Heavy-metal mining pollution in Idaho worries people
downstream in Spokane, Wash.
Items by Mark Matthews
In his own words, Coeur d'Alene tribal councilman Henry
SiJohn decries the pollution of a sacred place.
Marti Calabretta directs the cleanup of Canyon Creek, one
of the most polluted tributaries of the Coeur d'Alene
River.
Idaho's beautiful Silver Valley and Lake Coeur d'Alene
build a new resort economy on a toxic stew of mining
waste.
Retired University of Montana zoologist Bert Pfeiffer
studies "a very unusual animal" remarkably adapted to
drought.
The much-maligned praire dog is a more interesting - and
more beneficial - animal than most Westerners know.
Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas announces his
retirement.
The four wolves shot for killing livestock in Montana had
badly maimed paws - and 14 puppies to feed.
Wyoming businessman Mark Alldredge files 104 mining claims
in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, possibly searching for
diamonds.
Prolific New Zealand mudsnails are invading Yellowstone
Park's Madison River, where scientists worry they will disrupt the
food chain.
Some worry that the land swap proposed to prevent Crown
Butte Resources from mining near Yellowstone has only a 50-50
chance of success.
A grizzly and two 16-month-old cubs, sentenced to die for
raiding cabins and garbage near Yellowstone National Park, are
saved for a zoo by citizens of Big Bear Lake, Calif.
A pact between Plum Creek Timber Co., Montana state and
federal agencies, to preserve some land for grizzlies falters when
Plum Creek decides to sell some of the land to
developers.
Despite the killing of fish by polluted water in Montana's
Clark Fork River, the EPA still says the removal of the toxic
mining sediments that caused the problem is not worth the
money.
Despite some casualties, the reintroduced Yellowstone
wolves seem to be thriving and beginning to reproduce.
Yellowstone's new wolves knock the coyotes out of the "top
dog" position in the park's ecosystem.
Montana environmentalists rejoice at Bill Yellowtail's
decision to run for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Pat
Williams.
In Montana's Glacier National Park, young grizzlies have
begun to eschew hibernation and prowl the park in winter, pilfering
the kills of wolves and mountain lions.
Evangelical and other Christian environmentalists join
together and save The Endangered Species Act, and to prove that not
all Christians are represented by the right wing Christian
Coalition.
Firefighter Risa Lange-Navarro talks about the
difficulties women firefighters face.
World War II conscientious objectors who served as
smokejumpers on Western forest fires reminisce about the
difficulties and dangers they faced.
Conservationists protect the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service's decision and deny the Canada lynx a place on the list of
endangered species.
Forest Service biologist John Weaver learns from a lynx
named Chirp that he raised from a kitten.
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