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  • She wins friends for lions, wolves and bears

    Janelle Holden, the daughter of two Republican legislators, works with the Predator Conservation Alliance in Montana to help ranchers learn how to co-exist with wolves and other predators

  • Private boaters unite

    The new group, the Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association, seeks to unite private river runners as effectively as the professional boaters.

  • The NRA's powder may be getting damp

    The National Rifle Association may be losing some of its hunter membership and other moderates as it moves farther to the right.

  • An unabashed green's snapshot of Northwest forest activism

    A review of Kathy Durbin's "Tree Huggers: Victory, Defeat, and Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Forest Campaign."

  • Don't go away mad, just go away

    Idaho state BLM director Martha Hahn has told employees for their own safety to avoid encounters with Jon Marvel of the Idaho Watershed Project.

  • A bird? A plane? It's the environmental air force

    LightHawk, a nonprofit airline, uses its small planes to fly politicians, environmentalists and journalists over landscapes degraded by mining, clear-cutting and other uses.

  • Alliance for Justice

    The nonprofit Alliance for Justice has published a handbook telling nonprofits how to use their funds to influence legislation and lobbying.

  • People for the USA! disbands

    People for the USA! says it is officially disbanding due to declining membership and funding, but its members plan to keep their wise-use mission alive by merging with another conservation group, Frontiers for Freedom.

  • Beyond the white noise

    "The 2000 Directory of People of Color Environmental Groups" gives information on over 600 organizations in the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

  • Keeping ranchers' options open

    New Mexico rancher Sid Goodloe has started the Southern Rockies Agricultural Land Trust to convince his neighbors that conservation easements to preserve private land are a fine idea.

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