Word: tetons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state's highest designation-whose streams teem with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. Relatively few visitors have discovered the Bighorn River south of Billings, Mont., which encompasses mountains, upland prairie, desert and wetlands and the Pryor Mountains, with prehistoric caves to explore. In Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, the broad Snake River, bounded by stands of aspen and lodgepole pine, affords both white-water rapids boating and lazy, meandering raft rides. Backpackers can trek into some of the ruggedest terrain in the Rockies...
...land is richer through the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, euphimisms for preserves for recreational vehicles. Fecund beasts, they spill across the blacktop in strained, sluggish twists, painting darkly on the snow-rimmed shoulders...
...industrial development has produced heedless, disorderly growth in such once quiet towns as Rock Springs and Gillette. Poorly controlled strip mining for coal threatens to ravage the ranch lands in the Powder River Basin. Hathaway also condoned the killing of golden eagles and favored building a jetport in Grand Teton National Park. Neither is a happy precedent, since the Interior Secretary is responsible for protecting U.S. wildlife and the national parks. Some 20 environmental groups were aghast at this record and immediately protested Hathaway's Cabinet nomination...
...need not look far to see why the prospect of Stanley Hathaway as Interior Secretary frightens those who care about this country's environment. As governor, Hathaway consistently opposed the philosophy and programs of the Department of Interior. He supported extending an airport runway into Grand Teton National Park...
...continuing blaze in a remote part of Grand Teton Park represents the first public test of the Park Service's new policy-and many citizens do not like it. Mrs. Miles Seeley, a longtime summer resident of nearby Jackson, Wyo., has begun a petition drive to control what she calls the new "scorched earth policy." Says she: "They have burned up one of the most beautiful areas in Teton County." And almost as bad, the fire is causing massive air pollution by sending carbon monoxide and ash into the atmosphere...