A program called Volunteer-led Investigations of
Neighborhood Ecology (VINE) introduces urban children to nature, as
demonstrated by Denver's Garden Place Academy.
Items by Bill Taylor
Under the salvage logging rider, thousands of acres of
habitat of the endangered marbled murrelet may be cut in coastal
Washington and Oregon.
The Colorado Air National Guard's plan to increase
training flights over the Sangre de Cristo and Wet Mountains and
the San Luis Valley upsets locals, including contemplative monks in
Crestone.
Recklessness and speed killed nine snowmobilers last
winter in Wyoming near Yellowstone and Grand Teton national
parks.
The new Arizona Preserve Initiative allows
conservationists to lease state lands, but only those within a
three-mile radius of major cities.
Native Americans and environmentalists protest a salvage
rider timber sale on Oregon's Enola Hill, saying the area is full
of sites sacred to Northwestern tribes.
A dangerous build-up of hydrogen gas at the closed Rocky
Flats nuclear facility near Denver, Colo., has activists very
worried.
A group of concerned Ellensburg, Wash., citizens succeeds
in getting 12 tall, unsightly power poles removed from
downtown.
Northwestern salmon advocates are shocked by Oregon's
decision to extend a permit for Boeing Aviation to divert twice the
amount of Columbia River water used yearly by the city of
Portland.
Diné CARE, the group monitoring environmental issues
on the Navajo Nation, hires Christine Benally as its new
director.
The destruction of two dams on Washington's Elwha River
comes closer to reality after President Clinton allots $11 million
to the project.
The Olympic Watch League (OWL) keeps an environmental eye
on the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
University of Denver's Graduate School of Public Affairs
will choose a professor to hold the Timothy E. Wirth Chair in
Environmental and Community Development Policy.
Old growth in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest is saved
when the Forest Service allows the timber company to exchange one
timber sale for another.
The Klamath tribes of southern Oregon file a lawsuit to
stop the salvage logging of traditional hunting and fishing
grounds.
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission gets
ready to send the EPA its recommendation for restoring clean air to
the Colorado Plateau.
Although much of the West had an unusually wet winter,
fires are already starting to rage across the dry Southwestern
states.
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