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This week 100 San Francisco boys are escaping the city's chilly August fogs for a week of fishing, swimming and hiking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They are not the sons of the middle class off with collegiate counselors; they are black, Mexican-American and Chinese youngsters of the city's ghettos -and their camping instructors are U.S. Marines...
...Marine Camp High Sierra proves successful, San Francisco authorities have their eye on other branches of the armed forces. There is talk of using Navy ships for cruises and setting up camps at Air Force flight schools...
...great final sentence in your report about the rattlesnakes of Pinole brings to mind a remark of John Muir's in his Sierra book about the poison ivy: "Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question, 'Why was it made?' goes on and on with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself...
Scandalous Act. The commission is sure that capitalism can coexist with conservation. To crusaders like Mike McCloskey, executive director of the Sierra Club, that idea is elusive and unrealistic. As he sees it, more logging, grazing and mining on public lands can only benefit the few at the expense of the many. Says former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall: "The report is a long labor that leaves you right back where you started from." Executive Director Thomas L. Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation is even blunter. "In 1930," he says, "such recommendations would have been unacceptable. In 1970, they...
...Sierra Club plans for recreational use of islands in Boston Harbor demonstrate another shade of citizen-serving thought. To provide "vital contact with a natural environment which is close" the club will develop Lovell's Island for hiking, arts and crafts work and other activities. Certainly anyone who's spent a hot two hours in a Sunday-in-July traffic jam should be enthusiastic about this project...