The Lake County Open Space Initiative has preserved land
around Leadville and created trails for cross-country skiing and
other recreation, but some local politicians say it’s
snatching up too much private land and water.
Items by J T Thomas
A new book, "Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing
Race" by Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, and a
documentary film, "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the
American Indian" by Anne Makepeace, discuss the controversial
photographer.
A legendary Colorado journal, the "Mountain Gazette," is
being resurrected in Breckenridge, Colo., after two decades of
dormancy.
Kirk Hohenberger and other vocal raptor experts are
pushing utility companies to make power poles safe for the birds
that perch on them.
The Burning Man arts festival has asked the BLM for
permission for another desert arts gathering to be held Labor Day
in the Nevada desert.
The jet ski industry is pushing on the Park Service to
open more park sites for personal watercraft, but the National Park
Service and the Dept. of Interior can't agree on how to manage the
fast boats.
New Mexico's attorney general rules that water rights may
be held onto even if the water is not diverted from the stream to
be used.
El Nino's impacts on the West have varied widely and
unpredictably.
A judge upholds the right of the National Park Service to
ask rock climbers to stay off Wyoming's Devils Tower during June,
when Native Americans hold religious ceremonies.
A planned jetboat race up and down a 50-mile stretch of
the Yellowstone River in Montana is cancelled following a flurry of
criticism.
Following Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora's banning of new
oil and gas leases on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, Sen. Max
Baucus has a bill to ban oil and gas exploration on surrounding
forests as well.
New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici is trying to push a
controversial six-lane highway through Albuquerque's Petroglyph
National Monument.
The American Heritage Rivers Initiative, intended to help
rivers such as Colorado's North Fork of the Gunnison, meets
surprising opposition from Western conservatives.
The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission restricts
some high-tech hunting tools and tactics - although not as many as
hunter and activist Allen Weinert recommended.
The Wilderness Society and the Forest Service have
published reports that disagree entirely on how much money the
agency has lost through commercial timber sales in Washington and
Oregon.
A conservation effort will protect the water in Colorado's
Snowmass Creek, as well as nearby land and a trailer
park.
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