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...taken by Con Ed to build a pump-storage facility if the residents of the area lose their fight to keep the company out. Harvard's only contribution to this conservation battle has been President Pusey's 1970 letter to The New York Times aligning the University with the Scenic Hudson Preservation Committee...
...local actions have revolved primarily around the South Dakota reservations and the Black Hills. Of all the Indian treaties, AIM points to the 1868 Laramie treaty, which supposedly guarantees Indian control over the Black Hills. But the United States, through a series of shady maneuvers, took this scenic land from the Indian grasp...
Route 16 winds slowly through South Dakota's Black Hills, meandering leisurely toward the Pine Ridge reservation and Wounded Knee. The road is the same one that Sitting Bull traveled on his way to Canada in the 1880s, and it goes through some of the most scenic land in the United States...
...Augusta, Me., last week, the state legislature began considering a bill that would control industrial development of the scenic coastline to prevent environmental damage. The measure has already stirred heated controversy throughout the state, but it has drawn little attention elsewhere, although one section of the bill may have effects far beyond the shores of Maine. It bans the establishment of deepwater oil ports anywhere in the state except Portland, where the existing port is already operating at capacity...
...Provide $20 million to expand the nation's system of wild and scenic rivers...