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  • Can Southwest activism and money coexist?

    The Pew Charitable Trust offers a huge grant to the 50 environmental groups banded together in the Southwest Forest Alliance - and some environmentalists worry that the money may do more harm than good.

    by Peter Aleshire, Apr 15, 1996

  • Democrats gag on bitter budget pills

    Democrats fight Republican anti-environment riders attached to the budget bill as the 1996 budget struggle continues.

    by Ken Miller, Apr 15, 1996

  • Stirring things up on the Colorado River

    The valves at Glen Canyon Dam are opened so the Colorado River can once again flood the Grand Canyon - and scientists, river guides, and environmentalists begin to study the results.

    by Larry Warren, Apr 15, 1996

  • A very large subdivision riles a very small town

    Irate locals in Big Horn, Wyo., fight the ambitious golf course and vacation home development plans of Homer Scott Jr.

    by Samuel Western, Apr 15, 1996

  • 'Two weeks of hell' saves a stand of old-growth trees

    Old growth in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest is saved when the Forest Service allows the timber company to exchange one timber sale for another.

    by Bill Taylor, Paul Larmer, Apr 15, 1996

  • Utah's Burr Trail still leads to court

    The Park Service sues Garfield County, Utah, after a road crew repairing the Burr Trail bulldozes a hillside inside the boundaries at Capitol Reef National Park.

    by Elizabeth Manning, Apr 15, 1996

  • Forest Service Economics 101

    The Forest Service rejects an environmental group's high bid on fire-damaged trees and accepts second-highest bid to ensure that the trees are cut.

    by Richard Hicks, Apr 15, 1996

  • Indian gaming still in legal muddle

    The Supreme Court's decision in "Seminole vs. the State of Florida" is a clear victory for states' rights but a muddle for Indian gaming.

    by Elizabeth Manning, Apr 15, 1996

  • Utah wilderness proposal rises and dies

    The Utah delegation's controversial wilderness proposal for southern Utah is defeated in Congress after a struggle.

    by Heather Abel, Apr 15, 1996

  • Dear Friends

    Ditch burning, Udo Zindel update, mapmaker Louis Jaffe visits, "Code of the West" on line and jailed Bill Chisholm.

    by Betsy Marston, Apr 15, 1996

  • Stephen Pyne

    Author and fire historian Stephen Pyne talks about the role of fire in the Southwestern landscape.

    by Ed Marston, Apr 15, 1996

  • Experts line up on all sides of the tree-grass debate

    Western university biologists and botanists dispute Goodloe's theories - from several viewpoints.

    by Ed Marston, Apr 15, 1996

  • Raising a ranch from the dead

    Rancher Sid Goodloe battles pinon-juniper and uses a variety of controversial methods to restore his ranchland in New Mexico.

    by Ed Marston, Apr 15, 1996

  • Tribe fights salvage logging

    The Klamath tribes of southern Oregon file a lawsuit to stop the salvage logging of traditional hunting and fishing grounds.

    by Bill Taylor, Apr 01, 1996

  • Top dog loses patience

    Yellowstone's new wolves knock the coyotes out of the "top dog" position in the park's ecosystem.

    by Mark Matthews, Apr 01, 1996

  • Rebels without a case

    A U.S. District Court strikes down Nye County, Nevada's ordinance claiming county ownership of all public lands in its borders.

    by Rick Keister, Apr 01, 1996

  • 80,000 tons of nuclear waste may head for Nevada

    The Senate Energy Committee approves the temporary storage of nuclear waste near Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

    by Adriel Bettelheim, Apr 01, 1996

  • Yellowstone: Geysers, grizzlies and the country's worst smog

    Winter tourists on snowmobiles are giving Yellowstone National Park the worst air pollution in the country.

    by Dan Egan, Apr 01, 1996

  • Greens want to draft Nader

    The Green Party will run a candidate against Republican Sen. Pete Domenici in New Mexico, and also wants to draft Ralph Nader as a presidential candidate.

    by Heather Abel, Apr 01, 1996

  • Yellowtail throws in his hat

    Montana environmentalists rejoice at Bill Yellowtail's decision to run for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Pat Williams.

    by Mark Matthews, Apr 01, 1996
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