In his new book, The Sunflower Forest: Ecological
Restoration and the New Communion with Nature, William R. Jordan
III lays out a powerful vision for a new environmental
ethic
Items by Ali Macalady
In Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of
Pronghorn, zoology professor John Byers offers a glimpse
into the life of North America’s fastest mammal
In Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms
and Ranches, Daniel Imhoff discusses what’s wrong with
industrialized agriculture and offers suggestions on how to fix
it.
A Season of Fire: Four Months on the Firelines of
America’s Forests by Douglas Gantenbein refuses to glamorize
firefighting or settle for simple solutions to the West’s
fire problems
In Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains,
New Mexico photographer Steve Fitch confronts hard times on the
Great Plains
Ali Macalady wishes Easterners would quit focusing on
Alaska
Changing the Earth, title of both a
book and a traveling exhibit, showcases Emmet Gowin’s
strangely beautiful aerial photographs of human-altered
landscapes
Duff Wilson's book, "Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a
Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret," investigates a
local agricultural chemicals provider who attempted to pass toxic
waste off as recycled fertilizer.
In "The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona
Grassland," biologist Carl and Jane Bock describe their field work
in the Appleton-Whittell Ranch, where no grazing has occurred since
the 1960s.
In "Woven on the Wind," an anthology edited by Gaydell
Collier, Linda Hasselstrom and Nancy Curtis, rural Western women
write about their friendships with other women.
In conservative Idaho, Boise residents vote to tax
themselves to conserve open space and stave off sprawl in the
foothills.
Golden, Colo., wants to obtain the water rights necessary
to keep the rapids on Clear Creek flowing for the city's throngs of
kayakers.
Robert Fillmore's new guidebook, "The Geology of the
Parks, Monuments and Wildlands of Southern Utah," helps readers
decipher the complicated landscapes of southern Utah.
Bruce Babbitt strengthens BLM mining regulations,
requiring bonds to cover cleanup costs, enforcing air and water
standards, and giving the agency discretion to deny mining
proposals that threaten habitat or scenic beauty.
Officials at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
plan to sue to keep TDX, a corporation with ties to notorious
developer Tom Chapman, from developing an inholding on the park's
south rim.
Yosemite National Park has a new management plan intended
to reduce traffic and restore habitat, by using 500 buses to
shuttle visitors through the park, among other changes.
Delivery of Klamath River water to California's Lower
Klamath National Wildlife Refuge was cut off this fall in order to
keep the river flowing for endangered species and
farmers.
A lifelong hunter wonders why all hunters are stereotyped
as pro-NRA, anti-control, when so many of the hunters she knows
feel differently.
Crawford, Colo., rancher Mark Le Valley and other locals
have set up a voluntary conservation plan to protect the Gunnison
sage grouse enough to keep it off the endangered list.
In Idaho, sportsmen are divided over a proposed law that
would require hunters to wear blaze orange clothing.
In Montana, the Blackfeet Tribe wants to remove a dam on
the reservation that is killing endangered St. Mary's River bull
trout.
Colette Kostelec of the Jefferson Land Trust talks about
trying to save land on the Olympic Peninsula near Port Townsend,
Wash.
Wendy Ninteman of the Five Valleys Land Trust in Missoula,
Mont., talks about the experience of her land trust.
In "Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West,"
Chip Ward describes how his home of Grantsville, Utah, came to be
one of the county's worst toxic dumping grounds.
New West Research, an animal-rights group, is posting on
its Web site the names, locations and phone numbers of ranchers
helped by government predator control; critics warn this could turn
those ranchers into targets.
The Natural Resource Conservation Service wants to
identify South Dakota wetlands by a September fly-over, but
environmentalists say the timing of the survey will leave out
wetlands not visible from the air at that dry time of
year.
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has launched the "Great
Grizzly Search" to scour Idaho and Montana's Bitterroot-Selway
ecosystem for a remnant grizzly population.
A report in the Idaho Press-Tribune documents the trouble
Latinos have getting home mortgages in southwest Idaho's Treasure
Valley.
The "Mountain Surf" chapter of the Surfrider Foundation in
Bozeman, Mont., has started the Snowrider Project to protect water
quality at ski areas.
Local activists led by 77-year-old Betty Feazel plan to
fight a proposed resort in the San Juan Mountains near Pagosa
Springs, Colo.
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