The California Dept. of Fish and Game plans to restore the
endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep by moving animals to the
haven of Paoha Island in Mono Lake, where they will be safe from
mountain lions.
Items by Jane Braxton-Little
The consensus-based Quincy Library Group has decided to
hold some of its meetings behind closed doors, to prevent what
members describe as "disruptions" from opponents of the group's
controversial forest plan.
The controversial forest management plan put together by
the Quincy Library Group in California is signed into law without
much fanfare, as members of the consensus group brace for the next
round of fighting over the forest.
Old-growth ponderosa pine trees in the Lake Tahoe Basin -
both green and standing dead trees - will be protected from logging
under a new regulation.
The California Dept. of Fish and Game's decision to poison
Lake Davis to kill non-native pike has had dire effects on the
nearby town of Portola's water supply and economy.
The Department of Energy plans to ship five loads of
nuclear waste from Concord, Calif., to the Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
"Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California
Water Future" by John Hart is reviewed by Jane Braxton
Little.
California's Mono Lake has been saved from Los Angeles'
thirst, but a new local battle is brewing over the water in the
lake's streams, and the question of how far to take restoration of
the area.
Despite vigorous local protest, the California Department
of Fish and Game poisons Lake Davis to eradicate non-native
pike.
Determined opponents protest a California fish and game
department plan to poison Lake Davis to ride it of non-native
northern pike.
The Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery and Economic
Stability Act passes in the House, but environmentalists have
reservations about the untested logging techniques as well as the
favoring of local solutions over some national interests.
Californians protest the Dept. of Fish and Game's plans to
poison northern pike in Lake Davis before the voracious fish
migrates down the Feather River and destroys the state's commercial
sport-fishing industry.
The Quincy Library Group, a much-praised, ground-breaking
consensus group in Plumas County, Calif., is now being attacked by
environmentalists as its forest management plan reaches the
Legislature.
In California, Michela Alioto, granddaughter of former San
Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto, offers a green-sounding alternative
to Republican incumbent Frank Riggs.
To improve trampled vegetation and watershed in
California's Ishi Wilderness, Forest Service officials remove 13
tranquilized bulls by helicopter.
The seventh annual American Forest Congress brought
together forest users - and consensus building began to
happen.
Fearing potential contamination, Nevada's Washoe County
sues to stop explosions of outdated munitions at nearby Sierra Army
Depot in California.
A controversy brews over a T-shirt spoofing the Forest
Service logo.
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