"Snow Country Memories: Interned in North Dakota," a new
exhibit at the North Dakota Museum of Art, brings to life the World
War II-era Fort Lincoln Internment Camp and the people who lived
there, like poet Itaru Ina
Items by Dustin Solberg
The other day my great-uncle Alfred gave me a handful of
the year's green beans, dried and ready for planting next summer.
"Give them something high up to grow on," he told me. "They'll grow
7 feet tall."
New Western immigrants - illegal or not - often work hard
in odd places, following the American dream.
A Montana Coalition hopes to buy 1,800 acres in the
Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area from Plum Creek
Timber Co.
A revival of interest in explorers Lewis and Clark raises
questions about how to handle increased tourism on the National
Historic Trail through Montana - as well as questions about how the
history should be told.
The remaining 54,000 acres of Colorado's Taylor Ranch -
called La Sierra by the Hispanic locals - have been sold to Western
Properties Investors, and no one is sure what the fate of the land
will be.
California's Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge has been
managed to benefit agriculture, not wildlife, critics say, but if
water is given to the wetlands before it goes to irrigation, that
could change.
The explosion of a gasoline pipeline in Bellingham, Wash.,
which killed three people, leads the Olympic Pipe Line Co. to
withdraw its plan to build the Cross Cascade Pipeline.
Idaho environmentalists dispute the Clearwater National
Forest's claim to have fulfilled a pledge to set aside 10 percent
of the forest in old-growth reserves.
The Supreme Court rules that coalbed methane gas in
southwestern Colorado does not belong to the Southern Utes, even
though the tribe owns the coal from which the methane is
extracted.
NW Forest Plan not saving owls; logging planned for
beetle-infested forests in Wash. and Idaho; Canadian company to
drill for oil on Blackfeet Reservation; Montana press secretary
Andrew Malcolm to work for Bush campaign; Navajo Nation sues
Peabody Coal.
In Washington's Methow Valley, irrigation ditches are bone
dry because the National Marine Fisheries Service has shut off
their water to protect salmon in the Methow River and its
tributaries.
Gary Greff hopes to turn his small town, Regent, N.D.,
into a tourist mecca through the "Enchanted Highway," a series of
giant metal sculptures he is erecting along the 30-mile road that
links Regent to the interstate.
On the Great Plains, some beleagured farmers are pinning
their economic hopes on local cooperatives, such as a pasta-making
factory in Leeds, N.D.
The Interior Dept.'s use of a close reading of the 1872
Mining Law to stop the Crown Jewel mine in the Okanogan Highlands
of Washington is overturned by a rider tacked on to an
appropriations bill in Washington, D.C.
The report "A Snapshot of Salmon in Oregon" explains the
complexities of saving salmon.
Battle Mountain Gold's plans to mine Buckhorn Mountain in
Washington's Okanogan Highlands hit a snag when the Interior Dept.
realizes that the mine's "waste-rock" piles will sprawl over more
land than the 1872 Mining Law allows.
The Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation unites
Christians and Jews in the struggle to save old-growth forests and
end commercial logging on all public lands.
Idaho Watershed Project wins right to bid on state grazing
leases; Colo. state attorney general plans to fight Gary Boyce's
plan to export San Luis Valley water; Idaho Dept. of Fish &
Game tries to get house in order; Montana corrals 60 stray
bison.
The listing of salmon and steelhead under the Endangered
Species Act is forcing communities like Bellevue, Wash., to take
action to protect fish habitat.
No refuge for prairie dogs in Baca County, CO; Zortman and
Landusky gold mines reclamation; pipe bomb for Forest Guardians in
Santa Fe; legislation fails to derail Mont. anti-cyanide
initiative; judge says Yellowstone broke law in bio-prospecting
deal.
Purple coneflower protected on N.D. state lands; federal
agency says bison pose no risk to Mont.'s brucellosis-free status;
endangered listing of salmon and steelhead will impact urban
Seattle; Colo.'s Oil & Gas Conservation Committee may favor
industry.
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission, created to oversee the
state Department of Fish and Game, is under attack for supporting
the breaching of four Snake River dams to help endangered
salmon.
A booklet, "The Mortenson Ranch: Cattle and Trees at Home
on the Range," profiles one family's attempt to restore the land on
their working ranch.
Environmentalists cheer and critics vow to fight U.S. Rep.
Diana DeGette's 1.4 million-acre wilderness bill for western
Colorado.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. closes its polluting pulp
mill; critics say USFS's moratorium on road-building not enough;
Costilla County, Colo., sues Taylor Ranch; mountain plover may be
listed as endangered; hunting rules for snow and Ross
geese.
Yan Saeteurn, who was born in Laos and now lives in
Redding, Calif., has built a life brokering matsutake mushrooms in
the Oregon woods.
In her own words, Hoopa Valley Tribal member Sherlette
Colegrove describes the Indian approach to harvesting plants and
mushrooms.
In his own words, mushroom harvester Bill Knight describes
and defends his trade.
Western Indian reservations and former logging towns are
among economically depressed communities seeking to cash in on the
new market for gourmet and medicinal plants, but some worry that
the boom of "wild crafting" plants may not be entirely
benign.
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