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Items by Gail Binkly
Tribal infighting is delaying a wind farm planned for Gray Mountain on the Navajo Reservation.
Gail Binkly notes that environmentalists don’t
always drive what they preach
In his new book, The Worst Hard Time,
Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great
American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the
1930s
After long resistance to gambling, the Navajo Nation has
decided to allow casinos on the reservation
The writer asks which animals are more dangerous: wolves
or dogs?
The La Plata County commissioners have signed two deals
allowing energy companies to double the density of coalbed methane
wells near Durango, Colo.
After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in
Yellowstone National Park is an anthology of articles
chronicling the long-term effects of the 1988 fires on the
park’s ecosystem and wildlife
In Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wolf to
Yellowstone, biologist Douglas Smith and nature writer
Gary Ferguson seek to separate myth from reality in the long and
turbulent saga of the wolf
In "The Utes Must Go!" Peter R. Decker
looks at the tragedies that resulted when fear-mongering
politicians and settlers decided to oust the Ute Indians from
Colorado and Utah in the 19th century.
The Environmental Protection Agency withdraws a proposed
rule change that would have allowed fatal amounts of selenium in
fish.
In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, the fear of West
Nile Virus brings the controversy about spraying pesticides to a
boil
M. Lisa Floyd’s book, Ancient Pinon-Juniper
Woodlands: A Natural History of Mesa Verde Country, brings 23
scientists and researchers together to celebrate a little-known and
delicate ecosystem
Controversy over the long-planned Animas-La Plata Dam in
southwestern Colorado flares again, when the soaring price tag of
"A-LP Ultralight" becomes known
The writer plays God to a desert pothole filled suddenly
with tadpoles
Lea County, N.M., is courting Louisiana Energy Services, a
company that wants to build a uranium-enrichment facility to create
fuel for nuclear power plants
Plans to expand Four Corners National Monument onto the
Ute Mountain Reservation are being held up by the state of
Colorado, which refuses to join Arizona, Utah and New Mexico in
paying its share of the money
Colorado developer Tom Chapman is marketing an inholding
in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, advertising it
online on eBay while the federal government scurries to meet his
price
Something is amiss when a hiker’s gear costs more
than a fashion model’s
Gail Binkly wonders why pricey, high-tech "stuff" has to
drive outdoor recreation.
Phelps Dodge Corporation is at loggerheads with
environmentalists and the state of New Mexico over plans to clean
up the Chino Mine, an open-pit copper mine near Silver
City
American Indians have denounced a recent report defending
the Interior Department’s trust account
transactions
Forest thinning and prescribed burns helped slow the
progress of Colorado’s Hayman Fire, but some
environmentalists fear forest thinning will be used to justify
increased logging
Vandalism and pothunting seem to be on the rise in the
recently created Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in
southwestern Colorado
A penny tax on containers could help fund the huge job of
cleaning up litter on highways and public lands
Fed up with energy companies and the BLM, several ranchers
in northwestern New Mexico have locked their gates, blocking
private roads to natural gas wells.
Residents of the Canon City, Colo., suburb of Lincoln Park
are fighting the proposed delivery of radioactive soil from a New
Jersey Superfund site to the Cotter Corp. uranium mill
In southwestern Colorado, a judge has temporarily halted
the use of seismic "thumper trucks" to explore for oil and gas in
the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
Near Farmington, N.M., some local ranchers and
environmentalists are fighting a push to greatly increase oil and
gas drilling in the area's San Juan Basin.
A revised and scaled-down version of Colorado's
controversial Animas-La Plata water project appears poised to
become reality at last.
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