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Talking Gourds Retreat
An artists' workshop on "deep ecology," "Talking Gourds Retreat," will be in Telluride, Colo., June 28-30.
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
MountainFilm Festival
Telluride, Colo., hosts the 18th annual MountainFilm Festival May 24-27.
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
Wildlife and Trail Recreation
Conference on Wildlife and Trail Recreation: Integrating Demands in the Wild/Urban Interface.
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
Pennies on the Railroad
The annual Wild Idaho! conference at Redfish Lake on May 17-19 is called "Pennies on the Railroad."
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
Hands across the water
Japanese volunteers form a group to build trails and revegetate meadows in American national parks.
by Catharine Walkinshaw, Apr 29, 1996 -
Healing a dirty town
The West Desert Healthy Environment Alliance (HEAL) surveys cancer and health problem rates in Grantsville, Utah, where residents are exposed to military hazardous wastes.
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
Wild Rockies Online
The Wild Rockies slate on the World Wide Web brings environmental resources to the Internet.
by Diane Kelly, Apr 29, 1996 -
Burning down the house
A new federal policy lets fire managers put protection of natural resources ahead of property when they fight fires on public lands.
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
Yard Sale
The Uintah Mountain Club in Vernal, Utah, plans a literal "yard sale" to raise money.
by Staff, Apr 29, 1996 -
Navajo role model
Diné CARE, the group monitoring environmental issues on the Navajo Nation, hires Christine Benally as its new director.
by Bill Taylor, Apr 29, 1996 -
Dam destruction moves closer
The destruction of two dams on Washington's Elwha River comes closer to reality after President Clinton allots $11 million to the project.
by Bill Taylor, Apr 29, 1996 -
Santa Fe residents win ski area fight
The controversial expansion of the Santa Fe Ski Area into a mountain basin called the Tesuque hits a legal snag when regional forester Charles Cartwright orders the original approval ruling to be reconsidered.
by Elizabeth Manning, Apr 29, 1996 -
Farmers feel burned by clean air regs
Eastern Washington grass farms are upset by an announced phaseout of the practice of late-summer field burning, after clean air activists complain.
by Michelle Mcclellan, Apr 29, 1996 -
Can cattle save the pygmy rabbit?
Biologist Fred Dobler believes that cattle grazing may help save the endangered pygmy rabbit in the sagebrush steppe of eastern Washington.
by Peter Chilson, Apr 29, 1996 -
Fish kill doesn't sway the EPA
Despite the killing of fish by polluted water in Montana's Clark Fork River, the EPA still says the removal of the toxic mining sediments that caused the problem is not worth the money.
by Mark Matthews, Apr 29, 1996 -
Back with a bang
Despite some casualties, the reintroduced Yellowstone wolves seem to be thriving and beginning to reproduce.
by Mark Matthews, Apr 29, 1996 -
Phoenix will try to save desert wash
Arizona tells the city of Phoenix that it must come up with $25 million to preserve the nearby state-owned Cave Creek Wash.
by Michelle Mcclellan, Apr 29, 1996 -
Navajos win round in coal mine war
Navajos win a court victory against Peabody Coal Company's strip mine on the reservation, citing pollution and desecrated burial sites.
by Michelle Mcclellan, Apr 29, 1996 -
A cautionary tale in Washington state
The Washington state Republicans swept into office in the 1994 election begin to feel an environmental backlash from their state as the next election nears.
by Heather Abel, Apr 29, 1996 -
Attempt at compromise leads to bloodbath
Strategic differences over saving the Endangered Species Act - including attempts to work with industry - lead to schism and rancor in the environmental movement.
by Heather Abel, Apr 29, 1996
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