To avoid an environmental lawsuit and placate angry
farmers, Albuquerque and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
will sell enough reservoir water to the drought-plagued river to
keep endangered silvery minnow alive and ditches flowing until
fall.
Items by Greg Hanscom
Bike-shop owner Portia Masterson meets Paonia bike-cop
Neal Schwieterman.
After an M-44 cyanide trap put on their land by a
government trapper kills the family dog, Paul and Lee-Ann Wright
sue the federal government.
A comparison of the different fees for recreational use in
different national forests, national parks and recreation areas
around the West.
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt backs West Desert Wilderness Bill;
Jon Marvel wins Idaho grazing leases; John McCain's environmental
doubletalk; Grand Canyon forests partnership logging plan OK'd;
dams won't be built on Wyo.'s Dry Fork of Little Bighorn
River.
Around the West, Forest Service "listening sessions" get
an earful from environmentalists and offroad vehicle fans at odds
over President Clinton's plan to protect roadless
forests.
President Clinton announces an initiative to protect 40-60
million acres of unroaded national forests.
Some river activists and farmers worry that Subhis Shah,
chief engineer and CEO of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy
District, is out to start a "water-banking empire" rather than
conserve water.
The endangered silvery minnow is forcing the water users
of the Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico to reconsider the ways
cities, towns, pueblos and farms have always made use of the
river.
In his own words, artist and scholar Nicasio Romero talks
about the threats facing the centuries-old acequia farm culture of
New Mexico.
Salmon vs. traffic light in Puyallup, Wash.; two male
sockeye journey up Salmon River; Church Universal & Triumphant
gives USFS winter bison range; BLM told to be quicker getting cows
off damaged land; Utah's Capitol Reef N.P. buys grazing
allotment.
Environmentalists and other critics are irate at Sen. John
McCain's proposal to allow the military use of 3 million acres of
public land in Arizona and New Mexico, including the Cabeza Prieta
National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
The "Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas" and a set of CD-Roms
called "Better Birdwatching in Colorado" are excellent resources
for Colorado birdwatchers.
This spring 50 wolf cubs born at Yellowstone; In Nev., a
bill would allow manufactured homes into exclusive neighborhoods;
Gray Ranch, N.M., wants prairie dogs from Mexico; nuclear industry
seeks support for Yucca Mtn.; no alcohol in Fort Peck Res.,
MT.
BLM fines stray cows along San Pedro in Ariz.; stray bison
near Yellowstone not protected by new wildlife plan; new bus system
slated for Yosemite hits speed bump; voluntary June climbing ban at
Devil's Tower; plans to buy Loomis forest in Wash.
Critics say that Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard's Spanish
Peaks wilderness bill leaves a road unprotected - a "cherry stem" -
that will benefit developer Tom Chapman, who owns a mining claim at
the end of it.
Rep. Jim Hansen of Utah snatches bill HR 1500 from Utah
Wilderness Coalition for his own bill; Wyo. Sen. Craig Thomas wants
to stop gov't from getting more land; first radioactive waste goes
to WIPP; Colo. House committee kills corporate hog-farming
bill
In his own words, conservation biologist Michael
Soulé discusses the responsibility of scientists to restore
wilderness and preserve wildlife.
In his own words, Dave Foreman - who helped found Earth
First! - discusses blending poetry with science to save wildlife
through The Wildlands Project.
An air tour of west-central New Mexico flies over the
region's "sky islands" - isolated mountain ranges rich in
biological diversity that activists and scientists are trying to
preserve.
Extra photos that go with lead article
Earth First! founder Dave Foreman and conservation
biologist Michael Soulé founded The Wildlands Project, a
scientifically based plan to save endangered wildlife by restoring
and reconnecting the scattered islands of wilderness remaining in
the West.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt held in contempt of court
for stonewalling a class-action lawsuit aimed at tracking down
billions of dollars his department collected from grazing, oil, gas
and timber on Indian reservations.
"More Dogs on Main Street" by Tom Clyde is a collection of
often humorous newspaper columns focused on the transformation of
Park City, Utah, from a rough mountain town to a posh ski
resort.
At public hearings on BLM's draft management plan for
Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante Nat'l Monument, the agency has
introduced new "town meeting" format which limits comments to
written rather than spoken - a change activists deem a blow to
democracy.
Some locals are pleased and some environmentalists
displeased with the BLM's proposed management plan for Utah's new
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
BLM Director Pat Shea promoted to Acting Deputy Ass't
Sec'y for Land & Minerals Mgmt.; Sierra Club's Carl Pope;
Calif. police excused for dousing protesters w/ pepper spray; fifth
Mexican wolf found dead in Southwest; snipers kill cows in Moses
Lake, WA.
Forest Service finds bomb in Driggs, Idaho; Vail ski
resort denies arson will harm skiing; BuRec tightens security at
Western dams; Elko County, Nev., crews bulldoze a USFS road along
the Jarbidge River.
Environmental groups and the U.S. government offer a
$25,000 reward for the arrest of whoever has been killing the
Mexican wolves recently reintroduced in Arizona and New
Mexico.
Coeur d'Alene Tribe gets to retain control of one-third of
its namesake lake; San Juan, County, Wash., bans jet skis; Atlas
Minerals Corp. files for bankruptcy; Oregon farmers will get
subsidies for planting trees along waterways.
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
- Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
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