An Out-O’-Doors Omnibus

A whole slew of factson Dartmouth'senvironment.

SINCE 1972 DARTMOUTH HAS vested nearly $1.5 million in energy conservation, resulting in a savings of approximately $12 million. The Trustees recently authorized more conservation techniques with financial paybacks as far off as eight to ten years.

THANKS TO REGULAR INJECTIONS of fungicide, many of Dartmouth's elms have survived Dutch elm disease. The bad news is that as many maples are dying as elms. "Maple blight" has killed trees throughout the Northeast. Biologists have yet to find a cause.

EVERY YEAR, DOZENS OF STUdents take their environmental studies abroad as part of Dartmouth's Foreign Study Program. Environmentally oriented sessions are held in Central America, Jamaica, Kenya, and the Soviet Union.

PHIL CHAPUT, A FULE-TIME DARTN1 mouth employee, has just one .duty: he installs energy-efficient fighting. The resulting savings finance his salary.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOG A TROPICAL rainforest and still keep it intact? Assistant Professor of Biology David Peart is establishing a research site in the Indonesian forest to help develop a "natural" logging regime that allows sustained production of rainforest products.

BESIDES ITS SOO-ACRE CAMPUS, Dartmouth owns 27,000 acres of northern New Hampshire granted by King George 111, a ski resort, 824 acres of farmland along the Connecticut River, a 178-acre horse farm and riding center, 8.2 acres on the summit of Mt. Washington, 4,553 acres of Mt. Moosilauke, 2,697 acres of undeveloped property in nearby Lebanon, a large house with 25 acres of shore front property on Squam ("Golden Pond") Lake, 160 acres of land just off campus, 868 acres of mangrove swamp in the Florida keys, 270 acres in Key West, 598 acres in Newport, Rhode Island, a nine-hole golf course, and a bog called the Bottomless Pit to name a few of the holdings. Total acreage: 39,575. The Florida properties, though, are up for sale—most likely to The Nature Consevancy.

LAST WINTER, HORSES HELPED log timber in the College Grant. Horses skidded out trees on about 50 acres—five percent of the season's harvest.

TODATE, DARTMOUTH HAS SPENT $1.8 million to remove asbestos from buildings. Another expense: in an effort to help stop the conversion of Latin American rainforests to cattle range, for example, the College now buys beef only from U.S. producers.

IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, Dartmouth faculty have garnered nearly $2 million from the federal government to study atmospheric chemistry and forest ecology. An acid-rain and ozone monitoring station atop Mt. Moosilauke is part of an East Coast network set up by the EPA.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF Environmental Studies Don el la Meadows and her husband Dennis are the authors of Limits to Growth, one of the most controversial books on the environment to be published in the seventies.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IS THE only academic program at Dartmouth ever to arise from a student group. Established in 1970, it was the offspring of the Outing Club's Environmental Studies Division.

A tree doctor works to save an elm.

Phil Chaput

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Funded by the EPA, Professor Hornigchecks for acid rain on Moosilauke.