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... Service in Colorado offered for public sale the timber it had marked for cutting on 357 acres of public land at East Meadow Creek , on the western slope of the Gore Range . Bids on 4,300,000 board feet of timber , invited by newspaper ...
... Service in Colorado offered for public sale the timber it had marked for cutting on 357 acres of public land at East Meadow Creek , on the western slope of the Gore Range . Bids on 4,300,000 board feet of timber , invited by newspaper ...
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... Service rather than the National Park Service . The valley was a natural prospect for a ski resort , and preserva- tionist groups such as the Sierra Club did not oppose development of ski facilities . The Sierra Club assumed that a ...
... Service rather than the National Park Service . The valley was a natural prospect for a ski resort , and preserva- tionist groups such as the Sierra Club did not oppose development of ski facilities . The Sierra Club assumed that a ...
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... Service insisted there would be no pollution , no erosion , no damage to the giant sequoia trees through which the new access road would go , and no alienation of the public trust . It brushed aside the objection that Mineral King is a ...
... Service insisted there would be no pollution , no erosion , no damage to the giant sequoia trees through which the new access road would go , and no alienation of the public trust . It brushed aside the objection that Mineral King is a ...
Contents
An Introduction | 9 |
Rivers Dams and Floods | 27 |
Water Pollution and the Great Water Shortage | 49 |
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