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...Dooling is only warming up. It seems that Killigan's son Michael, Boone's idealistic friend, has gone missing while on Peace Corps duty in Sierra Leone. The scene shifts to the African outback, and the reader worries for a chapter or two that Dooling intends to serve up the traditional wise and ! mysterious natives of white-man-in-Africa fiction who look on gravely as the palefaces disintegrate...
...slightly easier to encroach upon the places where they live. Activities that threaten their habitats -- logging, for example, or other development -- will still be subject to review, though the process will probably be less stringent and enforcement less aggressive. Says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club: "The signal is that there can be more flexibility now, not that it's open season...
Guerrilla theater note, environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...
...Sierra Club cutups are not the most impudent manipulators of bad U.S. mine law. New techniques for extracting bullion from low-grade ore have touched off a little-noticed gold rush in the West, devastating huge areas, often at high-altitude sites that almost inevitably pollute the headwaters of rivers. A worst example in the making, environmentalists fear, is a gold mine that Noranda Inc., a big Canadian firm operating through a subsidiary of a subsidiary called Crown Butte Mines, intends to operate in fragile Montana high country 2.5 miles from the northeast corner of Yellowstone Park and entirely surrounded...
...recent ruling by Federal Court Judge Charles E. Richey, requiring that an environmental impact statement must be drafted before NAFTA can be presented to Congress for ratification, may prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the groups (Sierra Club, Friends Of The Earth and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen who filed the suit...