Across the country, conservationists battle the rapidly
growing use of noisy, motorized water "thrillcraft," such as jet
skis and power boats.
Items by Danielle Desruisseaux
Migrating songbirds are threatened as Mexican and Central
American coffee plantations cut down shade trees to increase the
coffee yield.
The West has had one of its wettest winters ever, and as
the snow keeps falling in the high country, fear of flooding
arises.
The April 1 deadline for Navajos still living on Hopi
Partitioned Lands in Arizona passes without the feared evictions,
but the Hopis say the remaining Navajos still need to sign a lease
or leave.
A handbook called "Rebirth of the Small Family Farm," by
Bob and Bonnie Gregson, offers advice for would-be organic
farmers.
Following complaints, the BLM withdraws new "plain
English" regulations on the agency's law-enforcement
authority.
A federal judge orders cattle off Oregon's Donner und
Blitzen River, saying the BLM has failed to protect 75 miles of the
wild and scenic river.
The federal Aviation Administration bows to the protests
of air tour operators, and delays setting up new flight-free zones
over Grand Canyon until next year.
State officials are racing to draw up "emergency" grazing
rules so ranchers can turn their cows out as usual this
spring.
A very rare sighting of a jaguar by a rancher in southern
Arizona rekindles a debate about whether to list the animal as
endangered or find another way to protect it.
PEER's report, "Tarnished Trophies," documents how safari
hunters bring exotic and endangered animals into the U.S. as game
trophies.
A Navajo tepee blockade at Mobil Oil Corp. offices near
Aneth, Utah, leads to concessions from the company, which activists
say has long exploited the reservation without giving anything back
to the tribe.
Jet skiers and those who rent and sell machines to them
are irate over a possible ban of the noisy watercraft from Lake
Tahoe.
Colorado's Animas-La Plata project makes a Washington,
D.C., "corporate welfare" hit list, while the Southern Ute Tribal
Council ousts outspoken A-LP opponent Ray Frost over allegations of
sexual harassment.
The fires of summer 1996 in Colorado's Mesa Verde National
Park damaged at least one petroglyph panel beyond repair - but also
revealed 92 "new" archaeological sites formerly hidden by dense
shrub growth.
The number of young hunters is dropping, recent surveys
report.
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