In an election that drew a lot more media attention than
actual voting, the Sierra Club membership votes down a
controversial anti-immigration policy.
Items by Heather Abel
"Golden Dreams, Poisoned Streams" by Carlos D. Da Rosa and
James Lyon, is reviewed by Heather Abel.
The Superfund Law was created to make sure companies clean
up the messes they make, but the system has glitches.
In his own words, former water-quality enforcer Kevin
Keenan criticizes the state of Montana for its favoring of the
mining industry.
A time line describes the decline and fall of gold mining
at Montana's Zortman-Landusky Mine.
Local activists fight a mining giant when they battle the
Zortman-Landusky gold mine on the edge of the Fort Belknap Indian
Reservation.
In his own words, retired rancher Land Lindbergh warns
against the damage the McDonald Mine would do to the
Blackfoot.
In his own words, mining geologist KD Feeback defends the
proposed McDonald Mine.
The Garland family in Lincoln, Mont., illustrates
Montana's love-hate relationship with mining, with Teresa Garland
in favor of the McDonald Mine and her sister Becky strongly against
it.
The statistics of a huge gold mine like the proposed
McDonald Mine are impressive, but the de facto city created will
last only 10 to 20 years.
Montana writers collaborate on a book called "Headwaters,"
hoping to protect the Blackfoot River from a gold mine.
McDonald mine owners, Canyon Resources, face problems
related to spills, finances and falling gold prices.
The proposed McDonald Mine on the Blackfoot River would
impact a landscape made mythic by anglers and Norman Maclean's "A
River Runs Through It."

Montana has long had a love-hate relationship with
hardrock mining, and the prospect of new massive gold mines is
bringing all the problems to a boil.
Babbitt on gambling; Charles Wilkinson's pro-logging;
Headwaters protesters; Portland's bikes stolen; Animas La-Plata
update; winter in Yellowstone; China Left timber sale; oil/gas
industry appeal Mont. ban; Dinosaur Nat'l Mon.; BLM's Mike
Austin.
Dr. Patrick Shipsey convicted in Oregon cow killing;
Goshute Indians want casino in Utah; Judge William Dwyer retires;
Yellowstone Chief Ranger Dan Sholly under investigation.
Sierra Club on immigration; USFS Christian group, ACROSS;
Kevin Gover to head BIA; Tyrannosaurus Sue; Colorado politics;
USFS's Charles Cartwright under scrutiny; Jim Baca new mayor of
Albuquerque; governor's race in Idaho.
Margaret Reeb agrees; Sen. Dan Young gets monument
documents; Eugene, Ore., Mayor Jim Torrey gets barfed on; Charles
Hurwitz gets pie in face; Reed Benson to direct
WaterWatch.
Animal Damage Control changes name to Wildlife Services;
Richard Riordan; Jeff DeBonis leaves PEER, Jeff Ruch takes his
place; People For the West and grizzlies; Zakkare
Garrett.
Helen Chenoweth, Barbara Cubin, Jim Hansen and Rick Hill
give Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay a tour of the West;
Bruce Babbitt, Sen. Slade Gorton on Elwha dam removal; convicted
Fife Symington resigns; Jane Dee Hull is Ariz. gov.; Ricky
Denesik
Greenpeace USA crashes and makes extreme cutbacks; Phil
Hocker leaves Mineral Policy Center; Ted Turner plans to breed
Mexican wolves on his N.M. ranch; Forest Service says no to checks;
Bill Yellowtail is reappointed to Denver EPA office.
Sen. Dale Bumpers and Rep. Elizabeth Furse plan to leave
Congress; Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund changes name; Mike Mease
travels in buffalo bus; Great Grizzly hikers trek to protect Mont.
bear habitat; Mormon Trail wagon train.
Looter gets break on sentence; Tate and Hodel replace Reed
in Christian Coalition; Wyo.'s Gov. Jim Geringer on endangered
ranching; Helen Chenoweth on "warm-climate community"; Hari Heath's
Benewah County group secedes; Dan Quayle gets Western
address.
Mining supporters outnumber environmentalists at a series
of meetings held in the West by the BLM to consider possible
changes in BLM mining regulations.
Babbitt borrows from Broadway; Moabites convicted of
pilfering artifacts, Billings, Mont., poacher fined; Al Schneberger
quits N.M. Cattle Growers' Assn.; Ruckus Society protesters
arrested; Adam Werbach and Bert Fingerhut head enviro governing
councils.
Tracing Summo USA's family tree can be challenging, since
it is wholly owned by Summo Minerals, a Canadian company, which
does nothing but own its American company.
In their own words, Kay Howe and Claudia Akers discuss how
their homesteading in Utah's Lisbon Valley turned them into
anti-mining activists.
A brief glossary on the 1872 Mining Law.
In his own words, orchardist Estevan Arellano speaks of
querencia - love of home - and how it is threatened by Summo's
planned copper mine.
The copper mining company Summo USA's plans to mine in
northern New Mexico and Lisbon Valley, Utah, lead a reporter to
follow what happens when local communities resist - and don't
resist - a hardrock mining project.
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