The Wilderness Society has published two reports
criticizing the Bush administration's national energy
plan
Items by Joshua Zaffos
Herbicide spread by BLM land managers on range near
Malaga, N.M., has washed into the Black River, contaminating a
diversion ditch and killing nearby farmers' crops and
trees
A federal court rules that Pres. Clinton did, in fact,
have the authority to create six national monuments in four Western
states
November out West: The spectacle of changing leaves has
passed, the hills collecting snow are not yet blanketed in white,
and daylight savings brings night time all too soon. It may sound
innocent, but the season feels like a cruel and careless mistress
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether
to list the disappearing golden trout, California's state fish, as
endangered.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that, because of
drought, changing the management of the Missouri River and its dams
to benefit endangered fish and birds must be postponed.
RD's Drive-In in Page, Ariz., is facing a federal lawsuit
over its policy of not allowing Navajo employees to speak their
native language while at work.
In Hanford, Wash., a local group, the Citizens for Medical
Isotopes, wants to convert the Fast Flux Test Facility into a
private facility producing medical isotopes.
In New Mexico, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
celebrates its annual Festival of the Cranes in November.
A floating laboratory called Forever Earth prowls Nevada's
Lake Mead, doing scientific research and working with academic and
environmental groups.
The Web site of PEER - Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility - features a report on increasing violence against
National Park Service employees, along with other topics.
In the anthology The River We Carry With Us, writers and
poets celebrate the enduring beauty of Montana's Clark Fork River
and grapple with the environmental problems facing it.
The BLM says a congressionally mandated land swap will
trade public land on the Utah-Colorado border for Moffatt County,
Colo., acreage that has not been identified as necessary or
desirable.
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