Wake fire near Paonia, 14 firefighters killed near
Glenwood Springs.
Items by Betsy Marston
Good news for staff; Fan mail for Gretchen; Recycled
paper; Flights over Grand Canyon; March for trees;
Visitors.
Odds and ends, HCN survey, avalanches in northwest, intern
Peter McBride.
Odds and ends, visitors, transitions, intern Carol Busch,
barebones, high praise.
Wanderings of an Environmental Journalist In Alaska and
the American West. Essays by Philip Fradkin reviewed.
Commuting over McClure Pass, ad rates going up, Diane
Sylvain art show.
Miscelleneous, visitors, direct mail, Arizona bureau,
Great Basin interns.
People move West, move in and move on.
The Colorado Legislature guts a bill protecting farmers'
interests against the oil and gas industry.
Four environmental groups suffered a defeat when U.S. District Judge Aldon Anderson ruled that Utah's rugged and beautiful Burr Trail may be widened and improved in Garfield County.
Congress considers a little-known bill -- the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act -- that would guard the thousands of caves underlying public lands from vandalism and other forms of destruction.
"The world is older, bigger and more interesting than we are. Growth is the enemy. Every organism grows to optimum space, then stops." If it doesn't, he says, it's a freak, which means our overblown and overdone technological civilization is headed for a great explosion, followed by collapse. "That's why I'm an optimist."
A Grand Canyon National Park superintendent spent much of this summer sifting advice from the public on how to reduce noise from airplanes and helicopters flying in the 1,900-square mile park.
A spring conference called "The fate of the grizzly," sponsored primarily by the University of Colorado Environmental Center, brought together critics of the federal bureaucracy involved in Yellowstone National Park, plus a few of the bureaucrats themselves.
After a year of negotiation between cattle growers, nine national conservation organizations and congressional aides, no compromise was reached on the controversial issue of fees for livestock grazing on public land.
In Colorado, a garbage dump is proposed next to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
Although hundreds of wilderness areas have been created, few are actually managed according to the spirit of the Wilderness Act.
The frailness of Jackson Dam brings two sacred Western forces into conflict: agricultural water rights versus one of America's most beautiful and popular national parks.
By an overwhelming 62 percent margin, South Dakota voters passed an initiative that gives the people the "exclusive right" to approve or reject the disposal of all nuclear wastes within the state.
Three members of a grassroots environmental group in south-central Utah were hanged in effigy last month in the town of Escalante.
Pat Conkle, a former Paonia, Colo. coal miner, has succeeded in forcing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to defend itself before the House Safety and Health Subcommittee.
The MX missile deployment in Nebraska and Wyoming is meeting stepped up opposition, with Colorado pressing to be included in an assessment of regional impacts.
Visitors, odds and ends, mistaken identity.
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