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An unsung army of students maintains our national parks
The Student Conservation Association has been sending thousands of young volunteers to help maintain national parks since 1957.
by Michelle Mcclellan, Jun 10, 1996 -
The best guide knows how to let go
River guide, author and activist Roderick Nash describes a method of outdoor education he calls "unguiding" - letting the river teach its own lessons.
by Roderick Nash, Jun 10, 1996 -
New life springs from tainted soil at a Denver school
A program called Volunteer-led Investigations of Neighborhood Ecology (VINE) introduces urban children to nature, as demonstrated by Denver's Garden Place Academy.
by Bill Taylor, Jun 10, 1996 -
Getting outside all around the West
A state-by-state directory describes some of the many outdoor education programs in the West.
by Michelle Mcclellan, Jun 10, 1996 -
Salmon find a friend
Republican Gov. Tony Knowles of Alaska joins an environmental lawsuit fighting Columbia and Snake River dams in the Northwest to save endangered salmon.
by John Rosapepe, Jun 10, 1996 -
Operation bullsling
To improve trampled vegetation and watershed in California's Ishi Wilderness, Forest Service officials remove 13 tranquilized bulls by helicopter.
by Jane Braxton Little, Jun 10, 1996 -
Salvage logging rider barrels into a shy seabird's world
Under the salvage logging rider, thousands of acres of habitat of the endangered marbled murrelet may be cut in coastal Washington and Oregon.
by Bill Taylor, Jun 10, 1996 -
Lawmakers say Colorado prisons are king
The Colorado Legislature passes a bill allowing the state Corrections Department to ignore local zoning when it wants to build or expand prisons.
by Paul Larmer, Jun 10, 1996 -
A small fish takes a big hit
An irrigation district's water diversion from the Rio Grande in New Mexico wipes out an estimated 70 percent of the endangered silvery minnow population.
by Michelle Mcclellan, Jun 10, 1996 -
Planning regulations bite a planning proponent
Former U.S. Senator Dan Evans, who once supported Washington state's Growth Management Act, now seeks to change the law after finding it will prevent him from building a house where he wants.
by Paul Larmer, Jun 10, 1996 -
Sagebrush rebels in the apple orchards
Two Chelan County commissioners defy Washington state's Growth Management Act, claiming freedom from state and federal controls.
by Peter Chilson, Jun 10, 1996 -
GOP moves to rein in its rebels
A GOP memo to this year's Republican candidates urges them to start looking green.
by Heather Abel, Jun 10, 1996 -
Silence could be shattered by military jets
The Colorado Air National Guard's plan to increase training flights over the Sangre de Cristo and Wet Mountains and the San Luis Valley upsets locals, including contemplative monks in Crestone.
by Bill Taylor, Jun 10, 1996 -
Military in a dogfight for crowded skies
The Colorado Air National Guard's plan to increase fighter-jet training over southeastern Colorado raises opposition from environmentalists, ranchers and residents - and from Colorado Springs' booming airport.
by Malcolm Howard, Jun 10, 1996 -
Dear Friends
Special issue, board meeting in Grand Junction, drop-ins, odds and ends.
by Betsy Marston, Jun 10, 1996 -
A Colorado canyon faces an uncertain future
Western Colorado's Demaree Canyon, a wilderness study area, faces possible natural-gas drilling owing to a grandfathered drilling permit.
by Dawn Capewell, May 27, 1996 -
Wyoming's Red Desert: 15 million acres of contention
A possible oil and gas boom in Wyoming's Red Desert has environmentalists scrambling to mitigate the impacts without totally alienating local oil and gas workers.
by Katharine Collins, May 27, 1996 -
Joyriding kills
Recklessness and speed killed nine snowmobilers last winter in Wyoming near Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
by Bill Taylor, May 27, 1996 -
Beavers land on the hot seat in Idaho
A new Idaho law allows farmers who suspect beavers are damming water that could be irrigating fields to call on state officials to get rid of the beavers even if the dams are on someone's private property.
by Greg Moore, May 27, 1996 -
Colorado Democrats ponder electability vs. purity
Despite his support of the controversial Animas-La Plata water project, Colorado environmentalists seem to prefer Tom Strickland to his arguably greener opponent Gene Nichol for the Democratic candidate for Senate.
by Heather Abel, May 27, 1996
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