To many Westerners, luring an unsuspecting black bear with rotting meat and then shooting it is cruel and unsporting, not to mention messy. “It’s such an exceptional practice,” says Aaron Medlock, a former Fund for Animals attorney who now works for the Humane Society of the United States. “It’s so different from regular hunting.” Lawsuits […]
Roland Giller
Posted inApril 18, 1994: The salmon win one
Heroes and zeroes
Western politicians rack up some of the worst environmental voting records, according to the Washington, D.C.-based League of Conservation Voters. Scoring below 11 percent were Republican senators Dirk Kempthorne, Idaho; Conrad Burns, Montana; Pete Domenici, New Mexico; Bob Packwood, Oregon; Malcolm Wallop, Wyoming; and Larry Pressler, South Dakota. Experts from 27 environmental groups chose the […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
Clearcut
We can only wonder how Thoreau would have reacted, beyond suffering simultaneously from apoplexy and a coronary, to the trashing of nature that Clearcut reveals. Not just leaves and grand passages, but entire chapters have been ripped out. *David Brower In Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, disturbing aerial views bear witness to the elimination […]