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  • Poison in the Wind

    As suburban neighborhoods sprawl into California’s agricultural land, residents are faced with pesticide drift and other problems

    by Michelle Burkhart, Apr 03, 2006

  • Bear killing increases but protection decreases

    Illegal killing of grizzlies seems to be increasing in the Northern Rockies even as Interior Secretary Gale Norton announces plans to take Yellowstone’s bears off the endangered species list

    by Michelle Burkhart, Jan 23, 2006

  • Where have all the rangers gone?

    Budget crunches have thinned Forest Service staffing even as visitor numbers soar, making it hard to enforce regulations such as trail closures

    by Michelle Burkhart, Dec 26, 2005

  • Public-lands agenda turns more radical, urgent

    Rep. Richard Pombo has inserted a provision in the House budget bill that will reform United States mining law to allow for the selling off of public lands

    by Michelle Burkhart, Nov 28, 2005

  • Homeland Security gets to bypass environmental laws

    Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff is using the recently passed Real ID Act to bypass environmental, safety and labor laws in order to build a giant border fence south of San Diego

    by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 31, 2005

  • Forest Service tries to teach greens a lesson

    The Forest Service’s claim that a recent court order would suspend routine activities – such as cutting Christmas trees or picking mushrooms – has been dismissed by the judge as the agency’s attempt to blow the issue out of proportion

    by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 31, 2005

  • Restoration-by-poisoning plan shot down

    Just hours before the California Department of Fish and Game planned to poison a Sierra Nevada stream to help restore a threatened trout, a federal court halted the controversial project

    by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 17, 2005

  • Boulder gets the gas-drilling blues

    Energy companies are planning to drill on open space in Boulder County, Colo.

    by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 03, 2005

  • Dear friends

    Books for Folks in New Orleans; fall interns Emma Brown and Michelle Burkhart; clarifications and corrections

    by Emma Brown, Michelle Burkhart and Jodi Peterson, Oct 03, 2005

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