Western communities get their hands dirty, growing food
and pushing for local production; growers deal with frosts and
costs; bees still in trouble; action on Farm Bill but not on
immigration; and California’s Tejon Ranch is more or less
preserved.
Items by Sarah Gilman
Development threatens inholdings in national parks and
forests; a few wilderness bills move through Congress; oil and
mining booms in the West; W.R. Grace sets up trust for its victims;
Homeland Security dodges enviro laws for border barriers; coal
power
Despite a cold winter, the West is still warming; the
Southern Nevada Water Authority has wild ideas about water;
renewable energy is on a roll, but expensive Western resorts are
not; neglected Forest Service roads make a mess in the Pacific
Northwest.
A good time to buy a McMansion – cheap; lawmakers
wrangle over development; “eco-terrorism” in suburbia;
EPA head honcho in trouble; cleaning up dirty Western air –
and a few dirty Western politicians.
In The Animal Dialogues, Colorado author Craig Childs
writes of chance encounters with wild animals.
Nasty chemicals in the Western air; drilling dust; EPA
gets tougher on mercury; wildlife agency reconsiders habitat for
Canada lynx and protection for sage grouse and white-tailed prairie
dogs; and Grand Canyon gets a man-made flood.
Wind and solar energy projects ramp up across the West;
Conservation Reserve Program ramps down; the West’s volcanic
history; potatoes are good for you.
EPA stymies California’s attempt to cut tailpipe
emissions; the West is growing but not sure where its next meal or
drink of water will come from; increasing amounts of ammonium
– and guns – in the parks; avalanche fatalities are
up.
In The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from
the Mojave to the Antarctic, Lucy Jane Bledsoe chases her
own wild fears across the landscape in search of a state of
grace.
A bill introduced by Colorado Rep. John Salazar could make
it easier for environmental groups and others to clean up pollution
at thousands of orphaned hardrock mines
Despite the promises of the Healthy Forests Act, the Bush
administration has proposed sweeping cuts to community fire
programs in the West
Idaho’s Fish and Game Department wants to boost
dwindling elk numbers by killing wolves in the Lolo management
zone
Grand Junction and Palisade, Colo., try unsuccessfully to
bid on oil and gas leases to protect their water supply from
contamination by drilling
In western Colorado, the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance is
trying to work with industry to set protections for landowners
before more drilling gets under way
The federal Energy Department and the state of Wyoming
have challenged Montana’s plan to establish pollution
controls for coalbed methane wells
A 22-year-old Canadian man, whose partially eaten body was
found in the woods of northern Saskatchewan, may represent the
first documented instance of a human being killed by healthy wolves
in North America
A group of scientists at Oregon State University’s
College of Forestry publish a controversial study saying salvage
logging may actually slow forest recovery
New interns Sarah Gilman and Brett Wilkison; remembering
Robert E. "Bob" Wolf; HCN potluck in Tucson
- Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado
- Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s Rio Grande?
- The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reintroduces bighorn sheep on tribal lands
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