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...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...
Ever since July 17 when lightning set a tree ablaze, a forest fire has been burning in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. On some days it rages across hundreds of acres of trees. On others it smolders slowly over an acre or two. By last week about 3,500 acres had been charred. Is the National Park Service concerned? Not really: its new policy -first tested in California in 1968 and now in effect in many of the U.S.'s heavily forested parks-is "Let 'em burn...
...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...
Laurance Rockefeller inherited two special interests from his father: conservation and medical research. Last week marked the 25th anniversary of his gift to the U.S. Government of 33,562 acres at Jackson Hole, Wyo. The land became Grand Teton National Park. Thanks to another gift from Laurance, there is also a 5,000-acre national park on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgins...