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Items by Kayley Mendenhall
The Washington state health department bans shellfish
harvesting in Dungeness Bay, where the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
has fished for years, because the water is polluted with fecal
coliform bacteria from an unknown source.
A Wilderness Society report says that off-road vehicle use
is one of the most serious threats to wild places.
New research suggests that trout that spawn in cooler
water may be protected from whirling disease.
"Religion and the Forests," a new publication by the
California-based Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation, calls
for an end to commercial logging on public forests.
A report from the Government Accounting Office says that
land exchanges by the Forest Service and BLM are rarely in the
public's best interest.
The Chatfield Basin Conservation Network brings together
businesspeople, county officials, road builders and
environmentalists to preserve open space and wildlife habitat south
of Denver, Colo.
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell proposes a national historic
site for southeastern Colorado, where women, children and elderly
Indians were killed by cavalry in the Sand Creek
Massacre.
Pueblo, Colo., citizens, who worked for years to restore
air and water polluted by their city's one-time steel mills, now
fear a planned cement manufacturing plant will make their newly
livable community unlivable and polluted once again.
Two ranchers give up their grazing privileges on Idaho's
Boise National Forest, blaming rules to protect spawning habitat
for endangered salmon.
Mike Kahn is riding his bike from California to Maine, and
using his laptop computer along the way to educate children about
the natural world that he sees on his journey.
An EPA report reveals that some children of Washington
state farm workers show elevated levels of pesticide
exposure.
Mary Taylor Young's book, "On the trail of Colorado
Critters," teaches children about how to watch and understand wild
animals.
Southern California is trying to reduce diesel emissions
by turning to cleaner-burning energy sources for public
vehicles.
Local farmers are fighting a proposed gravel mine on 550
acres of fertile farmland near the Willamette River north of
Eugene, Oregon.
Biologist Nikolle Brown is seeking photographs and
information on any reptiles seen in the Grand Canyon for her Snakes
of the Grand Canyon Identification and Distribution
Project.
A proposed land swap by the Colorado State Land Board
would trade the Little Cochetopa Creek School Section near Salida
to a Kansas developer, a move critics say would harm elk and deer
habitat and end local access.
The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, until recently
thought to be part of New Mexico's state government, is actually a
federal agency, and could be forced to keep enough water in the
river to protect the endangered silvery minnow.
A California environmental group says that building a
Buddhist retreat center in Morse Canyon near Rancho Cucamonga would
harm endangered species, especially the California gnatcatcher and
the kangaroo rat.
In Colorado's San Juan Mountains, locals are trying to
preserve a historic ghost town, Ironton, from
development.
"El Valle," a new monthly newspaper in the Four Corners
area, combines English and Spanish to focus on the lives and
concerns of Hispanic people in the area.
"Mount St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano"
by Rob Carson paints a compelling picture in words and photos of
the 1980 eruption and its consequences.
Hardrock mining tops the list of industrial polluters in
the EPA's annual Toxics Release Inventory.
The Save Ward Valley Coalition closes its office, saying
the group has made "tremendous steps toward victory," in fighting a
proposed nuclear-waste dump in Ward Valley, California.
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