 I went up in my little canoe and started gaffing fish at a riffle up the gravel bar. My dad came along with his canoe and pulled alongside a mine. He says, my son, what are you doing? Oh, I told him, gaffing fish just for the fun of it. My son, I says, never destroy fish. Just for the fun of it. It's not right for the great spirit. These trees in the San Bernardino National Forest are dying because of smog. The smog weakens them, then they're attacked by insects. They're taken out to try to stop the spread of the blight. Smog has been damaging food crops in Orange County near Los Angeles. In 1970, each was just a little bit, not that much. In 1972, each saw up a little more. In 1973, we have the problem right in here. This is going to be the end for me because I just really can't afford to be losing and losing every year. Can you imagine who's going to buy this kind of stuff in the grocery market? Who's going to buy this chapealeta like this? Well, that wouldn't be very much for the market. There's nothing. There's plain nothing. Smog spreads from our cities. This is Denver, Colorado. People used to come here for the pure air. We're trying to control smog, but the problem isn't just smog. It's waste, noise, and speed, and overcrowding. The problem is us under the surface in seams that run for miles. And to get it out, miles of the country have to be gouged open. Not long ago, we used to leave it that way. And the scars in Appalachia will still be there for our great grandchildren to wonder at. Now we've passed laws saying that after strip mining, the land must be put back the way it was. But land reclamation is not the only question. Under the rolling hills of Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota, lie some of the richest coal deposits in the world. If we mine them, the region's got to change. The long, quiet hills will have power plants and more people and more prosperity. Some who live here are happy about that prospect. Some are not. Any time that you have a way of life that is good to you, it's real difficult to turn loose of it and start all over again. And you're asking us to give up our way of life that we've known for generations. And it's a very difficult thing to ask one to do. Give up your land because it's going to mean more money and we need the heat and the energy. It does something to you in the early morning when it's 10 below zero and you're holding the lines behind the horses and you can feel the cold on your face. And the rest of you is warm and as you pull into the haystack, the cattle see the horses and the wagon and hear the jingle of the tub chains. And they just automatically know it's time for dinner. They can reclaim lands that are turned upside down. I'm not convinced that I can do that. And if we don't take a stand and try to save our existing life, there'll be a lot of generations that won't be able to take a hike in the trees and take a deep breath of fresh air and seize the wildlife and the game and the birds. As we occupy more and more space, the other creatures that share the earth with us have less and less. Only 50 whooping cranes left on the whole earth without room to breed, they're dying out. The bald eagle, our national symbol, now survives mostly in Alaska. We've driven them out of the rest of the country with our bulldozers and guns. The sea otter was once nearly wiped out by hunters. Conservation efforts saved him. Now, for some people, he's a pest. The problem is he loves abalone. And so do we. I think most of the divers wouldn't mind seeing sea otters as long as they weren't endangering their living. But you can imagine several thousand sea otters descending on a small abalone bed. It's very hard on the local industry. The Morro Bay abalone industry was virtually wiped out by sea otters. Fiddling this oil well blaze for 17 days and nights, that's 150,000 barrels gone up and smug. This is the biggest one that I've ever been on in the state from that year. And I've been driving a catapult ever since I was 21 years old, and that's a long time ago. We've got to shoot this thing with about 450 pounds of explosive between 75 and 80 percent strength, which we hope will shatter that in all the pieces and put the fire up at the same time. Do something that nobody else wants to do. It's hard to get a cat's dinner, back a charred dinner, and I'm only 60 feet from that charred. Really, it goes or I'll go. Of course, one day we shoot this. Now, we get off about 150, 200 feet behind a big tractor. We're the doger so that this raffle won't hit us when it flies. Sometimes it shoots a cab off the tractor, sometimes it shoots a whole fuel tank, shoots the air cleaner off, stuff like that, but you can all replace that arm, but a man is hard to replace. Now, you can eat dynamite. It's sweet, but it gives you a terrible headache, and your heart did thump something terrible. Oh, just like it ought to, escaping and it just reignited. This land was torn up for its core. Now we're replanting and reclaiming it. We're the problem, but if we put our minds to it, we can also be the solution. We've just got to decide the kind of world we really want. It's a great time to give for your light. Come again to see us human beings. That was my dad's way of thanking nature. We thank the sun for its light and its warmth. We thank Mother Nature. We thank the Great Spirit for everything that He has given us human beings.