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  • A journalist, and much more

    Writer and organic farmer Donella Meadows is remembered as a journalist, and much more.

  • Wyden squeaks in

    Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden wins narrowly over Republican Gordon Smith in the election to replace Sen. Bob Packwood.

  • Clinton says: Stop logging

    President Clinton says the salvage rider to the rescissions bill he signed in July has opened up the wrong forests to logging.

  • Logging deal struck in Southwest

    Some timber cutting resumes on the Southwestern national forests where logging was halted by a recent federal injunction.

  • Babbitt protests a $1 billion giveaway

    Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt denounces the 1872 Mining Law for forcing him to sign over 110 acres of Idaho land worth $1 billion to a Danish mining company for $275.

  • We don't crack the whip

    "Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West" by William G. Robbins is reviewed.

  • Save wild connections

    "Places of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology" is reviewed.

  • Sue stays put

    The Supreme Court ruled that FBI agents acted correctly when they confiscated a valuable allosaur fossil, nicknamed "Sue," in South Dakota.

  • Rocky Mountain Naturalist

    Radiant Days: Writings by Enos Mills contains essays by the "Father of Rocky Mountain National Park."

  • The BLM: New faces and new attitudes

    New appointees at the BLM reflect a change in the agency.

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