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Show Park Service Report ? Space Around Us Should Not Be Taken for Granted Space can be the most valuable commodity in a National Park. Visitors from the cities appreciate this. Yet, here in Southeastern Utah where we have so much of it, we tend to take it for granted at least the kind wo breathe and walk around in. There are many kinds of space living space, standing stand-ing space, seeing space, hearing space, breathing space. Some kinds are disappearing dis-appearing everywhere. For example, where can you listen and not hear the blatt of heavy trucks or a sonic boom? Where can you watch and not see some sample of uglification? a run-down road sign advertising advertis-ing a business long gone, or some shiny neon nightmare? night-mare? Or where can you No wonder: 25 micrograms is an amount almost invisible invis-ible to the naked eye. Yet this amount will produce an effect in most people. Classed as a hallucinogen and psychedelic which mean mind-affecting or mind altering LSD is a member of a group of drugs which like marihuana, peyote, mescaline, psilocybin, DMT, and STP. . Except for government -approved use for research. LSD is illegal in the United States. Because LSD is dangerous when not used for careful research under close medical medi-cal supervision, it. is closely regulated- by Federal . and State laws. These ' provide stiff penalties for illegal production, sale, other dis-. dis-. position, and, .in some cases, for possession or use.. Because more knowledge is needed about this powerful power-ful compound, broad scale research is underway to leam fully about' its" chemistry, chem-istry, animal . and human effects,-. . and whether' it can have- anymedical or1 other 'real 'values.' . This is another .' part of the national attack on abuse of narcotics and dangerous drugs of all kinds. ' On the educational side, newspaper pers, magazines, radio, . and television are - enlisting in the fight in a new campaign, to provide everyone with accurate ac-curate information. For a free folder . of 1 facts Box 1080, Washington, D.C. 2013. " " - From the Canyons. Ff''imA National Park Service 1 WAm1 j-J Department of the Interior Vr3'i; Canyonlands - Arches - Bridges breathe really clean air? Look out over some of the desert flats, particularly in the sage or blackbrush country, coun-try, Study it and you will see a definite pattern: so many plants per so mucn area. If you were to measure meas-ure off a number of squares and count the growing things Inside them, you would get a fairly regular number. Why? All organisms have definite defin-ite space requirements: space to provide for needs, such as water, surface to stand on grow on, and light. This space can be shared, provided each ' organism takes no more than required One plant may prefer bright sunlight; another needs s ade. The second plant j-be j-be making a home benti the first. We seem1 to have sp-. i,n abundance in Souths" Utah , but even here it dwindling. Lack of zonb our towns , crowded tra.'-courts, tra.'-courts, the noise of truo controlled burning of was ail consume space, or qt One Moabite commw recently "Quit worryic: We won't be around ' it gets that bad , and rv now Moab has no probfer So - it isn't ignorance i are fighting anymore, i indifference. Why else we continue to ignore f the simple laws of nfe our laws - - that are all und us. |