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...problems end there. Developments on steep slopes often are served by a single access road that by itself alters the natural flow of moisture. Moreover, with only one road for access, any subdivision can become a dangerous firetrap. "Many developers seem not to realize that fire runs uphill faster than on the flat," says Oscar Schmunk, deputy forester. Even now, the slopes are occasionally marked by the lonely stone chimneys of burned-out homes. The fire fighters call them "tombstones." They predict that within five years, if the present rush to live on the slopes continues, Colorado will have disastrous...
...horizon, bringing winter darkness that will last into January. The city lies wrapped in a frigid cocoon of Arctic night. Beached boats of varying sizes dot the snow-covered ice pack that runs along the shore of the Chukchi Sea. That is the limit of Alaska's North Slope, the last land between America and the North Pole...
...critics quickly asked: Who wants 375 million acres of "icebergia," good only for a few "wretched fish"-even at $7.2 million, or 2? an acre? The answer is now plain: everyone. Most Alaskans see the state as a treasure house of minerals, including the huge North Slope oil reserves on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Ardent conservationists yearn to protect as much as possible of America's last great wilderness. But standing in the way of fulfilling anyone's wishes was a knotty legal hitch...
...select 80 million acres of some of the loveliest land in the world for national parks, forests and wildlife refuges. For the state, the bill spells out a bonanza of a different kind. Alaska has already set aside for state development 26 million acres, including some on the North Slope. The bill now frees state officials to choose another 77 million acres, and they are sure to favor areas that are rich in natural resources...
Most important to Alaska's economy, the bill in effect removes a barrier to the proposed $2 billion trans-Alaska oil pipeline from the North Slope fields to the ice-free port of Valdez. The oil companies have been desperate to get on with the job; costs of waiting have been estimated at $400,000 per day. The big question now is whether the 789-mile-long pipeline can be built with sufficient safeguards to protect Alaska's environment...