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The fight for Reclamation

New Commissioner of Reclamation Dan Beard seeks to make his agency more environmentally sensitive.

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Counties may shrink Utah wilderness

Utah Gov. Leavitt's insistance that local communities must support new wilderness designation makes environmentalists nervous.

Governor shoots wolf bounty bill

Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer vetoes bill that would have placed $1,000 bounty on wolves shot outside Yellowstone National Park.

Not the whole story

Recent survey shows that 58 percent of Hells Canyon area residents support protecting the area's natural environment, even if jobs are at risk.

Mescaleros now vote yes

Mescalero Apaches reverse themselves and vote in favor of storing radioactive waste on their New Mexico reservation.

Study or preserve: Ideals collide at Arizona park

Defenders of Wildlife stirs controversy when it hands the ranch Lucille Kannally willed to the group over to a government agency to develop as an education center.

Agency kills wolf by mistake

The Animal Damage Control program accidentally kills one of Idaho's newly reintroduced wolves in a coyote trap.

R.S. 2477 detoured again

Department of Interior delays deadline for resolving a dispute over R.S. 2477, which encourages road building on public lands.

Life among the ruins

A subdivision in southwestern Colorado allows buyers to build houses around Anasazi ruins.

Soft energy may shred Wyoming raptors

A planned Kenetech wind turbine site in Wyoming may endanger the raptors that hunt and migrate in the area.

Reward offered in rampage of eagle poaching

A slew of eagle-poaching incidents in southwest Idaho may be linked to illegal wildlife trade.

Feds flex their muscles

Federal attorneys sue Nye County, Nev., for claiming that Nevada owns public lands.

Wolves feel the urge

Some of the wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone are trying to breed.

Forest's real estate urge goes year-round

Gunnison Forest Supervisor Bob Storch creates another access controversy in western Colorado by giving a road-plowing permit.

Book Reviews

How to nominate an environmental innovator

The Pew Scholars Program rewards environmentalists with grants.

Our hot legacy

The Department of Energy publishes a book, Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom, about the problems of nuclear waste disposal.

You can't cut them all

The General Accounting Office finds that the Forest Service overestimates the number of trees it can cut from Northwest forests.

Gambling with small towns

A University of Colorado study, Win, Lost or Draw? Gambling with America's Small Towns, finds that the three Colorado towns that allow gambling are largely unhappy with the consequences.

Tales from the West

The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West offers essays by 26 writers.

Letters

Telling the truth is hard but necessary

Bigoted drivel

Taking our time, too

Counties can't "take back' federal land

One-size-fits-all environmentalism can be disastrous

Three provocative essays

Don't give up

Related Stories

Dams were built on breathless prose

A 1965 Bureau of Reclamation booklet declaimed the glories of building Glen Canyon Dam.

Grand Canyon flood postponed

A plan to let the Colorado River flood for one week through Grand Canyon is delayed, to the chagrin of environmentalists.

One project seems like the same old BuRec

Despite evidence it's a boondoggle, Southwestern Colorado's Animas-LaPlata is still slated for construction in order to meet treaty obligations to Ute Indian tribes.

So far, it is the rivers of the region that have suffered

An excerpt from T.H. Watkins' Stone Time describes how Major John Wesley Powell tried to warn people 100 years ago that there was not enough water in the West to irrigate as they desired.