Items by Kayley Mendenhall — 10 items
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Click for conservation
A new Web site called EcologyFund.com lets users conserve land at no cost by clicking on corporate sponsors' ads.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Oct 23, 2000 -
Something is polluting the water
The Washington state health department bans shellfish harvesting in Dungeness Bay, where the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe has fished for years, because the water is polluted with fecal coliform bacteria from an unknown source.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 25, 2000 -
ORVs named one of top threats
A Wilderness Society report says that off-road vehicle use is one of the most serious threats to wild places.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000 -
Cold can knock out whirling disease
New research suggests that trout that spawn in cooler water may be protected from whirling disease.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000 -
Faith found in forests
"Religion and the Forests," a new publication by the California-based Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation, calls for an end to commercial logging on public forests.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000 -
GAO blasts land exchanges
A report from the Government Accounting Office says that land exchanges by the Forest Service and BLM are rarely in the public's best interest.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000 -
Conserving connections
The Chatfield Basin Conservation Network brings together businesspeople, county officials, road builders and environmentalists to preserve open space and wildlife habitat south of Denver, Colo.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000 -
A massacre is not forgotten
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell proposes a national historic site for southeastern Colorado, where women, children and elderly Indians were killed by cavalry in the Sand Creek Massacre.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Sep 11, 2000 -
Cement glues citizens together
Pueblo, Colo., citizens, who worked for years to restore air and water polluted by their city's one-time steel mills, now fear a planned cement manufacturing plant will make their newly livable community unlivable and polluted once again.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Aug 28, 2000 -
Ranchers forgo their federal lease
Two ranchers give up their grazing privileges on Idaho's Boise National Forest, blaming rules to protect spawning habitat for endangered salmon.
by Kayley Mendenhall, Aug 28, 2000
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