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Show lems of mountain damage, and how to prevent it. Ski resort owners now are asking Vermont's new mountain-environmecouncils for advice in planning new trails to keep from scarring the visible slopes. The University of Vermont will remove all the transmitting towers from Mansfield and have them consolidated in a less scenic area. The cooperative owners of Mt. Jay announced that they will conduct a bit of plastic surgery to cover the scars on the slopes. "Mountains never really heal," says V'ogelmann, "but at least they're going to try." And another large company, through the Nature Conservancy, has handed back to the state half of one of its finest mountains. Only poor vegetation will cover area once it is cleared. Dr. Vogelmann finds. For Swingers in the Rain 'All are villains' Environmentalists say it's easy, in our deep concern for mountains, to blame mountain above 2500 feet unless you yet a state environmental permit." And such permits are proving difficult to get. During the summers now, students are a big part of Vermont's crusade. Living and working in science camps, they monitor the environment, report violations, and for example, read the daily temperature of streams and lakes. Others have made huge plaster model? of the peaks near their communities to record the damage and dramatize the problem so that everyone will be aware of what's happening. exenvironmentalists Vermont's pected a fight from the developers and they got it. But they didn't expect the sudden cooperation that some of the developers have shown: Several of the mountain-tow- n planners held up their projects until more could be learned about the prob the developers as the only villains. But Jack Lynn of the Nature Conservancy says, "The real villains are all of us. We should all really be kicked for neglecting our mountains so long. "We're all to blame even the innocent hikers whose deated shoes, we've just learned, rip out trails and turn them into rain gulleys. But the trouble is: we're iust beginning to learn all these things." I learned something else. In crowded mountain campsites from New England to the Rockies, and in the traffic jams of Yosemite and Yellowstone, I found proof that a "mountain shortif the development and destrucage' tion continue will hurt us all. Everywhere, I found roads crowded with families cruising in cars and campers, pitching their tents, and hunting in vain for the quiet mountain wilderness we once knew. Umbrella Bubble-To- p Umbrellas of this design sell for $8.00 and more in fine stores umbrella Come up for glamour, come up for cheers in your own buhhletop . . . the that keeps you cute 'n dry and out of harms way from pokey, old fashioned bumbershoots. Hairdos stay unruffled, you see where youre going . . . and people see you (and what wold I able with aluminum ribs granny say to that?). Heavy duty, reinforced dear plastic so light (just 13 oz ). . . . oh 26" diameter bubbletop yet, oMn out to big comfortable see-thr- u Kndosed is $ (Print Clearly) j Name Address Confirm tion on Interstate Highway 1 in New Hampshire has been halted by 5e relary of Transportation lohn Volpe to prevent undermining landmark. Old road is narrow. Apt. 1 Oily State n 7,ip SAVE! SPECIAL OFFER: Order 2 (one for a clumsy friend) for just $8.98. jj I 13 |