Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene is the Sierra Club International Assembly in Ann Arbor, Mich., and the players are Bill Oliver and Glen Waldeck, the poets of preservation and the unofficial troubadours of the U.S. environment movement. All across the country, at conferences and campfires and on campuses, the two minstrels denounce development and pollution and plead for the rescue of endangered animals. Their music never hits the Top 40, but many a member of the Sierra Club or the National Audubon Society can hum their tunes and recite their lyrics by heart. To thousands of nature lovers, Oliver and Waldeck are to environmentalism...
...audience generally gets into the act. Are there any other performers who stir a crowd to let out coyote yelps? And when Waldeck climbs up on a chair and incites Sierra Clubbers to join the "Woodpecker Rebellion," they seem ready to lie down in front of bulldozers...
...same. Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan told oil-industry representatives last week that they had suddenly acquired a serious image problem, and EPA chief Reilly asserted that "we will not move forward if we have any significant concerns that have not been resolved." Anti-drilling lobbyists are increasingly hopeful. Says Sierra Club conservation director Douglas Scott: "This is much bigger than syringes on the shores of New Jersey. It's an important political event...
...deadly one for commercial aviation. A twin-engine commuter plane crashed in heavy rains in Mexico's Sierra Madre; none of the 21 people aboard survived. In Hong Kong a downpour was also blamed when a Chinese government-owned CAAC jetliner skidded while landing, then plunged into Victoria Harbor. Seven people were killed...
When God created the American West, to paraphrase Mark Twain, he provided plenty of whiskey to drink and just enough water to fight over. In Twain's day, the Forty-Niners feuded with fists and pistols over who could divert which Sierra streams to separate gold from gravel. In the teens and Roaring Twenties, thirsty young Los Angeles brashly laid claim to a snow-fed mountain river, piped it 230 miles south to the city and dispatched armed guards to protect the aqueduct from outraged locals wielding dynamite...