Sarah Seeds, in her own words, describes her conversion
from political businesswoman to committed full-time
activist.
Items by Anders Halverson
Jean Lycan, a restaurant-motel owner in Dixie, Idaho, in
her own words, describes the community's resentment of the
protesters.
Scott Ward, a former seasonal Forest Service worker turned
protestor, in his own words, describes his conversion.
A reporter visits the Earth First! encampment near Dixie,
Idaho, where protesters have been practicing civil disobedience for
five years in an attempt to save the old growth of the
controversial Cove-Mallard timber sales.
Idaho State Sen. Clint Stennett accuses Gov. Phil Batt of
abusing executive power by signing a nuclear waste deal with the
federal government.
Jasper Carlton, head of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation
in Boulder, Colo., was "guerilla lawyering" to protect threatened
species in court.
Environmentalists try to lease state lands that usually
are given to ranchers.
The Department of Energy publishes a book, Closing the
Circle on the Splitting of the Atom, about the problems of nuclear
waste disposal.
The Animal Damage Control program accidentally kills one
of Idaho's newly reintroduced wolves in a coyote trap.
Recent survey shows that 58 percent of Hells Canyon area
residents support protecting the area's natural environment, even
if jobs are at risk.
A planned Kenetech wind turbine site in Wyoming may
endanger the raptors that hunt and migrate in the area.
The Supreme Court refuses to overturn Montana's
"hunter-harassment" law.
Former Interior Secretary James Watt is indicted by a
federal grand jury for lying to Congress and obstructing an
investigation of fraud.
A report by the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration blames Forest Service and BLM "indifference" and
"willful safety violations" for deaths of 14 firefighters in
Colorado.
Grazing fees decrease instead of being raised on federal
lands.
A part-time farmer in drought-stricken northeast Oregon
founds "church" to obtain umlimited water use.
The new, Republican-dominated House Resources Committee
lambasts Bruce Babbitt for reintroducing wolves in the
West.
Seventy percent of Coloradoans would welcome the return of
gray wolves to the state.
The introduction of sea lampreys is one of many
possibilities considered for controlling invasive lake trout in
Yellowstone Lake.
Legal wrangling over wolf reintroduction persists until
the last minute.
A Department of Interior audit accuses BLM's law
enforcement division of extravagance.
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