http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/obama-picks-a-moderate-for-interior-secretary Some are disappointed, but Rocky Barker thinks Ken Salazar is a good choice to head Interior. No publisher Rocky Barker Ken Salazar Western land-use issues Public land management Interior Department Barack Obama Interior secretary Obama Cabinet appointments 2010-02-05T09:19:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/who-will-be-the-west2019s-new-boss The Interior secretary is the nation's top wildlife manager and federal landlord, managing 507 million acres, 600 dams and 68 percent of the nation's energy reserves. No publisher Rocky Barker Dirk Kempthorne Western politics John McCain Interior Department Cabinet appointments Barack Obama Interior secretary 2010-02-05T08:38:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/no-end-in-sight-as-the-roadless-issue-rambles Rocky Barker on the endless struggle over protecting the national forests’ roadless areas. No publisher Rocky Barker Idaho roadless decision Wilderness Court decisions Elizabeth LaPorte Judge Clarence Brimmer Clinton environmental policies National forests Roadless rule Land protection 2010-02-05T08:59:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-western-woman-redefines-the-presidential-race Rocky Barker thinks Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin has a good shot at winning the West for John McCain. No publisher Rocky Barker Election 2008 Republican party Alaska governor Sarah Palin John McCain 2010-02-05T09:26:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-next-fires-will-be-anytime-all-the-time Rocky Barker remembers the Yellowstone fires of 1988, and warns that in today’s hotter, drier West, gigantic, uncontrollable blazes are going to become an everyday occurrence. No publisher Rocky Barker Forest Fires 2010-02-05T09:26:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17661 Rocky Barker says four Northwestern tribes stopped fighting the federal government over dam-breaching on the Snake River largely because they could read the political writing on the walls. No publisher Rocky Barker Native Americans Rocky Barker Snake River dam breaching salmon Native Americans Nez Perce Warm Springs Yakama Umatilla Colville Tribe Salmon 2010-02-05T09:47:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17416 Rocky Barker wants to bury the Marlboro Man, whose myth did much to glamorize smoking, killing millions of people, including his parents. No publisher Rocky Barker Rocky Barker smoking lung cancer cigarette advertising Marlboro 2010-02-05T09:45:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17245 Rocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires. No publisher Rocky Barker Rocky Barker forest fires wildfires global warming drought climate change 2010-02-05T09:44:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16851 Rocky Barker says wolves are protected by public sentiment -- even in Idaho, where the governor wants to shoot one. No publisher Rocky Barker Threatened and Endangered Species wolves delisting endangered species 2010-02-05T09:42:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/324/16353 Newly appointed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has a chance to use his deal-making abilities to bring change to the way Western public lands are managed No publisher Rocky Barker Public Lands Federal Employees Appointed Officials Dirk Kempthorne Cecil Andrus Stewart Udall Bruce Babbitt Gale Norton Interior Department Interior secretaries government officials Idaho governors U.S. senators John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Bill Clinton George W. Bush Bush environmental po 2011-11-12T02:30:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15969 After Michele DeHart of the Fish Passage Center in Portland, Ore., publicly supported a plan to protect salmon, angry lawmakers led by Sen. Larry Craig yanked the center’s funding No publisher Rocky Barker Water Dams Salmon Michele DeHart Fish Passage Center Larry Craig salmon endangered fish dams hydropower Judge James Redden Army Corps of Engineers Bonneville Power Administration biologists Patty Murray Bert Bowler Idaho Rivers United Bush administration Chi 2010-02-05T08:56:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15925 Sen. Larry Craig’s suggestion that New Orleans’ 9th Ward be restored as a wetland may represent a newfound respect for the power of nature and the limits of the human ability to control it No publisher Rocky Barker Forests Fires Congress Larry Craig New Orleans 9th Ward hurricane damage Hurricane Katrina wetlands restoration forest fires Yellowstone fires wildfires fire suppression Forest Service National Academy of Sciences Forest Commission Gifford Pinchot John Muir Hurric 2010-02-05T08:31:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15900 The writer says fire and flood teach us about our weak control of nature No publisher Rocky Barker 2010-02-05T09:27:57Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15798 A longtime consultant to the hydropower industry, biologist Don Chapman, shook the Northwest this summer when he declared that four dams on the Lower Snake River should be breached to save the salmon No publisher Rocky Barker Water Dams And Water Supply Projects Energy Hydropower Salmon Don Chapman fisheries biologists hydropower industry salmon endangered species Lower Snake River dams dam breaching University of Idaho Steve Pettit Idaho Department of Game and Fish Darth Vader Star Wars sage fish barging James Redden Bush 2010-02-05T09:26:24Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/15737 The writer says longtime industry biologist Don Chapman shocked everyone when he came out against dams No publisher Rocky Barker Dams And Water Supply Projects 2010-02-05T09:27:58Z News Article