Alaska Rep. Don Young, R, won't get his list of
environmentally inclined Forest Service staffers; giant omnibus
public-lands bill is defeated; Montana fines Canyon Resources Corp.
for polluting streams; Hanford "downwinders" lawsuit is
dismissed.
Items by Greg Hanscom
Environmentalists say that a land exchange that would give
500 acres of Forest Service land to Crested Butte Mountain Resort
in exchange for inholdings and other land is skewed in favor of the
ski resort.
Peregrine falcon goes off Endangered Species list; other
listed species now extinct; Audubon Society appeals judge's
decision to remove wolves in Idaho; Calif. pays $9 million for
poisoning Lake Davis; Kelsey Begaye runs for Navajo Nation's
president.
Alaska Republican Don Young puts pressure on Southwest
Regional Forester Eleanor Towns to reveal which of her staffers may
have ties to environmental groups.
Browning, Mont., banker Elouise Cobell uncovers a huge
financial mess involving billions of dollars of tribal money
somehow misplaced by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Using legal and financial savvy and the latest computer
technology, Indian tribes across the West are taking control of
tribal lands that have been in the hands of the federal government
and, often, non-Indian farmers for the last century.
SUWA's new slogan: "Protect Wild Utah"; Ray and Ron Pene
may not mine Westwater Canyon; Wayne Hage sues federal gov't.;
Louisiana-Pacific's Dana Dulohery gets five months' jail; Wyo.'s
South Pass listed by World Monument Fund as endangered.
Colorado organic rancher Mel Coleman rallies opposition to
proposed new federal standards on "organic" label that would allow
antibiotics and chemicals in so-called organic beef.
The nonprofit Global Exchange offers "reality tours" that
put tourists face-to-face with poverty and other problems,
including environmental issues.
The American Heritage Rivers Initiative, intended to help
rivers such as Colorado's North Fork of the Gunnison, meets
surprising opposition from Western conservatives.
Once a funky former mining town, Park City is now a
booming ski resort and bedroom community, and some locals worry
that the Olympics will only make things worse.
In his own words, John Cushing, mayor of Bountiful,
discusses his dissatisfaction with the Salt Lake City Organizing
Committee and his doubts about the Olympics.
In 1972, Colorado became the first city ever to win the
right to host the Olympics only to change its mind and slam the
door on them.
Salt Lake City has succeeded in its long, controversial
bid to host the Winter Olympics - but now that the Games are only
four years away, many Utahns are having second thoughts about them
- and the city's already rampant growth.
Parks may restrict jet skis; Yellowstone will keep Hayden
Valley trail open to snowmobiles; Delyla Wilson sentenced for
bison-guts protest; USFS to do land swap with Weyerhaeuser in
Wash.'s Cascades; John Mumma to retire from Colo. Division of
Wildlife.
The controversial "road improvement" of the two-lane road
through Utah's Provo Canyon faces accusations that a new road could
damage the Provo River - even as four major landslides are caused
by road crews.
Conoco gives up on oil well in Utah's Grand Staircase, but
the state School Trust Lands board is insisting that its land -
checkerboarded through the monument - must be managed to earn money
for the schools, and that may involve oil and gas
drilling.
Environmentalists appeal a huge salvage timber sale in
Utah's Manti-La Sal National Forest, and hope that an agency ruling
in their favor proves the salvage logging rider is dead at
last.
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance surprises some by
its opposition to the expansion of Utah's Arches National
Park.
Those who remember and still mourn for drowned Glen Canyon
find new allies in the fight to destroy the dam and restore the
canyon.
The first year of chemical weapons incineration at Tooele,
Utah, has been full of stops and starts, but the Army claims good
progress has been made.
The Moab area BLM started charging recreationists user
fees several years ago, when mountain biking in Utah began to grow
out of control.
River runners in Arizona's Grand Canyon feel unfairly
singled out by increasing fees to float the Colorado
River.
Forest Service officials admit that 10,000 acres of
supposedly "dead" trees offered for salvage logging on Idaho's
Payette National Forest weren't dead after all.
The BLM gives Conoco Inc. permission to drill for oil in
southern Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.
Three self-described environmentalists anger residents of
Springdale, Utah, when they decide to develop the nearby Rockville
Bench area rather than preserve it.
In their own words, ecologist Charles Kay denounces
Yellowstone's policy of "natural regulation," while ecologist Mark
Boyce defends it.
Scientist Richard Keigley studies Yellowstone's trees to
back up his contention that the park's elk herds are out of control
and need regulation.
Maverick ecologist Richard Keigley believes Yellowstone's
policy of "natural regulation" is not working and, in fact, is
harming the park - especially with the park's elk herds, which he
says are overgrazing their ranges.
A federal court upholds a six-week ban on 20 timber sales
and bars grazing from 11 Southwestern forests while judges consider
charges that the Forest Service has not protected endangered
species, including the southwestern willow flycatcher.
- 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
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- How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
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