For environmental as well as aesthetic reasons, parks like
Grand Teton in Wyoming are doing away with wilderness outhouses,
and requesting hikers to use "poop bags" to pack out human
waste.
Items by Jon Waldman
In California, the International Mountain Bicycling
Association is leery of a new proposal to designate two and half
million acres of wilderness in the state.
Tension is rising between Mexico and the U.S. over the
little water left in the drought-stricken Rio Grande.
In the drought-stricken West, water cops, singing
governors and giant walking raindrops are just some of the odd
measures spawned by water-conservation campaigns.
At Roosevelt Lake in Arizona, endangered southwestern
willow flycatchers are actually thriving as the water level drops
and willow and tamarisk take over.
Veritas DGC Inc. has released a draft EIS proposing oil
and gas exploration in Utah's Book Cliffs.
The Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition plans to commemorate
the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with a
get-together examining the connections between the explorers,
Native Americans and salmon.
Conservation groups petition to list the white-tailed
prairie dog as endangered, but the species is unlikely to be listed
because the agency is laready backlogged.
North Dakota farmer Roger Shea hoped to prevent a dam on
the Maple River by giving the Chippewa Indians title to his land,
but the state Supreme Court rules that the state may condemn tribal
land.
Fighting fire with fire is becoming more common in the
West, as the Forest Service uses prescribed burns to tackle
wildfires.
The proposed Wild Sky Wilderness Area northeast of Seattle
could be a model for future wilderness designations, based on its
diversity of tourism-based opportunities along with good
environmental stewardship.
The growth boundary to limit sprawl on Colorado's Front
Range, originated five years ago by concerned business leaders,
developers and government officials, has been revised periodically
to accommodate more growth, which critics say defeats the
purpose.
Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles is accused by
environmentalists of conflict of interest in his encouragement of
coalbed-methane drilling in the Powder River Basin.
The Hofer rainbow trout, a foreign offspring of the
Pacific rainbow, may be the answer to the cure for whirling
disease, but wildlife managers are concerned about introducing the
imported species, fearing it could displace native fish.
A report from the National Marine Fisheries Service
suggests exact numbers of wild salmon and steelhead needed in each
tributary of the Columbia for removal from the endangered species
list.
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