A Klamath Falls company wants to build a ski resort on
Pelican Butte in Oregon's Winema National Forest.
Items by Dustin Solberg
A new management plan would increase the size of Oregon
Caves National Monument by seven times, from 480 acres to 3,400
acres.
Animal-rights activists in California clash with wildlife
managers, who fear that unless a law banning leghold traps is
overturned, growing numbers of red fox will wipe out entire
populations of ground-nesting birds.
Three men arrested for killing wild horses in Nevada;
Utah's planned Legacy Parkway butts heads with the EPA; Colorado's
Catamount ski area resort is dead at last.
A proposal to close 400 miles of forest roads and 200
miles of trails to motorized vehicles on Idaho's Targhee National
Forest has raised the ire of all-terrain vehicle
advocates.
Two Summitville managers, but no higher-ups, are fired for
Colorado gold mine disaster; an 8,000-acre wildlife corridor in
Montana's Paradise Valley is protected; 33 Nevada wild horses found
shot; New Mexico's Baca Ranch owners pull out of purchase
deal.
WY: Republicans win; MT: Developers pay; NV: Sen. Reid, D,
re-elected; WA moves to left; ID: Republicans rule; NM: Heather
Wilson wins; CO: Mark Udall only Democrat to win; OR: Gov.
Kitzhaber re-elected; AZ: Republicans win; UT: Gay Democrat
wins.
California voters banned leghold traps, while Utah voted
to prohibit citizens' initiatives that would restrict hunting or
trapping unless they get a two-thirds vote of approval.
In Oregon, voters defeated a ban on clear-cutting forests,
but agreed to allow the state to spend some lottery funds on parks
and habitat protection.
In Colorado, ballot initiatives regulating hog farms won,
and water developer Gary Boyce's San Luis Valley initiatives
lost.
In Montana, Initiative 137 banning new cyanide heap-leach
gold mines wins despite a last-minute campaign blitz by the mining
industry.
The book, "Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America,"
is a beautiful and thought-provoking collection of essays and
photographs.
Although many of the worst anti-environmental riders were
struck from the budget bill, the 105th Congress did not leave
environmentalists with much to be happy about.
Tiny, isolated Stehekin, Wash., a village surrounded by
parks and wilderness and reachable only by ferry, has been
discovered by a developer who wants to build vacation homes and
condominiums.
A series of newspaper articles from the Seattle Times
scrutinizes recent land trades in the West.
Washington voters will decide between two women candidates
for the Senate - incumbent Patty Murray, D, and Linda Smith, R;
Green Party candidate Sam Hitt challenges incumbent Ray Powell, D,
for New Mexico state lands commissioner.
The Udall family still lives in politics, as Morris
Udall's son, Mark, runs for Congress in Colorado and Stewart's son,
Tom, runs for the House of Representatives in New Mexico.
Pacific Lumber and Earth First! argue over who is
responsible for the death of activist David Chain, killed by a
falling tree in a protest on California's Headwaters
Forest.
Gary Snyder's talk to OSU's Forestry School cancelled;
Friends of Savage Rapids Dam say they can save salmon without
destroying dam; in N.M. the BLM pulls cows from 40 miles of
streambanks; Crested Butte, Colo.'s land-trade dispute; more Calif.
condors.
Activists fear a proposed nickel mine on Rough and Ready
Creek in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest could harm a unique
ecosystem.
The Family Farm Alliance defends irrigation in its report,
"Western Irrigation Economic Benefits Review."
Daniel Dancer's photographs in the "Zero Circles Project"
seek to inspire viewers to save the West's great forests from
logging.
A coalition wants to link the Hart Mountain National
Antelope Refuge in Oregon with the Sheldon National Refuge in
Nevada so the pronghorn antelope can roam.
Utah Republican Rep. Merrill Cook loses environmental
support to his challenger, Lily Eskelson; in Idaho, League of
Conservation Voters puts up money to defeat Rep. Helen Chenoweth;
Ariz.'s "Growing Smarter" initiative apparently not what it seems
to be.
Utah may trade trust lands in Grand Staircase-Escalante;
Mobil Corp. agrees to pay tribes royalties; Portola, Calif., gets
$9 million from fish poisoning; salvage logging starts on damaged
trees in Routt Nat'l Forest; lynx and wolverine return to
Colo.
The pallid sturgeon, a prehistoric fish, is teetering on
the brink of extinction, with only 250 still living in the Upper
Missouri River.
Democrat John Vinich will run against Wyoming Gov. Jim
Geringer; Utah hunters create an initiative, Proposition Five, to
prevent future anti-hunting laws; in Oregon, Measure 64 would ban
clear-cutting on both public and private land.
"From the Front Lines: Free Press Struggles in Native
America," edited by Tom Arviso, chronicles Indians' struggles for a
free press.
USFS halts climbing-anchor ban; Idaho fights return of
part of Lake Coeur d'Alene to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe; publisher
Gibbs Smith quits SUWA board; Yosemite Nat'l Park plans new bus
system; golf course planned in Inyo Nat'l Forest (CA) faces
lawsuit.
A youthful staff of Zuni Indians has begun a newspaper,
The Shiwi Messenger, to bring accurate homegrown news to New
Mexico's Zuni Pueblo.
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