In his own words, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Region 1
Assistant Director Curt Smitch defends HCPs.
Items by Paul Larmer
In her own words, Environmental Law Fund attorney Tara
Mueller blasts HCPs.
In his own words, California biologist Dennis Murphy
defends HCPs.
Controversy reigns over whether Habitat Conservation Plans
- the latest attempt to balance private-property rights with the
protection of endangered species - are doing more harm than
good.
Ray Graham's lawsuit against the Sierra Club Foundation,
over money he donated that was never used to buy grazing land in
New Mexico for Hispanic shepherds, faces a third fight in San
Francisco.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service starts the process of
listing the bull trout under the Endangered Species Act.
Oregon is given the chance to try its own recovery plan
for coho salmon, while the southern population of the fish in
California is listed under the federal Endangered Species
Act.
Gerry Rankin, mayor of Big Water, Utah, in her own words
describes her town's high hopes for Andalex's mine, but says she is
willing to work with the new situation the new monument is
bringing.
Roger Holland, a Kanab town councilman, in his own words
on why he hates the new national monument.
Garfield County Commissioner Louise Liston in her own
words on her fight against the monument and her struggle to
preserve what she sees as important in the region.
As the small, conservative towns bordering Utah's new
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument begin to adapt to the
monument they never wanted, a new vision for what gateway
communities and preserved areas might be begins to slowly
emerge.
At the Western States Coalition Summit VII in Salt Lake
City, cracks in the wise-use movement are revealed as the small
grassroots groups and some founding members such as Chuck Cushman
fear People for the West has grown too big and
bureaucratic.
A 16-month-long national forest logging injunction in
Arizona and New Mexico is lifted when a judge rules that the Forest
Service has completed a plan on protecting the Mexican spotted
owl.
The Interior Columbia Basin Management Project has
produced a useful but depressing science document, "Status of the
Interior Columbia Basin."
Beekeeper Tom Theobald pushes hard to get federal and
state officials to address bee kills he is convinced are caused by
the pesticide Penncap-M.
Beekeeper Miles County, in his own words, explains why he
thinks a pesticide is killing his hive.
Leonard Felix, in his own words, defends the safety record
of the pesticides he and others aerially spray.
Gary Nabhan of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum believes
the "forgotten pollinators" - native bees and other insects - have
been ignored too long in favor of the non-native honeybees most
people are familiar with.
Honeybees across the West - and the nation - are dying in
huge numbers, and some think a pesticide, methyl parathion, may be
the primary killer.
Utah's popular Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park tries to
balance the needs of ORVers, hikers, New Agers - and the very rare,
endemic tiger beetle.
The next Congress will probably not solve any Western
environmental problems.
The small but feisty Coeur d'Alene tribe has always
tackled tough issues.
Idaho developers build resorts on the remains of a busted
mining and timber economy.
Idaho's beautiful Silver Valley and Lake Coeur d'Alene
build a new resort economy on a toxic stew of mining
waste.
The 104th Congress was a roller-coaster ride for
environmentalists, as shown by a recap of some the Legislature's
highlights.
In Oregon, Judge Ancer Haggerty says all applications for
grazing permits need to be reviewed to see if the grazing would
pollute state water.
Colorado's Amendment 16 would allow state school trust
lands to be managed for values other than money - and some fear
that would mean harm to Colorado school budgets.
In New Mexico, Native American gambling interests fight a
battle against environmentalist candidates.
Colorado's other congressional races are almost over, most
analysts say.
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