The Colorado nonprofit Sustainable Settings wants to teach
farmers about an ancient agricultural system called "alley
cropping" that uses scant water wisely and protects against soil
erosion.
Items by Catherine Lutz
More than 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel accidentally dumped
in a water-quality monitoring well at Copper Mountain ski resort,
Colo., have yet to be found.
Rocky Flats, a former nuclear bomb factory, is caught
between Denver's rapidly growing suburbs, which covet the open
space, and conservationists who want the cleaned-up area to become
a national wildlife refuge.
Telski, the ski resort in Telluride, Colo., wins a lawsuit
and can now expand onto national forest lands.
As increasing numbers of recreationists discover Utah's
San Rafael Swell, the BLM struggles to manage the area and
environmentalists, ORVers and politicians wrangle over the best way
to preserve - or exploit - the land.
Conservationists will need to come up with $3 million to
buy a 247-acre caldera near Flagstaff, Ariz., called Dry Lake, from
the developer whose plans for the site were stalled by
them.
A look at this last winter in the West shows snow in the
Northwest and Sierra Nevada, variable weather in the Rockies, and
what looks like the beginning of a long, hot, dry summer in the
Southwest.
Pintail ducks flying north from California's Central
Valley this spring will carry transmitters to track their migration
routes in an attempt to find out why pintail duck numbers are
dropping.
The National BLM Wilderness Campaign, a project of the
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, is lobbying to protect roadless
lands throughout the country.
Washington farmers are working to get into compliance with
the Endangered Species and Clean Water acts to save threatened
salmon.
A letter from Elko County District Attorney Gary Woodbury
advised Nevada businesses to not sell to or serve Forest Service
employees.
The Park Service has begun to restrict motorized
recreation in many national parks, banning tourist flights,
personal watercraft and snowmobiles in some areas and working to
reduce auto congestion.
The Department of Agriculture has released its new,
proposed national organic standards for food in the U.S.
A new documentary, "Subdivide and Conquer: The New West,"
takes a sobering look at the rapid development and sprawling
subdivisions in the West.
Sen. Larry Craig's proposed Outfitters Policy Act would
standardize outfitter operations on the public lands, but private
users and other critics say the law would tie up the resource for
commercial benefit.
Colorado Wild, an environmental group, is appealing the
Forest Service's decision to let Arapahoe Basin Ski Area divert
water from the North Fork of the Snake River for use in
snowmaking.
Judge upholds drilling ban on Rocky Mtn. Front; Rep. Tom
Udall is for breaching Snake River dams; GAO says Baca Ranch, N.M.,
is overpriced; Louisiana-Pacific fined for toxic dumping;
Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca supports Mexican wolves in Gila
Wilderness.
After a 14-hour hearing packed with anti-growth activists,
Garfield County Commissioners vote down Sanders Ranch, a huge
development that would create a new town between Glenwood Springs
and Carbondale.
Two natural-foods chains - Wild Oats Market and Whole
Foods Market - are banning genetically engineered foods from their
stores.
"Green Scissors 2000," a report by a coalition of
environmental and taxpayer groups, cites 77 wasteful government
programs.
The League of Conservation Voters gives most Western
congress people a poor grade on environmental issues.
A special investigative report by the San Jose (Calif.)
Mercury News says public-lands grazing consumes dollars as well as
grass.
The Glen Canyon Action Network plans a Restoration
Celebration and Rendezvous at Utah's Glen Canyon Dam.
Babbitt plans "national landscape monuments"; Phoenix air
pollution; Animas-La Plata rises again; Las Vegas Mayor Oscar
Goodman's ideas on storing nuclear waste; lawsuit over Makah
Indians' right to hunt gray whales.
The 20-year-old quarterly "Women in Natural Resource"
covers the changing role of women in the natural resource
professions.
John Mumma resigns as director of the Colorado Division of
Wildlife as agency morale drops under a state government
unsympathetic to wildlife.
A former manager at the Army's chemical weapons
incinerator in Tooele County, Utah, says he was threatened with
firing if he talked about the plant's environmental
problems.
Rep. Mark Udall, D, is battling a Colorado Department of
Resources moratorium on buying land for wildlife habitat.
The Boulder-based wolf recovery organization, Sinapu, is
working on restoring the wolf to Colorado's San Juan
Mountains.
Farmers in San Luis, Colo., are upset that pollution from
a defunct gold mine owned by Battle Mountain Gold is leaking into
Rito Seco Creek, which feeds their irrigation ditches.
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