Vandals destroy computer disks containing Indian language
archives in Oregon's Warm Springs Indian Reservation, but with help
from many volunteers much of the irreplaceable material is
retrieved.
Items by Jamie Murray
Scientists in the Pacific Northwest have launched a study
of the white sturgeon in the Columbia River - North America's
largest fish.
Environmentalists charge that escaped hatchery salmon in
Puget Sound are a "living pollutant" that harms endangered wild
salmon and should be regulated.
Conoco begins drilling for oil on state school-trust lands
located inside Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.
The BLM's desire to use DuPont's pesticide Oust to kill a
weed called cheatgrass provokes controversy.
In Colorado, some say controversial wilderness-land
developer Tom Chapman may have goofed in acquiring two mining
claims in the Spanish Peaks wilderness study area.
In separate attacks by mountain lions, a boy in Colorado's
Mesa Verde National Park is wounded, and another boy, in Rocky
Mountain National Park, is killed.
N.M. Sen. Pete Domenici and Indian leaders are in a
stand-off over road building in Petroglyph National
Monument.
Yellowstone's reintroduced wolves are thriving - and
reproducing - in the park.
Vail Associates' plans for night skiing on Colorado's Vail
Mountain are withdrawn after locals protest.
Environmentalists accuse the Forest Service of conspiring
with the timber industry in the logging of Idaho's Payette Nat'l
Forest, but a federal judge disagrees.
A watershed council, formed to manage Idaho's South Fork
of the Snake River, is in trouble because it refused to allow
environmentalists to be represented in the group.
U.S. Senate wants to begin using Nevada's Yucca Mountain
to temporarily store high-level nuclear waste.
A logging company defies a request from the Oregon State
Forestry Department that loggers voluntarily stop clear-cutting
slide-prone slopes above highways and homes.
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