Plundered Wilderness. By some it's considered a wasteland, good only for timber. And lumbermen have bulldozed a hardwood stand on this stretch of the Big Thicket of East Texas, to make way for a pine tree farm. An opposing point of view is that the Big Thicket is an area of unique ecological interest which must be preserved from further depredation. Three bills calling for a 100,000-acre national park are pending in Congress.

Associated Press · [ca. April 1972]

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