Residents of Nevada’s Sandy Valley organized into
the "Water Warriors" to fight Vidler Water Company’s plans to
develop the valley’s water
Items by Matt Jenkins
Nevada’s dirt-poor Lincoln County is rich in water,
but conservationists have reservations about Vidler Water
Company’s plans to market it, and the city of Las Vegas has
its own needs– and plans – for that water
In Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the
Colorado River, writer and photographer Charles Bergman
looks at what happens to the Colorado River once it flows into
Mexico
Frustrated by Utah’s anti-wilderness moves, the
national outdoor-equipment industry threatens to move its
twice-yearly giant Outdoor Retailer show out of Salt Lake
City
Environmentalists fear the Republican-sponsored "Healthy
Forests Restoration Act of 2003" – intended to prevent
wildfires – will prove anything but healthy for the
forests
Matt Jenkins says California spies drinking water when it
looks at the Pacific
The Navajo Nation wants to start receiving its
long-withheld share of the Colorado River’s water
Starting in Utah, Interior Secretary Gale Norton has
slammed the door shut on new BLM wilderness proposals and
inventories and wilderness study areas
Nevada rancher Cal Baird wants to protect local wild lands
as wilderness.
As the Wilderness Act nears its 40th birthday, it takes a
new kind of wheeling and dealing to protect wild lands, and
there’s no better place to see the new face of the movement
than Las Vegas, Nev.
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, Interior Secretary
Gale Norton astonished California by it cutting off from the
"surplus" Colorado River water it has long been using, after the
state failed to come up with promised water transfers.
New Mexico and the Navajo Nation tackle cattle rustling;
details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Plan
won’t be released; "anaerobic digester" in the works to clean
up hog-farm waste; Imperial Valley farmers refuse to sell water to
San Diego, Calif.
The Forest Service has announced a major overhaul of the
forest planning process that some fear may cut out both
environmental oversight and public involvement, and lead to even
more legal gridlock.
In Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of
America's Fresh Waters, author Robert Jerome Glennon gives an
absorbing account of the ways we use - and misuse - groundwater in
the United States
A new bill designates 450,000 acres of wilderness in
Nevada, but makes it easier for Las Vegas to grow by withdrawing
other land from wilderness consideration
Some congressional conservatives are trying to eliminate
the analysis of forest-thinning projects that is required by the
National Environmental Policy Act.
Best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, who wrote about
the West and worked to save its rivers, dies at the age of
66.
HCN takes a state-by-state look at the most important
elections coming up in the West.
In Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements
and the Second Treaty Era, scholar Daniel McCool explores the
current struggle by tribes to finally get the water they have long
been promised by treaty.
The Water Education Foundation's beautiful color maps make
California's natural and human-made water systems comprehensible,
even for the layperson.
BLM reconsiders approval of coalbed methane leases in
Wyoming; Montana judge says salty groundwater from coalbed methane
wells is not pollutant; California's Cadiz water project gets
go-ahead; Valles Caldera National Preserve, N.M.,opens
grazing.
California's Imperial Valley is under pressure to reduce
the amount of Colorado River water it uses for irrigation, but some
fear changes could inadvertently dry up the Salton Sea, imperiling
birds and animals that depend on it.
180 lynx to be released in Colorado; stricter noise rules
in Grand Canyon; Bureau of Indian Affairs to create federal Indian
Energy and Minerals office; bark beetles hit Arizona pinon
pines.
Endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow; Park Service
deliberating about snowmobiles; Thomas Slonake's resignation from
Indian Trust Accounts forced; Organization of American States'
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Mary and Carrie
Dann.
The Forest Service blames environmentalists for this
summer's catastrophic Western wildfires, and although Greens reply
that the agency is actually at fault, the push for more logging is
growing in Congress.
Water-hungry Idaho power plants are turned down; wind
power project on the Nevada Test Site is canceled; livestock-eating
wolves on Idaho's Sawtooth Nat'l Recreation Area are protected;
USFS plans to log 72,000 acres burned in AZ's Rodeo-Chediski
fire.
The Senate's approval of a nuclear waste dump at Nevada's
Yucca Mountain means the struggle moves on to its next phase, in
the courts.
Snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton; Calif.
gnatcatcher, San Diego fairy shrimp habitat protected; Pacific
fishermen sue to force habitat designation for salmon; charter
forest demo project bill in Colo. Legislature; Clinton roadless
rule.
Fire specialists fear that giant wildfires such as the
Rodeo-Chediski in Arizona and the Hayman Fire in Colorado may
become more common in the Rocky Mountains and Southwest.
Zuni Indians worry about NM's Fence Lake coal mine; Santa
Clara Pueblo's Black Mesa golf course; Trophy Mtn. Elk Ranch in
northern Colo. restocks after slaughter from chronic wasting
disease; Wyo. moves forward to manage wolves.
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