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...outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan's Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly and steadily continued to develop what...
Whenever he can, Herman Murrah, 41, a wiry Mississippi conservation officer, climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck and follows the raised sand road that runs westward from the small community of Buzzard's Roost into the Pascagoula Tract, a 32,000-acre expanse of hardwood forest and bottom land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow...
Murrah and the thousands of Mississippians who use the Pascagoula Tract to fish, hunt, camp or just escape with their families for a weekend had been concerned about how much longer the wilderness oasis could survive the state's increasing industrialization. Now they need worry no longer. In a unique effort, Mississippi has not only preserved the Pascagoula, but set an example that other states could follow in safeguarding their own unspoiled areas...
...purchase of the tract safeguards a wide variety of exotic flora and fauna. Within its boundaries are cypresses so large that eight men can barely join hands around their trunks, huge stands of water tupelo and witch hazel and thick forests of hickory, iron wood and beech. Fish such as the Atlantic sturgeon and crystal darter thrive in the waters of the new preserve, which also provides one of the only known homes of the yellow-blotched sawback turtle, a rare species that sports two humps on its back like a camel...
Even if the land were declared not to be a park, the presence of a playground on the tract would prevent the land from being used for building unless the playground land was declared excess by the courts...