Dubois, Wyo., environmentalists are frustrated by the lack
of local interest in and opposition to the Forest Service's plans
to open almost 1 million acres of the Shoshone National Forest to
oil and gas exploration.
Items by Gabriel Ross
"Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental
History," edited by Carolyn Merchant, is a useful history that
activists will find inspirational.
Environmentalists and the Forest Service oppose a private
company's plan to dam the Dry Fork of the Little Bighorn River in
Wyoming.
"Planning Trails with Wildlife in Mind: A Handbook for
Trail Planners," a publication from Colorado State Parks, offers
suggestions on how to keep hiking trails from interfering with
wildlife.
A new group called WARR: Women/Wives Against the Railroad
is fighting to protect railroad employees who are overworked and
exploited by the Union Pacific.
A clean-air activist who helped end bluegrass-field
burning near Spokane, Wash., is now tackling the practice of
wheat-stubble burning on eastern Washington's farmlands.
Idaho rancher Bob Piva says he will subdivide and sell his
160 acres in the Stanley Basin, unless the Forest Service - which
has been trying to protect the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
from development - meets his asking price.
An exhibit gathers photographs that Mabel Souther, a ranch
manager's wife, took a hundred years ago on the Big Red Ranch in
northeastern Wyoming.
The Sierra Club's report, "The Dark Side of the American
Dream: The Costs and Consequences of Suburban Sprawl," neglected to
cover many sprawling Western cities, such as Salt Lake
City.
Colorado environmentalists halt two roadless-area timber
sales, the Trout Mountain sale in the Rio Grande National Forest
and the Sheep Flats sale in the Grand Mesa National
Forest.
An unusual theater group, Human Nature, tries to ease
things between environmentalists and loggers with musical comedy
and satire.
In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, a flood reveals more than
2,000 dinosaur tracks in a gully.
- The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences
- Deaths renew calls for national parks to rescind BASE jumping bans
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- When COVID hit, a Colorado county kicked out second-home owners. They hit back.
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