Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in talks with Army
Corps over Missouri River; Wyoming rancher Frank Robbins holds
protest rally; "Volunteer Grazing Permit Buying Act" in Congress;
and Interior ordered to pay tribes $2 million to make up for
drilling
Items by Laura Paskus
Former employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory are
seeking information about and compensation for serious health
problems caused by their work with radiation and other toxic
materials
Historian and professor Ferenc Szasz says comics were used
to reassure the public about nuclear issues during the 1940s and
‘50s
Los Alamos National Laboratory is booming, revitalized by
a new era of weapons development – but the state of New
Mexico wants the lab to clean up its old Cold War-era messes before
it starts making new ones
New Mexico joins states suing the Environmental Protection
Agency for weakening the Clean Air Act; new cleanup schedule for
Hanford Nuclear Reservation; court says wastewater from coalbed
methane drilling is industrial waste; and Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
be
Superfund runs out of money; Sen. Pete Dominici reneges on
promise to not drill in ANWR; Kwicksutaineuk Tribe in British
Columbia sues corporate fish farms; whistleblower Kevin Gambrell
fired from Farmington, N.M., Indian Minerals Office; company wants
to
In Albuquerque: A City at the End of the
World, V. B. Price looks at the promise and the perils of
a desert city that is still in search of an identity
Sandpoint, Idaho, business owners oppose Cabinet Mountains
copper mine; Wyo. Gov. Dave Freudenthal jumps on coalbed methane
bandwagon; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells agencies to police
themselves; and Columbia River dredging delayed again
While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency
itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction
Navajos shortchanged by oil and gas companies; Department
of Homeland Security buys Playas, N.M., as training ground for
response to terrorist attacks; Earthjustice sues to get details on
Interior Secretary Gale Norton’s anti-wilderness deal with
Utah Gov
The Earth Liberation Front takes credit for vandalizing
Hummers and SUVs at Southern California car dealerships, and an
SUV-owners’ group says environmentalists are to
blame
Salt River Project pulls plug on Zuni strip mine; three
dams to come down on Northern California’s Mokelumne River;
Forest Service burns through firefighting budget; and Karl Rove
pushed Interior to give Klamath River water to irrigators
The West is likely to be the loser under the new energy
bill just passed by Congress
Santa Fe writer Alice Corbin’s Red Earth:
Poems of New Mexico, is republished in a beautifully
illustrated new edition
Judge rules against Clinton’s Roadless Rule; New
Mexico calls off coyote hunt; Interior Secretary Gale Norton not
accountable for Indian trust funds; Joshua Hills development in
California stops; and Office of the Special Counsel has backlog of
whistleblo
As drought dries up the Rio Grande, New Mexico’s
congressional delegation goes after a court decision upholding the
endangered silvery minnow’s right to water
Klamath farmers have to cut back on water; hunters asked
to use lead-free ammo to protect condors; Interior Department forms
new appraisal office for land swaps; Indian activist Russell Means
crashes NPS dedication of Little Big Horn Memorial
The anthology When in Doubt, Go Higher
gathers thoughtful and adventurous essays from the Colorado monthly
magazine The Mountain Gazette
Colorado wants to follow Utah in wilderness rollbacks;
Mexican gray wolf shot by feds in New Mexico; captive northern
spotted owl dies after release to wild; future oil and gas drilling
could cause problems at WIPP; and environmentalists lose round in
fi
'Jeopardy' opinions, only issued when a project could
drive a species into extinction, heighten conflict between
conservationists and industry, and also between the Fish and
Wildlife service and other agencies.
Political pressure is affecting the way the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service manages its wildlife refuges, including the
National Elk Refuge in Wyoming
Pressure from ORV groups ended the temporary closure of
part of California’s Algodones Dunes to protect the
Peirson’s milk-vetch
Conservationists say Fish and Wildlife scientists bowed to
political pressure when they made decisions about keeping water in
New Mexico’s Rio Grande for the endangered silvery
minnow
Environmentalists say the Interior Department has
deliberately created a budget crisis, and is using it to avoid
making critical-habitat designations
Federal scientists are facing increasing pressure from
bureaucrats and politicians, and some are blowing the whistle on
what is happening in their agencies – among them biologist
Michael Kelly of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Congress exempts military from Endangered Species Act;
Fish and Wildlife Service approves mining project in
Montana’s Cabinet Mountains Wilderness; New Mexico lets
Phelps Dodge post "corporate pledge" in lieu of bond for three
open-pit copper mines; and G
A writer talks about seeing the West as an archaeologist,
and unearthing what’s "good and right"
General Accounting Office tells Defense Department to
clean up its mess; Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation wants wolves
de-listed, and names Peter Dart new CEO; EPA forbids its scientists
to talk about perchlorate contamination; and Energy Department will
lay
Animas-La Plata dam building begins; fish appreciate
removal of Washington’s Goldsborough Creek dam; 11th Mexican
gray wolf killed in Arizona; lamprey denied endangered status;
"stop work" order at Yucca Mountain ignored; and National Park
Service critici
BLM announces new policy for approving oil and gas
permits; black bear hunt still on in New Mexico; court says water
from coalbed methane wells is "industrial waste," Colorado gets
rights to water from Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park;
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