Utah newspaper photographer Dan Miller helped organize the
Bear River Watershed Council to "think globally and act locally" by
protecting the watershed in northern Utah.
Items by Kirsten Bovee
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe and the State of Idaho are
fighting in the Supreme Court over Lake Coeur d'Alene, with the
tribe claiming partial ownership of the lake under a 19th century
treaty.
The Metropolitan Water District's plan to tap aquifers at
Cadiz, Calif., for Los Angeles could harm the fragile groundwater
system that sustains the desert, including the Mojave National
Preserve.
The Yakama, Nez Perce, Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes
have agreed to a new system, under which their annual take of
salmon will be based on a sliding scale that adjusts to wild salmon
returns.
In "Benigna's Chimayo: Cuentos from the Old Plaza," Don
Usner recounts the rich stories his grandmother used to tell him,
when he spent childhood summers with her in Chimayo, N.M.
Idaho irrigators are relieved that water rights have been
denied for the 94 islands in the Snake River that make up the Deer
Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
Under the new administration of George W. Bush,
Republicans seek to open Clinton's new national monuments to oil
and gas exploration and other uses and to revise the way monuments
are created.
"Voices from the Woods: Lives and Experiences of
Non-timber Forest Workers," an oral history compiled by the
Jefferson Center, documents the lives of Northwestern mushroom
harvesters, tree planters, herb gatherers and others.
Geoffrey O'Gara's book, "What You See in Clear Water,"
explores past and present on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation, and
describes the continual conflict over control of the Wind River
watershed.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been ordered to come up
with a plan to lower salmon-endangering high temperatures and gas
content in the Snake River.
Stimson Lumber Company says the Alaska National Interest
Lands Conservation Act entitles it to build at least 21 miles of
new road through endangered species habitat in the Selkirk Range of
Idaho and Washington.
The Colorado Natural Areas Program, which has been
cataloging rare animal and plant habitat and geological and
fossil-rich formations, may end this summer when its state funding
dries up.
A proposed Sierra Club initiative to end all public-lands
logging reveals the distance between urban environmentalists and
their rural counterparts in places like northern New Mexico, where
poor Hispanics rely on grazing small herds.
A new report by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy
at Arizona State University, "Hits and Misses: Fast Growth in
Metropolitan Phoenix," takes a hard look at the rapid growth of the
sprawling Sunbelt metropolis.
Salmon researchers are puzzled by their discovery that 84
percent of female salmon sampled tested positive for a male genetic
marker, suggesting that these females began life as
males.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 4.6
billion acres in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as critical
habitat for the Mexican spotted owl, but the Center for Biological
Diversity says that is not enough and plans to sue.
At the very last minute, the Clinton administration
releases its final version of the national forest roadless
plan.
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- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reintroduces bighorn sheep on tribal lands
- Pro-Trump riots won’t stop the winds of political change blowing in the West
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