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Show I 'Cauldron' depicts BLM action BRIAN MASON Staff Writer "Without the help of people we can do nothing." "Whatever we do, 'the young people of today will have to live with it." These are two of the conclusions that the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment (BLM) reached in their I multl-media presentation T Cauldron," shown as part :of t Day activities last n ft. the past successes and failures future problems of the Bnere has been no land ethicin the U.S.," according to the BLM. We have already littered the moon "The technology has grown ZZ rapidly than the rn.nd can p-raso the implications. As one .SS example, the BLM is doing sagebru.sH control research to do teSne the effects of sprays on wildlife. In the meantime, spiay ing continues. The pipeline pio-posed pio-posed for shipping oil from the north of Alaska to tho warm Pons in .(he south could initiate a full chain of circumstances before we .have full knowledge of the con- requences. , We are a human society, and therefore we have to meet human needs, the BLM said. We want better homes, better places to work better places to play in; we want'to be well-fed, well-informed, well-traveled; we want more leisure time. But will this be material mat-erial prosperity at the cost of environmental en-vironmental poverty, or can we have scenic beauty Without the scars of development? Any organization concerned with environmental control is faced with many problems, according to BLM. It seeds an area, then finds with only one type of plant, it has created an ecological desert. des-ert. It attempts watershed protection protec-tion and scars the land with terraces, ter-races, trenches, and dikes. The organization develops a complex plan to prevent grazing from destroying des-troying the land and finds that the fences put up to control, harm wildlile. The 1770's were a period of the struggle for independence in the U.S. The 1870's were a period of growth and expansion What, the BLM asked, will be the legacy of the 1970's? Erosion? Litter? Junk Yards? Oil spLUs? "It is youth's problem and it is their challenge." |