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Show !?&$$- - !N V Of 'y? 'Vv 'y, ip Jv -- '--- ttv'A o kV' itt- - , a I r &M 'J7. X. t' - ? s' JC T Vji Summertime view of Mount Jay indicates extensive damage created by the development of a ski resort. Half of the stone summit has (b been blasted a way to make room for the tramhouse, which lifts skiers to the top, and all cleared areas are suffering erosion. r fl prT7P Ik by E. D. Fales jr. ur mountains a.e in danger. To see how serious this threat has become, this reporter made an 8500-mil- e survey by air, auto, canoe aod aerial cable car. I toured coast to coast from Maine to the Pacific Northwest. And I found proof of a runaway rush to "develop" all our remaining wild slopes, from the Alleghenies to the California Sierras. Not even the quiet Ozarks have been spared, nor Dakota's Black Hills, nor the Blue Ridges, charming Virginia-Carolin- a nor New York's majestic Adirondack. Examples cited In New Hampshire: I Mountains a formation made famous by a Nathaniel Hawthorne sketch. In Montana: I watched an "instant city" springing up in a mountain-rimme- d wilderness part of which as hnd belonged to you, until it public at left, ugly scars were left on the (ace of the remaining stone was traded away by U.S. officials with- out your knowledge. saw a wide new superhighway one that developers now want to run straight under the "Great Stone Face" of the White Dr. H. Vogelmann are alert to dangers. its equipment, I In Maine: I toured a wilderness where found a lonely peak now besieged by four companies that want to turn it into a recreation development. In Idaho: I saw the magnificent Sawtooth-White Clouds mountain wilderness threatened by its first gigantic mine. It is located on the open-pi- t surface of beautiful Castle Peak. Idaho's young Gov. Cecil D. Andrus is fighting this one. In state after state I saw mountains already defaced by real estate developments, clusters of TV and radio towers, waste from mining projects, glittering power lines and power plants and the raw scars of d ski resorts. I counted at least six peaks that now display huge college and high school initials hundreds of feet tall. At least one now is lighted all night a blazing billboard visible for a hundred miles. badly-planne- continued 10 PARADl OCTOBIR II, Wl |