Category: Environment

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Elephant

The ‘Elephant Slums’ of Tsavo National Park

Voi, Kenya Probably no other controversy has done more to divide the ranks of conservationists around the world or more to cripple ecological research in East Africa than that involving the elephants of Tsavo. Because of pressures outside the huge 8,300 square -mile Tsavo National

Photo by Bob Bowman

New Burlington, Ohio: When a Town Dies

February 28, 1973   Prologue   All history, granted a wide enough perspective, is merely irony. In the paleozoic era, New Burlington, Ohio, was very largely limestone, at the bottom of the sea. Later, it was forest: the durable oak, the sweet maple, the sassafras,

Three days later the refugees were still camped on the dike waiting for the water to recede. They were short of food because they'd cached their supplies below the new highwater mark and – although they'd been visited by the Governor, Secretary of the Air Force, the Red Cross and numerous tourists – no one had offered them so much as a cup of soup.

Galena – How To Win A Flood?

Galena, Alaska June 27, 1972   Today the Athabascan Indian village of Galena is the goingest, growingest village on the Yukon. Its residents enjoy a unique prosperity gained through plentiful fishing and hunting and high employment opportunity. The future looks brighter still, and it’s hard

(Photos courtesy of Alyeska Pipeline) Simulated Pipeline – Most of the animals detoured, a few used ramps and underpasses and several crawled under the fence.

Caribou Versus Pipeline: Can They Take it in Stride?

Anchorage, Alaska March 19, 1972   The Pipeline Will Do For The Caribou What The Railroad Did For The Buffalo! That’s the theme of a current conservationist poster and, if the proposed trans-Alaskan oil pipeline does block caribou migration, it bodes a cold and hungry