Items by Matt Jenkins

Rural ‘Water Warriors’ take on a water wrangler
Residents of Nevada’s Sandy Valley organized into the "Water Warriors" to fight Vidler Water Company’s plans to develop the valley’s water
Matt Jenkins Aug. 4, 2003 From the print edition
Pipe Dreams
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
Matt Jenkins Aug. 4, 2003 From the print edition
Gulf of California Dreamin’
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
Matt Jenkins June 9, 2003 From the print edition
How much is wilderness worth?
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
Matt Jenkins June 9, 2003 From the print edition
Congress jousts over forest health
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 May 26, 2003 From the print edition
With its back to the wall, California turns to the sea
Matt Jenkins says California spies drinking water when it looks at the Pacific
Matt Jenkins Opinion Essay April 28, 2003
The Colorado River’s sleeping giant stirs
The Navajo Nation wants to start receiving its long-withheld share of the Colorado River’s water
Matt Jenkins April 28, 2003 From the print edition
Wilderness takes a massive hit
Starting in Utah, Interior Secretary Gale Norton has slammed the door shut on new BLM wilderness proposals and inventories and wilderness study areas
Matt Jenkins April 28, 2003 From the print edition
Wilderness provides a ‘safe haven’ for this cowboy
Nevada rancher Cal Baird wants to protect local wild lands as wilderness.
Matt Jenkins March 3, 2003 From the print edition
The wild card
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.
Matt Jenkins March 3, 2003 From the print edition
California’s water binge skids to a halt
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.
Matt Jenkins Jan. 20, 2003 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Laura Paskus and Matt Jenkins Dec. 23, 2002 From the print edition
Forest planning gets a facelift
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.
Matt Jenkins Dec. 23, 2002 From the print edition
A Western water parable
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
Matt Jenkins Nov. 25, 2002 From the print edition
Silver state gets a little wilder
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
Matt Jenkins Nov. 25, 2002 From the print edition
Forests could lose environmental review
Some congressional conservatives are trying to eliminate the analysis of forest-thinning projects that is required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
Matt Jenkins Oct. 28, 2002 From the print edition
Popular historian passes on
Best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, who wrote about the West and worked to save its rivers, dies at the age of 66.
Matt Jenkins Oct. 28, 2002 From the print edition
Around the West, the hot races to watch
HCN takes a state-by-state look at the most important elections coming up in the West.
Ray Ring, with Matt Jenkins, Laura Paskus, Lolly Merrell,Rocky Oct. 14, 2002 From the print edition
Native Waters
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.
Matt Jenkins Oct. 14, 2002 From the print edition
Flow charts for the Golden State
The Water Education Foundation's beautiful color maps make California's natural and human-made water systems comprehensible, even for the layperson.
Matt Jenkins Sept. 30, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins Sept. 16, 2002 From the print edition
The Royal Squeeze
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.
Matt Jenkins Sept. 16, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins Sept. 2, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins Aug. 19, 2002 From the print edition
Blame game sheds little light on fires
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.
Matt Jenkins Aug. 19, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins Aug. 5, 2002 From the print edition
Yucca heads for the courts
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.
Matt Jenkins Aug. 5, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins July 8, 2002 From the print edition
The tail of a dragon?
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.
Matt Jenkins July 8, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins June 24, 2002 From the print edition
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