A Park is Born.CHILE -- The forests of towering alerce For the genus, see . Alerce is a Chilean town in the communes of Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas in Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region. Coordinates: trees have been compared to California's ancient redwoods. In July, Chile created its own Yosemite -- Pumalin Park, a 700,O00-acre tapestry of land that sweeps from coastal fjords to snow-topped Andean peaks. Pumakin Park is the dream of US mountaineer and entrepreneur Doug Tompkins, who has spent more than 10 years and $30 million buying parcels of land that now form Pumalin Park. The home of the Andean condor condor, common name for certain American vultures, found in the high peaks of the Andes of South America and the Coast Range of S California. Condors are the largest of the living birds, nearly 50 in. and the pudu Pu´du n. 1. (Zool.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long. (the world's smallest deer) is now safe from the timber companies that had hoped to log the alerce. Pumalin's crystalline fjords will no longer face the prospect of being sullied by commercial salmon farms. Doug Tompkins operates organic farms and ecotours in Pumalin. To experience this amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. park for yourself, contact: Alsur Tours [www.puertovaras. corn/alsur]. For more information, contact the Foundation for Deep Ecology deep ecology n. A form of environmentalism that advocates radical measures to protect the natural environment regardless of their effect on the welfare of people. deep ecologist n. [Bldg. 1062 Ft. Cronkhite, Jausalito, CA 94965, (415) 229-9339, www.deepecology.org]. |
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