Word: sierras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Park. The amendment added to it last week by a 24-11 vote was sponsored by Arizona's conservation-minded Morris Udall. Thus the measure might be expected to have the support of every environmental group in the nation. Instead, it has provoked anguished protests from both the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth. Says Sierra Club spokesman Brock Evans: "It's a disaster of the first rank for the national park system...
...environmental groups are wary of a clause in the amendment permitting land use for "residential and other community purposes." The plateau that the Indians want is, according to Sierra Club Lobbyist Jeffrey Ingram, "a fantastic piece of real estate." He envisions vacation condominiums on the reservation. William Byler of the Association on American Indian Affairs scoffs at this. He points out that tribal leaders have insisted they will allow no unsightly development and that the bill forbids any but "traditional use." Says he: "To suggest that the tribe will hand it over to developers is a slanderous attack...
Need Help. The Havasupai have even more formidable champions. Senator Edward Kennedy urged his House colleagues to pass the amendment because the Havasupai "are not going to build a dam, or put up a factory, or launch a tourist extravaganza." Senator Barry Goldwater said the Sierra Club has become "a closed society, a self-centered, selfish group, who care for nothing but ideas which they themselves originate and which fit only their personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because...
Even local Sierra Club members admit that the tribe cannot survive much longer on the canyon floor. If Congress does not move soon to relieve the Havasupais' lot, they say, the tribe will simply succumb to poverty and disease...
...Museum of Science is presenting a 20-year retrospective exhibit of Eliot Porter photographs in its Bradford Washburn Gallery. Porter, best known perhaps for his Sierra Club posters, is a master of the outdoors scene and his artistry is well attested to by the 70 color prints of landscapes which make up this show...