Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon you get the feeling-an illusion, really-that you don't really need the luxuries of civilization, or its arbitrary restraints. Once, backpacking along the John Muir Trail in California's Sierra Nevada, I left the path and bushwhacked across the high country for a day. It was a foolish idea. I was inexperienced, unsure of where I was heading, unprepared for bad weather. Climbing over huge boulders that ancient glaciers had dropped like pebbles along the timber line, I became terrified. What if I broke a leg or got lost? Miles of wilderness surrounded me. When...
...President of Sierra Leone's creation of a "Medal of the Mosquito" [May 21] because the pest kept the white man from permanently settling in his country prompts me to remind him that the mosquito quite happily infected white and black. It was the hated white man, however, who brought the cure for malaria to Sierra Leone and indeed to all of Africa. This cure was enjoyed by blacks as well...
Although the interpretation of "significant" remains to be thrashed out, the decision was a far-reaching achievement for the Sierra Club and three other groups, which brought the suit against the Environmental Protection Agency...
...court essentially commanded that the nation's air-from Maine to the wide open West-be kept as clean as it is now. One particular target on the Sierra Club's list: an enormous complex of coal-burning power plants suggested for Wyoming and Montana. Any such development will now have to maintain the quality of the big sky country's air, already threatened by mining and other industries...
Paul Brooks, L.H.D., director of the Sierra Club. [He] helped educate millions who would otherwise define birds as pigeons, flowers as dandelions, and wildlife as rats...