Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Mgmt. Project may die in
four months; Supreme Court overrules 13 cases decided by 9th
Circuit Court; Summo USA drops mining claims in N.M.; Mont.'s
McDonald gold mine is in paperwork limbo; Atlas uranium tailings
remain.
Items by Dustin Solberg
Inholdings making up 12 percent of Calif.'s Mojave Nat'l
Preserve for sale; 7 of 11 re-introduced Mexican wolves still alive
in Southwest; USFWS proposes listing Canada lynx as "threatened";
USFS plans to log Oregon's watershed; L-P still owes
money.
Utah Wilderness Coalition volunteers, doing a re-inventory
of BLM lands left out of a previous wilderness proposal, come up
with 3 million more acres, making a total of 8.5 million acres that
activists say should be protected as wilderness.
Law professor William Michael Treanor has written a
booklet to clarify "takings" issues, "The Original Understanding of
the Takings Clause."
Some say that the seminars for judges hosted by economist
John Baden's group FREE (Foundation for Research on Economics and
the Environment) are biased toward a right-wing property-rights
advocacy.
Louisiana-Pacific is fined $37 million for breaking
environmental laws at its Olathe, Colo., waferboard plant, and also
for selling a product that did not meet the company's
claim.
Idaho debates four Snake River dams; no flood in Grand
Canyon this spring; no jet-skiers protest in Canyonlands;
Cove-Mallard protesters sentenced; WIPP gets license to store
nuclear waste; oil and gas industry sues over ban protecting Rocky
Mtn. Front.
Mexican gray wolves released on AZ-NM border; Sen. Larry
Craig adds logging rider to bill; Gov. Leavitt says foes of new
monument must pay for fight; Nev. bomb tests pricey; Idaho's Owyhee
Canyon not yet open; Danns in Nevada still graze without
permit.
Some mills in Oregon stay busy even as fewer trees are cut
in the U.S. by milling imported logs.
The General Accounting Office once again takes the Forest
Service to task for inefficiency and waste.
The small timber town of Detroit, Ore., turns its back on
its logging history to protect its watershed from
clear-cutting.
Nez Perce fire wolf man Timm Kaminski; Helen Chenoweth
defends property rights; Zortman-Landusky mine closes; Utah's
Lisbon Valley mine going ahead; Victor, Colo., gold mine must come
clean.
Locals and critics charge that Vail Associates is using a
ski area expansion as an excuse to develop the area and sell
valuable real estate at the expense of elk and lynx
habitat.
Idaho Gov. Phil Batt defends state; Stone Container Corp.
settlement; Oregon's Wes Cooley back again; Rep. Chris Cannon loves
Lake Powell; USFS buys Valles Caldera in New Mexico.
As the Forest Service gets a court OK to resume logging in
Idaho's Cove-Mallard, activists resume protesting and getting
arrested.
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency's decision to cap 130 acres
of radioactive debris with dirt on the bank of the Colorado River
near Moab, Utah, angers local residents.
Citizens About Airport Noise, Environment and Safety
protest Denver International Airport.
John Talbott, director of the Wyoming Game and Fish
Department, is caught fishing without a license - and then caught
forging a license.
After 17 years, the Utah Wilderness Association closes its
doors because of staff departures and financial troubles.
A brochure and video called "Abandoned Mines, Stay Out and
Stay Alive," seeks to educate people about the dangers of
unreclaimed abandoned mines.
Former New Mexico State Engineer Eluid Martinez will
replace Dan Beard as commissioner of the Bureau of
Reclamation.
A controlled week-long flood through the Grand Canyon may
help restore some of the beaches, sandbars and humpback chub fish
harmed by Glen Canyon Dam.
Colorado's Winter Park Ski Area denies the Forest
Service's charge that it packed Little Vasquez Creek with snow and
possibly wiped out the stream's cutthroat trout.
A captured Canadian wolf destined for release in Idaho is
killed after biting a biologist's thumb.
Economist Tom Powers' report, "Economic Well-being and
Environmental Protection in the Pacific Northwest," says the region
is thriving despite dire predictions.
New Mexico Hispanics argue with environmentalists over
firewood-gathering restrictions on national forests.
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