been citing for years--the possibility of massive fish kills, potential danger to the Catskill Aqueduct which supplies 40 per cent of New York City's water, damage to scenic beauty...
...letter to The New York Times, Pusey stated that he and the trustees of Black Rock Forest "are deeply concerned with preserving intact this important scientific area. Unless Consolidated Edison can demonstrate that there is no alternative to this radical proposal for altering the scenic beauty and scientific value of a largely unspoiled section of the Hudson River Valley, we wish to ally ourselves with The Times and with the individuals and organizations who are protesting the plans of the Consolidated Edison Company. It is our hope that an acceptable alternative can be found...
...late as 1970, he reaffirmed this position in a two-sentence letter to a member of Scenic Hudson, which from the beginning has been the Storm King project's most active opposition. "There has been no change in Harvard's attitude about Black Rock Forest," Pusey wrote. "We have no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposes proposed...
...RECOMMENDATIONS brought immediate reaction from Scenic Hudson's Vandivert, who charged that the University is "ignoring its responsibility as a landowner...