PROJECT LIGHTHAWK

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In addition to its duties as an "aerial ferryboat", Lighthawk provides an airborne "watchdog" service. Flying; easily-and safely-through high mountain ranges and narrow canyons, the small plane offers its passengers a bird's-eye view of mining, logging, dams, drilling, and other operations that may be illegally damaging public lands.

Stewartt—a veteran wilderness guide—is no novice to aviation and environmental causes. As a volunteer for Wings of Hope, he flew lifesaving missions in Guatemala . . . and, in 1975, piloted journalists and photographers over a proposed site for what would have been the largest coalfired electric plant in this country, near the Grand Canyon and other natural treasures. The publicity from the latter effort created a storm of public opposition to the project, and eventually resulted in its suspension.

In its few months of operation, Project Lighthawk has already received positive feedback from environmental groups: testimonial letters of thanks for Stewartt's airborne assist have come from the Nature Conservancy, the American Wilderness Alliance, the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Wyoming Wilderness Association.

EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information about Mike Stewartt's services, write-including a self-addressed. stamped envelope and perhaps a dollar or so—to Project Lighthawk, Dept. TMEN, P.O. Box 3871,, Grand Junction, Colorado 81502.

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