02961cam a2200481 i 4500 122813288 TxAuBib 20111229120000.0 211006s1974||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib rda National Geographic: February 1974. VOL. 145, NO 2 : America's Wilderness: How much can we save? / Official Journal of th eNational Geographic Society. February 1974. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 1974. 159 p : col. ill., Maps, PB ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier National Geographic America's Wildeness: How much can we save? -- Brune! Borneo's Abode of Peace -- Trucks race the clock from Coast to Coast -- Denmark - Field of the Danes -- The glittering world of rockhounds. A national wildlife refuge in southeast Georgia that spills into Florida provides islands of peat, pine, and open marsh, all habitat for deer, alligators, and other wild things. Split- level Olympic National Park lies along the Washington coast and inland within a peninsula, and most of it is proposed for inclusion in the wilderness system. A Muslim sultan rules subjects in a modern welfare state financed by oil revenues. High country of northwestern Wyoming is as wild as when the first scouts and mountain men worked their way west. Conservationists hope to save it from further clear- cutting. A six- day trip into the central Arizona wilderness area reveals cactuses, woodpeckers, owls, and other wildlife well- adapted to high desert terrain. Half tame, half wild, a wilderness waterway in northern Maine gives canoeists a wild ride and quiet moments as it flows north to Canada. On a peninsula shaped by the sea, citizens of one of Europe’s oldest monarchies are devoted to democracy. The author reports on the maritime history and present preoccupation with fishing and seafaring. Interstate trucking carries the bulk of the nation’s freight and provides one in nine jobs in America. The author rides along from California to New York City. Family teams collect beautiful minerals in abandoned mines and mountain creeks, ever careful of conserving the places they mine. 20111229. America's Wilderness. Mazatzal Arizona. Okefenokee Swamp Georgia, Florida. Allagash River Maine. Olympic Peninsula Washington. Wild River Range Wyoming. Brunei Borneo. Trucks race. The Danes Denmark. Rockhounds. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ TXING