Pesticides sicken residents as neighborhoods sprawl into agricultural land
Michelle Burkhart
Posted inJanuary 23, 2006: Timberlands up for grabs
Bear killing increases but protection decreases
“We call these vandal killings,” says Chris Servheen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grizzly bear recovery coordinator, “people who just kill things and let them lay.” He’s talking about the 11 grizzly bears that were killed illegally last year in northwestern Montana; one was poisoned and the rest were shot or otherwise killed. In 2004, […]
Posted inDecember 26, 2005: A New Green Revolution
Where have all the rangers gone?
Forest Service tries to crack down on rogue off-roaders, but lacks staff to enforce rules
Posted inNovember 28, 2005: Gold from the Gas Fields
Public-lands agenda turns more radical, urgent
As political winds start to turn against him, Pombo pushes to sell off forests, parks, wilderness areas
Posted inOctober 31, 2005: The Public Lands' Big Cash Crop
Homeland Security gets to bypass environmental laws
On Sept. 14, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff used a new anti-terrorism and immigration-control bill to waive environmental laws along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Real ID Act, passed by Congress in May, permits Chertoff to bypass any federal or state law — including environmental, safety and labor laws — that might hinder the construction of […]
Posted inOctober 31, 2005: The Public Lands' Big Cash Crop
Forest Service tries to teach greens a lesson
Agency attempts to bend court order to halt minor projects, but is knocked back
Posted inOctober 17, 2005: The Ghosts of Yosemite
Restoration-by-poisoning plan shot down
Just hours before the California Department of Fish and Game was to poison a stream in the Sierra Nevada — part of an effort to restore a threatened trout — a federal court halted the project. The plan called for killing all fish in an 11-mile stretch of Silver King Creek and Tamarack Lake, then […]
Posted inOctober 3, 2005: Out of the Four Corners
Boulder gets the gas-drilling blues
Energy companies are drilling holes straight through efforts to preserve open space on Colorado’s Front Range. Boulder County has saved about 76,000 acres from development by buying property and creating conservation easements. However, the county doesn’t always control the mineral rights underneath that land — which leaves the surface property open to drilling. Previous landowners […]
Posted inOctober 3, 2005: Out of the Four Corners
Dear friends
HELP! SEND BOOKS! Our hearts go out to all those suffering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. We’ve recently learned about an unusual — and imaginative — way to assist the hard-hit region: Former New Orleans resident and author Janis Owens has created Books for Folks to send books to relief centers, libraries and schools […]