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CLEVELAND, OHIO
D. 409.4U SUN. S45.C32
OCT 18 1970^
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Outlaw
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federation rep or t stated On* environmental deci "Cleaning up litter: left by f - " . VV
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sion may start the move to pigs in Federal packs,
rrvcr?a the national despoil ests and other public lands
ing of our American parks will cost taxpayers approxi
HUNTEH Who? Apparently able to diatinguieh between earn**t
*nd v-jjilcraess yr-
areas.
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Craig Rupp, v
a mately $22 million during fiscal 1971. 'This is a 12 percent in
waterfowl hunters armed w-.th sholgunn and unarmed photographers, these ducks at Pymatunmg Lake permitted Plain Dealer outdoor editor Louis Gale to ahoot them with a camera but flew off when
Superior Na
crease over fiscal '70 and
opening day hunter*, approached.
tional Forest
about $4 million more than
* upervisor, announced this
Kweek bottles
and cans will ^
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the entire budget of the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries
Vildlife." " Tlife Fed
b e prohibited l ;
in the Bounda- Li-*
ry Waters
0ALa
Canoe Area of the Superior
starting May 1, li>71.
eration also reports two en couraging -- but rare -- in stances of American compa nies taking direct action to reduce the increasing rat*
The million-acre Bounda of environmental pollution
ry Waters Canoe Area in ' In this country.
northeastern Minnesota is The Monsanto Company,,
tii* second largest unit of 1 only U. S. producer of a
HEAVY WATER Industri al contamination of our na tional water is continuing practically undiminished, the Wildlife Federation warns. Many plants contin ue to dump highly texia mercury, lead, tine and oth er metal pollutants into the nation's lakes, rivers and oceans.
In a report to the Senate
Harry Schroeder, professor of phsyiology of Dartmouth Medical School said environ mental pollution by toxio metals is a much more seri ous and much more insidi ous problem than Is pollu tion by organic substances such as pesticides, weed killers, sulfur dioxide, ox ides of nitrogen,carbon
monoxide and other gross
problem It illustrated fact rats and mice sj their lives in an e meat controlled as to lie contamination lb 25 7-ercent longer 1 animals in the contai environment of th< animal quarter Schroeder warns.
There are two rep Sible jortnis coafioi
the National Wilderness group of persistant environ .Subcommittee on Energy, contaminants of ah* and wa lution of our envirot
Preservation System. H is mental chemicals -- polythe only canoe wilderness in . chlorinated biphenaU called the system. With more than PCB's -- has announced it
Natural Resources and En vironment recently, Dr.
ter. ' "The Importance of this
1. "What else Is m 2. "Let's stop It!"
100,000 visitors a year, it is is restricting their, produc the most hcavily-used wil tion and tightening controls derness unit ia the nation. ' over- their handling and dis
Rupp said the decision to
'outlaw non-bumable food
and beverage containers is the first time such a rule
posal. PCB's have been In use'
for over 40 years and have
been showing up with
has been made for any area alarming regularity in tests
in the National Wilderness . conducted on wildlife, the System. He said the deci National Wildlife Federation
sion came after extensive reports. In these tests.
study and Involved the pub-1 PCB's were confused for
lie behavior patterns.
some time with DDT which
Enforcement of the no can. no-bottie rule is
they resemble Jn .chemical'
structure.
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cd to reduce .annual refuse. Monsanto reports H has J
by 360,000 pounds in tha. stopped all use of PCB's In j
Canoe Area. This should what It calls "open sys- j
lav* some $30,000 a year in terns." These Include adhe
- clean-up expense^,
sives, sealants, chlorinated
i Rupp said elimination-of non-burnable refuse in the wilderness area may caus* q1(u1UicVk b1/uUrUn aIUmUoUnUg6 s"JoUmHWe
rubber, specialty paints and other similar items.
Hereafter, Monsanto, re veals, It will use .P_C__B,'s prin,-,
overloaded, inattentive tour-; ^paliy in dosed sj^tems.
J.tfi who will try to slip past 2^es 1 n c 1 u de electrical
check points with tnelr trarj^ermers aad capadta-
cases of canned" or bottled
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beer, soft drink* and canned.; The W"P"y ^
foods, .
. it has built a high-tempera-
3The public should become
quickly substitute-trained. Jpjpp said. A number of firms manufacture dehy
d, ra ted.. a.nd .,f,ree2e-dr.il.
.ture incinerator to break down old PCB materials into harmless components. Monsanto will offer its cus tomers the use of the incin. erator if they have no otheerr)ji
loois which oiler varied
ot ^ ^ b ,,f pCB. '
means nnd are packaged in I 8afei_ -
bornable containers.
*-SEKuonal Wildlife Fed-
He saw substitutes for mort canned or bottled car-
bmjotcd beverages ace also avsilabie in a variety of brands and flavors packed
in burnable or reusable yUstic-type containers.
Wilderness area visitors
wiii be obligated to carry
mil any containers from oih-
than foods and beverages
along vv;th metal foils and
other refuse which is not
burned.
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The Boundary Waters Canoe Area rule is a start in the salvage of this wilder ness area.' Rupp said some people will object to this rul ing but "most Important
the life expectancy of the PV/CA as we know it loday
will bo prolonged."
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nation also reports a new
phosphate-free soap has been developed by DeSoto, Tnc., 0/ Des Plaines, JU-, and Is being marketed pri
marily through Sears, Roe buck and Co. It will be called a non-polluting heavy duty laundry detergent.
The new soap is guaran teed not to harm the envi-1
ronraent. It is totally biode-1
g r a d a b 1 e and will break down in natural environ-!
ment surroundings, accord-1 lug to DeSoto, the Federa-j
tion reports.
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The soap tested more < effective at soil yrirtnpyql I
than phosphate dtfergwils; in hard water and only] slightly loss effective in soil)
water. It compares wilh;
pI'ii-,phatos on dyed fam-iiljj
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