A single dirt road winds through the white sand and expansive piûon-juniper forests of Utah’s Kaiparowits Plateau. Encircled by Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the desert mesa hides both a seldom-visited wilderness and the state’s last large deposit of high-grade coal. Where dusty adventurers now dodge potholes, in […]
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Posted inApril 18, 1994: The salmon win one
A leaking public lands fund
The Clinton administration recently proposed spending $254 million of the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The amount – less than anything proposed by the Bush administration – shocked some environmentalists. They hoped Clinton would tap more of the $900 million that flows each year into the fund, primarily from offshore oil drilling royalties. Environmentalists calculate […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
Old power poles electrocute eagles
Last March, Clent Bailey found an electrocuted golden eagle beneath a power pole near Roswell, N.M. Bailey, who works as a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, then uncovered an electrocuted hawk under the eagle, a victim of the same “problem pole.” The experience launched Bailey’s campaign to retrofit poles and strengthen regulations. […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
Movable metaphor for the West now a video
The three Pinedale, Wyo., artists who transformed cows into ambulatory art last year now have a video commemorating the event. Thanks to a $4,000 federal grant, Duane Brandt, an art teacher at Pinedale High, along with his wife, Pip, and Sue Thornton, painted the words of a Wyoming pioneer on the backs of 74 pregnant […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
Draft plan foresees a freer-flowing Colorado River
If a draft plan for managing the massive Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona gains final approval, the Colorado River could run through the Grand Canyon much as it did before dam-builders arrived there in 1963. The Glen Canyon draft EIS, released by the Bureau of Reclamation Jan. 6, would protect the canyon from the […]