ABSTRACT
The Eisenhower Administration has been marked by serious lack of fidelity to the general cause of conservation. The turning over to the states of the off-shore oil reserves—worth perhaps billions—and to private interests of the great Hells Canyon dam site on the Snake River; "political" appointments to a number of government positions formerly protected by Civil Service; the appointment to the Tennessee Valley Authority of directors unsympathetic with the purposes of the Authority; the Dixon-Yates affair; the attempt to gut Dinosaur National Monument with two dams: these actions were widely criticized by conservationists and by liberals generally.
