Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area has long seen
trouble between the Forest Service and private inholders, and
manager Paul Ries is on the hot seat for trying to protect the
area.
Items by Emily Miller
In Salmon, Idaho, a public hearing on the possible
reintroduction of grizzly bears reveals an almost-hysterical fear
of bears among many of the locals.
River outfitters protest the Forest Service's policy of
periodically closing Idaho's Salmon River to floaters to protect
endangered salmon.
A small pest control company's product, Rid-a-Bird, is
blamed in the deaths of two protected birds, a hawk and an owl,
after Weyerhaeuser uses it to kill starlings at its Longview,
Wash., paper mill.
A mapping project is set up in Oregon to identify sites at
risk for landslides, in an attempt to discourage both logging and
home building in dangerous areas.
Wolves have killed at least 30 sheep in six weeks in
Montana's Tobacco Valley, and despite being compensated by
Defenders of Wildlife, some sheep ranchers are furious.
In Utah, Canyonlands park officials and conservationists
are saying that an area slated for oil drilling, Lockhart Basin,
which is right outside the park boundaries, should be included in
the park and protected.
On Arizona's Tohono O'odham Reservation, a controversial
tribal council plan would build a casino on land where a
700-year-old village and graves are buried.
Lyle McNeal, founder of Utah State University's Navajo
Sheep Project, comes to a crisis with the university and files suit
against it over the future of his project to save the Churro
sheep.
The Department of Energy begins a series of underground
nuclear detonations at the Nevada Test Site, and environmentalists
and arms control groups protest.
Town officials in Forks, Wash., which has been badly hit
by logging restrictions, complain to the state government that they
were promised economic assistance.
The Forest Service revises its approval of a ski area
expansion onto public land in Telluride, Colo.
Five environmental groups say that oil and gas drilling on
the Shoshone National Forest threatens grizzly bear
habitat.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's draft plan to restore
grizzly bears to western Montana and central Idaho's
Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem faces opposition from Republican Sens.
Conrad Burns and Larry Craig.
A 10-mile stretch of lakes, creeks and a waterfall in
Lincoln County, Wash. - dry for a decade - come back to life this
spring as the drought ends.
The Forest Service prohibits scattering human ashes on its
land - and Native Americans object, too - but the remains keep
appearing.
Four workers at the Hanford, Wash., plutonium reclamation
facility say they are still suffering health problems after a May
14 accident at the facility.
Utah lawmakers try to push bills thgrough Congress to
limit the Antiquities Act and control management of the new Grand
Staircase-Escalante Nat'l Monument created with the Antiquities
Act.
The Forest Service reverses a climbing ban at Cave Rock in
South Lake Tahoe, Nev., despite Indian claims that the site is
sacred.
A forum intended to come up with a salmon recovery plan
loses support when four Northwest Indian tribes withdraw, charging
that the process favors hydropower, not fish.
A bill before Congress would end funding for new logging
roads in national forests.
Ninety-five species of Southwestern wildlife, proposed
over a year ago for listing as endangered, still have not been
evaluated.
Biologists and botanists from 30 different forests have
written a letter to new Chief Michael Dombeck, saying the agency's
ability to achieve its conservation goals is seriously hampered by
budget cuts.
New Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck and his plans for
agency reform face slow going on a rough road filled with
obstacles.
Air pollution from coal-fired power plants in Craig and
Hayden, Colo., is harming wildlife in the Mount Zirkel
wilderness.
Navajo ranchers are warming up to the idea of range reform
on their overgrazed, drought-damaged reservation.
A federal judge allows chemical weapons incinerating to go
on at Tooele, Utah, despite environmental warnings of the
dangers.
Utah Paiutes join environmentalists in protesting the
BLM's "chaining" of tree stumps to clear land in central Utah after
fires.
Meeteetse, Wyo., rancher Martin Thomas will argue in court
that he was justified in gunning down nine elk with an assault
rifle because of the threat of brucellosis to cattle.
Millions of pounds of leftover potato sludge dumped by the
Idaho Pacific potato processing plant in Ririe, Idaho, are creating
a messy, stinky problem, according to local residents.
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