In Great Wyoming Bear Stories, Tom Reed
takes a compassionate and entertaining look at the life, lore and
legend of the grizzly bear
Items by Dan Wilcock
The tiny Hoh Indian Reservation on the northwestern coast
of Washington is in danger of being washed away by its namesake
river
The Oil and Gas Accountability Project has created Oil and
Gas at Your Door, a guidebook and Web site for Western landowners
confronted by energy development
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal for bull trout critical
habitat along Nevada’s Jarbidge River raises the stakes in
the conflict over whether to rebuild an Elko County road
Two rulings say the Fish and Wildlife Service needs to
take into account endangered species recovery as well as survival
when it comes to development
The Environmental Working Group has a new Web site, "Who
owns the West," which gives users a comprehensive look at mining
claims on public lands
Archaeologists are thrilled about the state of
Utah’s acquisition of Waldo Wilcox’s Range Creek Canyon
ranch, site of a thousand-year-old Frement Indian
settlement
U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers is reprimanded, and
then fired, after she speaks openly about the Park Service’s
budget problems
Former Park Service workers say the agency is being hurt
by budget cuts, but that employees are under orders from
headquarters to hide the problems
Citing safety concerns, the federal government has
canceled contracts for 33 privately owned large air tankers,
usually used to fight Western wildfires
The large-scale salvage logging planned for the Biscuit
Fire area in southern Oregon and Northern California marks the
first time logging has been approved on land previously protected
by the Roadless Rule
A plan for a resort development at the old Broughton
Lumber mill in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area has
some Washington environmentalists worried
Utah Gov. Olene Walker announces county-by-county
discussions planned to break the impasse in the state’s long
fight over wilderness
Summer interns Zach Smith and Dan Wilcock; visitors; and
farewell forever to Penny the dog
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