Despite a sharp lesson in the folly of excessive dependence on foreign sources of oil, we are now drifting into deeper dependence with no relief in sight. Congress and the Administration provide few indications that they are going to do anything substantive about it. Efforts at conservation have diminished. (RH)

Announces completion of a final report and summarizes recommendations of the Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project based on analyses of three different scenarios of how America's energy future might develop. The study urges that many conservation measures be planned and implemented. (RH)

Article described a handbook designed not only to acquaint teachers with simple energy-saving tasks that students can perform but also to help them to understand the concepts dealt with in the lesson plans. (Author/RK)

Environmental interpretation has its roots in conservation. Today most interpreters recognize its importance in conserving natural and cultural resources. Nonetheless the field has invested little in contemplating how interpretation can be a mechanism for conservation. Meanwhile in the biological conservation field, the Conservation Measures…

The House of Representatives Bill 39, if passed, would designate new or expanded national parks, wildlife refuges, forests, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness areas on less than 100 million acres of public land in Alaska. (Author/MJB)

If animal extinction continues to accelerate at the rate that prevailed from the beginning of the century, then virtually all wildlife will be gone within 30 years. The great crusades of the past and current campaigns to save animal lives are discussed. (RM)

Examines and compares accomplishments, objectives, and ideals of Isabella Bird, Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, and Annie Dillard. Also considers their interactions with males promoting conservation and the ideological framework they brought to their crusades and to conflicts that developed. (BC)

Reviewed are some of the environmental periodical literature available to the public. The periodicals are divided into three categories: periodicals that deal chiefly with environmental problems and research, periodicals that are generally classified as conservation and nature magazines, and periodicals from other fields that include material on…

Because home economics education concerns itself with the economic use of resources, home economics is an ideal place to teach about recycling and conservation. (SK)

Discusses nine forms of conservation practices: sustained yield, repair, careful use, greater efficiency, lower consumption, doing without, substitution, new resources, and recycling. Suggests recirculation (saving goods from discard and from being broken down in a new manufacturing stage) as a 10th form of conservation practice. (Author/JN)

Examines how the writings of historian Walter Prescott Webb have influenced modern futurist works. Webb's concerns about new frontiers, population growth, the environment, and other aspects of society are discussed. (AM)

Refutes the notion of leaders of the 1960s ecology movement that American Indians could teach their land ethic to White Americans. Points to the differences in western cosmology and suggests that the land ethic is a comprehensive way of life to American Indians. (Author/KC)

This article presents the American Indian antinuclear stance which asserts that Native Americans will fight along with others against EXXON, Kerr-McGee, and other big mining companies. (Author/RTS)

Describes practical conservation projects at the Dean Field Study Center. Involves pupils in practical conservation work that gives them a memorable sensory experience and stimulates greater awareness, knowledge, and understanding. (JRH)