High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. Sedimentation is a building problem in the West's reservoirs http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam/sedimentation-a-building-problem-in-the-wests-reservoirs The West's reservoirs are waging a constant battle against rising levels of sediment. No publisher Matt Weiser U.S. Army Corps of Engineers silt dams sedimentation Western reservoirs Bureau of Reclamation 2011-04-26T20:15:51Z News Article Selected Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs ... and how they've shrunk* http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/muddy-waters-silt-and-the-slow-demise-of-glen-canyon-dam/sedimentation-a-building-problem-in-the-wests-reservoirs/selected-bureau-of-reclamation-reservoirs-and-how-theyve-shrunk No publisher Matt Weiser 2011-04-12T22:14:23Z Infographic Pombo's power grows — and so do the scandals http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15658 Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily grown No publisher Matt Weiser Congress Richard Pombo House of Representatives House Resources Committee political scandals Tom DeLay Jack Abramoff Mariana Islands sweatshops Rich PAC House Franking Committee Public Citizen Brian Kennedy Gale Norton nepotism L.A. Times 2010-02-05T09:25:39Z News Article Will the real Mr. Pombo please stand up? http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15648 California Republican Rep. Richard Pombo made his mark blasting the Endangered Species Act, but now, he says, he’s learning to compromise on environmental issues No publisher Matt Weiser Congress Richard Pombo House Resources Committee Endangered Species Act Republican Party environmental laws National Environmental Protection Act conservative movement property rights wise use movement Joseph Farah Chuck Cushman American Land Rights Ass 2012-04-17T21:41:14Z News Article A massive restoration program may have nothing left to save http://www.hcn.org/issues/299/15540 Fish populations are plunging in the California Delta even as the CalFed Bay-Delta Authority considers exporting yet more water No publisher Matt Weiser Water Riparian Areas And Wetlands Endangered California Delta fish fish die-offs fisheries health Delta smolt striped bass threatened fish Peter Moyle ecosystems wetlands riparian areas Sacramento River San Joaquin River CalFed water use Los Angeles irrigation phytoplankton pestici 2010-02-05T09:24:54Z News Article Pets gone wild have no place in nature http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15461 The writer wants subsidized predators, also called pets, kept on a leash No publisher Matt Weiser 2010-02-05T09:46:13Z News Article Forest Service employees and activist face racketeering charges http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15326 In Fawnskin, Calif., an activist and two Forest Service employees helped stop a condo development. Now they're getting sued under a federal racketeering act. No publisher Matt Weiser Forests National Forest Service Land Use And Planning Sandy Steers Robin Eliason Scott Eliason Forest Service Friends of Fawnskin Marina Point Development Associates Irving Okovita Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics Andy Stahl Free speech federal employees Frank Fraley S. Wayne Ros 2010-02-05T09:23:43Z News Article Giant sequoias could get the ax http://www.hcn.org/issues/252/14014 The Forest Service’s new management plan for California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument encourages logging No publisher Matt Weiser Logging 2010-02-05T10:12:24Z News Article Some see economic upside in loss of farm water http://www.hcn.org/issues/234/13387 Fallowing land in California's Imperial Valley may temporarily put farmworkers out of work, but in the long run the extra money could help diversify the local economy and produce more skilled and permanent jobs. No publisher Matt Weiser Crops 2010-02-05T08:54:52Z News Article New desert town no home to the fringe-toed lizard http://www.hcn.org/issues/232/11347 The planned Joshua Hills development in Southern California could hurt neighboring Joshua Tree National Park and the Coacella Valley Preserve, the only remaining home of the endangered fringe-toed lizard. No publisher Matt Weiser Threatened and Endangered Species 2010-02-05T08:54:26Z News Article Does desert cross cross the line? http://www.hcn.org/issues/226/11206 A cross placed on Mojave National Preserve by Veterans of Foreign Wars as a memorial is the center of controversy between the National Park Service and the American Civil Liberties Union, which claims it violates the separation of church and state. No publisher Matt Weiser National Park Service 2010-02-05T08:53:12Z News Article The oldest living thing is a quiet survivor http://www.hcn.org/issues/224/11165 Shielded in anonymity, the "King Clone," a creosote bush identified as the "oldest living thing on Earth," can be found on a dirt road south of Barstow, Calif., where it continues to keep a low profile about the many benefits of its properties. No publisher Matt Weiser Plants Ecosystems Deserts 2010-02-05T08:52:55Z News Article Gold may bury tribe's path to its past http://www.hcn.org/issues/217/10917 The Quechan tribe is fighting the Bush administration's revival of a controversial mine in California's southern Mojave Desert, where Glamis Gold Ltd. plans to mine gold on a site sacred to the tribe. No publisher Matt Weiser Gold 2010-02-05T08:51:00Z News Article Bonneville trout denied protection http://www.hcn.org/issues/215/10868 For the third time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has refused to grant the Bonneville cutthroat trout a place on the endangered species list. No publisher Matt Weiser Threatened and Endangered Species 2010-02-05T08:37:23Z News Article Cattle make way for tortoises in the Mojave http://www.hcn.org/issues/214/10827 In California's Mojave Desert, local ranchers are angry at the BLM's decision to set aside land in eight grazing allotments, closing them to cattle part of the year to protect the threatened desert tortoise. No publisher Matt Weiser Threatened and Endangered Species 2010-02-05T08:37:03Z News Article