february 7, 1972/the journal/page eleven
Surveying the
National Plunder
(Reprinted from Conservation News, january 15, 1972.)
--Smokey the Bear's stepdaddy says that Smokey is doing only half of
his job. The former director of the New Mexico Dept, of Game and Fish
and a well-known poet, Elliot S. Baker, who was the man originally
tesponsible for donating the cub to the U.S. Forest Service, says that the
original intent was that Smokey's life be dedicated to wildlife conservation
as well as fire prevention. "Most unfortunately the U.S. Forest Service has
through the years ninety percent of the time ignored the wildlife
conservation provision."
■-St. Louis University's School of Law and the Underwater Research
mstitute are co-sponsoring an Environmental Communication Workshop in
St. Louis on Feb. 25-27, 1972. Contact Environmental Communication
Workshop, School of Law, St. Louis University, St. Louis Missouri, 63108
'Or information.
--Two years ago, angry Spanish workers clashed with police in a protest
^inst dirty air-two were killed and several others were injured. Although
^oce that time, air pollution has made the headlines in Madrid, Barcelona,
^aragoza, and nearly everywhere else where Spain has industry and traffic,
ottle has been done. Bilbao, the "Pittsburgh of Spain", is almost invisible
00 a smokey day. A recent provincial study showed that five of every 12
porkers who fail to report to work do so because of respiratory problems,
^nd 13 of every 30 workers declared invalids due to work have illnesses
tooted in respiratory problems.
"In a petition to the FCC, the FTC has joined the National Wildlife
cderation and other public interest groups in urging that broadcasters be
^guired to grant free air time to those who want to challenge claims
made by commercial advertising. "Advertising today is largely a one-way
^°ld the FCC, so advertisers have "enormous power to
th consumer welfare." Examples of commercials cited that would lend
hemselves easily to counter ads include ads by companies claiming their
products contribute to solving ecological problems and ads for detergents
"'hich may be viewed as contributing to water pollution.
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-A four-day course in game and fish management for conservation lay
leaders and natural resource administrators is scheduled for Colorado State
University from February 14-18, 1972. For information contact Prof.
Dwight R. Smith, Dept, of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80521, Tel. 303, 493-6678.
-The 37th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference is
expected to follow the NWF into Mexico City's Hotel Camino Real on
March 12-15, 1972. Further information on the conference is available
from the Wildlife Management Institute, 709 Wire Bldg., Washington, D.C.,
20005.
-A moratorium on all effluent discharge permits has been declared by
the Army Corps of Engineers until the Federal government decides how to
respond to restrictions ordered by Federal District Judge Aubrey E.
Robinson, Jr. Robinson ruled that all discharges into non-navigable
waterways are illegal and barred the government from legalizing them with
discharge permits. The government may not even issue permits for
navigable water discharge, Robinson said, unless it first prepares an
environmental impact statement for each permit application. The
moratorium, however, will probably not affect the nearly 20,000 industry
applicants who are expected to continue dumping as usual.
- Results of a survey taken by the International Association of Chiefs
of Police, Inc. show that an estimated 24,520 persons were arrested for
littering in the U.S. in 1970. The median fine for the 18,705 persons
convicted was only $14.54
-Thirty-six student Environmental Investigation Units are being prepared
by the National Wildlife Federation and the Minnesota Environmental
Science Center for classroom use for grades 1-12. A few of the units
presently available include Plants in the Classroom, Vacant Lot Studies,
Differences in Living Things, Shadows, Wind, Snow and Ice, and Man's
Habitat-The City. Write to NWF for orders and further information.
-City planners of the future will have to reconcile human needs with
the demand for faster traffic flow and more industrial space according to a
National Park Service scientist, Theodore W. Sudia, in a newly-issued
Interior Department publication. "Man/Nature/City". The publication is the
first in an urban ecology series being produced by the National Park
Service. It is available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402.
- What's good for the moose in Maine, isn't neces^rily good for the
deer. The state's moose population has experienced a slight boom, from
the mere 3,700 that existed in 1951 to the over 15,000 that now roam
the back country. The revival of the moose is seen as a result of the
regrowth of pole timber. The whitetail deer, however, "has been hurt by
the regrowth past the stage where they can browse on the hardwoods, and
they're really taking a beating from the cutting of Maine cedar swamps"
(used in the construction of decorative cedar fences).
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