D0 TH BE * A \UsD*U B ONE B Uae alas 
Water Resources Development is 
treated by Brent Blackwelder, 
Washington represenative of the 
Environmental Policy Center and 
co-chairman, Citizen’s Committee 
against Channelization. He quotes 
Nathaniel Reed, Assistant Secretary 
of the Interior for fish, wildlife and 
parks, in testimony at a House of 
Representatives hearing: “It is dis- 
couraging for our biologists and 
field personnel to stand by helpless- 
ly and watch the wetlands resource 
succumb to the dredge bit or 
dragline bucket with little or no re- 
gard for the natural system . 
It has been the observation of the 
majority of the personnel that 
those agencies engaged in stream 
channelization activities are still 
largely paying nothing more than 
lip service to earnest environmen- 
tal protection.” 
On that subject Stewart Udall 
and Jeff Stansbury are reported to 
have written in their Los Angeles 
Times Syndicate column: “The 
White House does not wish to 
offend either the Southern con- 
gressmen who control funds for 
the Council on Environmental 
Quality and the Soil Conservation 
Service or the wealthy farmers who 
get big hidden subsidies from the 
U.S. taxpayers whenever the S.C.S. 
drains their marshlands.” 
George Alderson, legislative dir- 
ector of Friends of the Earth and 
coordinator for the Coalition 
Against the SST, is author of the 
section, Public Lands, which dis- 
cusses, among other topics, the 
important matters of mining, na- 
tional forests, national parks and 
Alaska natives’ land claims. He 
alleges that Nixon’s subservience to 
the lumber industry is demonstrat- 
ed by his promotion of the notor- 
ious Timber Supply Bill and his 
action after Congress failed to pass 
this measure when he instructed 
the Forest Service to increase their 
cut by the amount called for in the 
defeated bill. Rep. Saylor (Rep. Pa.) 
commented: “The effect of the 
President’s directions to the Agri- 
culture, Housing, and Interior Sec- 
retaries was to do by fiat what 
could not be done legislatively.” 
Covered in detail among many 
other environmental subjects are 
the Administration’s surrender on 
phosphate detergents; secret meet- 
ings of the National Industrial Pol- 
lution Control Council which con- 
sists mainly of big polluters; weak- 
ness demonstrated by the Council 
on Environmental Quality; Nixon’s 
favors to the lumber industry, 
shown not only by his promotion 
of the Timber Supply Bill, but by 
his veto of the plan to protect de 
facto wilderness, pending congres- 
sional consideration of permanent 
protection under the Wildnerness 
Act, and his opposition to clear- 
cutting moritorium proposals; his 
frantic promotion of the SST, the 
Tennessee-Tombigbee pork barrel 
and the Alaska pipeline; and the 
record on strip mining, air pollu- 
tion control funds and nuclear 
power. —Ray M. Barron 
OUR LIVING LAND 
Government Printing Office, 1971 
96 pp, $2.00 
Richly illustrated with color 
photographs and paintings, this 
Conservation Yearbook weighs the 
good and the bad that have come 
from man’s use of the American 
landscape, and probes the question 
of how to make amends for damage 
done. The articles in the Yearbook 
talk about our natural resources 
and how they can be saved. The 
opinions of experts and the results 
of surveys back up what is written. 
This is an excellent book for en- 
vironmentalists and for people who 
simply enjoy beautiful photographs 
of our country. (Order Item 55R 
for $2.00 from Public Documents 
Center, 5801 Tabor Avenue., Phila- 
delphia 19120.) 
