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CONSERVATION NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL FRONT 
DDT Ban — The Department of Agriculture has placed a ban on the use of DDT in residential areas, and is considering 
a ban on DDT entirely. The Department is also reviewing the use of other persistent pesticides. 
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The Jetport in the Everglades is still uncertain. Although the main jetport probably will not be built, the training strip 
is in operation and so long as there is an airstrip in the Everglades, a good land acquisition program is not instituted, the 
threat of a major jetport will remain. The National Audubon Society is urging the removal of the training strip. 
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The Alaskan Oil Strike remains unsettled and the problem of transporting the oil is still the major stumbling block. 
The supertanker ‘’Manhattan’’ successfully negotiated the northwest passage, but suffered a large hole in one of her 
storage tanks. (Editor’s Note — Meanwhile the largest oil tanker in the world, built by the Japanese for the Shell Oil Co., 
sank, on her second voyage, off the coast of Dakar. Her storage tanks were fortunately empty.) 
The pipeline concept for transporting oil, also appears to be running into trouble. A House Committee recently visited 
the Alaskan tundra and was impressed by the fragile nature; therefore they are putting off releasing the land for the 
pipeline. 
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State’s Rights over Wildlife — A bill to give the individual states greater power in governing hunting and fishing is 
slipping through Congress. This doesn’t sound too bad, but a closer reading reveals that the state would have jurisdiction 
over federal lands, and could, if they chose, permit hunting in our National Parks! (S. 1232). 
John Duerr, 
Conservation Committee 
ENDANGERED SPECIES BILL FINALLY PASSES 
Upon the provisions of this bill the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to compile a list of species whose 
interstate shipment or importation is forbidden. This may be more difficult than it sounds, because certain species 
may be at the brink of extinction in one country and fairly plentiful in another. Even the ‘“‘Red Data Book” 
compiled by International Union for the Conservation of Nature fails to distinguish the status of regional animal 
populations. 
In 1967, 22 million pounds of animal skins went through U.S. Customs. These included 115,458 ocelot skins, 
35,748 otters, and 970,809 deer and antelope pelts. 

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LEWIS AND CLARK PARK ENLARGED BY CORPS GIFTS 
The Lewis and Clark State Park near Granite City has been enlarged by a gift of 168 acres of land from the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers. Because of periodic flooding, no extensive developments are planned and the park will be left in its 
natural state. A small monument will be erected on the site from which the two explorers departed on their expedition in 
1804. 
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PRE—SOAK LAUNDRY PRODUCTS POSE DANGER — In an article in ‘‘Kansas Water News”, two civil engineering 
professors report that Boron is ‘‘a common component, in more than minor concentrations, in almost all these products” 
and that the element may have “‘rather dramatic and detrimental effects on some irrigated crops’’. It is feared that the 
Boron concentration will increase with water re-use as it is not removed in treatment processes. 

