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...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...
...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...
...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. Though the Museum has done a poor job of mounting and lighting these photographs, nothing can really dull the impact of Porter's sensuous colors or his ability to capture the unique detail...
...then he has become one of the most respected photographers and teachers in America, laden with honors and pursued by collectors. (His own selection of his work, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, will be published by New York Graphic Society in September.) Adams, who joined the Sierra Club in 1920, has also had a substantial role in spreading the gospel of ecology and conservation...