Some watchdog groups say the Pentagon is trying to avoid
responsibility for pollution from the perchlorate used in military
munitions
Items by Laura Paskus
The "American Wilderness Protection Act" will end
protection of wilderness study areas; reinstatement of "polluter
pays" tax loses in Congress; Fence Lake Mine in New Mexico to begin
construction; Homeland Security wallows up INS, Border Patrol and
other
Grassroots activism is credited with once more staving off
drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest
The military is seeking national security exemptions to
federal environmental laws on the 25 million acres of land it
controls
The Natural Resources defense Council examines the Bush
administration’s environmental record in the grim but
necessary report Rewriting the Rules: the Bush
Administration’s Assault on the Environment
Money is coming in for Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes
National Park & Baca National Wildlife Refuge; studies show
cumulative impacts of oil development on Alaska’s North
Shore; EPA ends water studies at Denver’s Lowry Superfund
site; General Accounting Offic
New Mexico keeps cockfighting and dogfighting; western
sage grouse not listed; too many Mormon handcart pullers in
Wyoming; Lake Powell and other reservoirs dropping; and Colorado
studies "Big Straw" and "logging for water."
In Native River, William D. Layman uses words and
photographs to explore an earlier era of the Columbia River, before
it was tamed and transformed by dams
Seventy percent of full-time National Park Service jobs
may go to private sector; northern pike still thriving in
California’s Lake Davis; traffic accident damaged nuclear
waste container on way to WIPP in New Mexico; Washington state
fears plans to down
BLM releases draft EIS on drilling in Alaska’s
National Petroleum Reserve; Pentagon plans more exemptions to
environmental laws; Terry Lynn Barton pleads guilty to Hayman Fire
arson; Interior gives green light to coal-fired plant near
Yellowstone; and st
Congress has exempted the U.S. military from an
international law , the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, in a move
environmentalists fear sets a bad precedent.
Judge rules against Forest Service on New Mexico’s
Copper Creek grazing allotment; Clinton’s roadless rule is
reinstated; Forest Service ordered to obey Montana Wilderness Study
Act; lynx arrive in Colorado for reintroduction and California Fish
and Game
In Nevada, the BLM has retained federal ownership of the
skeleton of "Spirit Cave Man," preventing both tribal reburial and
scientific study of it.
A judge’s ruling giving Kennewick Man’s
skeleton to scientists for study rather than to tribes for reburial
may actually undermine federal authority over excavation on public
lands.
New Mexico and the Navajo Nation tackle cattle rustling;
details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Plan
won’t be released; "anaerobic digester" in the works to clean
up hog-farm waste; Imperial Valley farmers refuse to sell water to
San Diego, Calif.
Beef checkoff rule upheld by courts; California red-legged
frog loses critical habitat; Hanford’s Fast Flux Test
Facility will not be shut down; Neal McCaleb announces resignation
as director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and EPA eases rules on
coal-fir
The "Brownfields" program, an offshoot of Superfund, is
designed to redevelop contaminated sites into real estate, but
critics say it is not always up to the challenge.
Most green initiatives fail in West; a few bright spots;
"Indian vote" helped Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., but not George
Cordova in Arizona; Sen. Wayle Allard, R, re-elected in Colorado;
Dems gain 11 seats in Idaho; Northwest keeps to status
quo
Whistleblower says Fisheries Service followed politics,
not science; decision to release water for the silvery minnow is
reversed; Farmers get money for destroyed crops; Report says Bush
admin. acted improperly when it overturned environmental
regs.
BLM allows seismic exploration gas in Utah; Chemical Depot
ordered to cease test burns; Colorado streams hit record lows; Sen.
Chuck Grassley asks why ranger was pulled; and National Treasury
Employees Union says no control of employees' politics
The Bush administration says the National Environmental
Policy Act needs to be "streamlined," but conservationists say the
act is in danger of being "steamrolled."
HCN takes a state-by-state look at the most important
elections coming up in the West.
San Gabriel Watersheds Study Act passes House; Sisters'
cattle removed from BLM land; Gold mine resurrected for land sacred
to Indians; Utah Rep. Jim Hansen makes deal to sell site to Mormon
Church; and Mont. Gov. says miners are "true
environmentalists."
Thousands of steelhead and chinook and coho salmon have
died in Northern California's Klamath River, and conservationists
blame the Bush administration's decision to lower river
flows.
Environmentalists are battling the Umatilla Chemical Agent
Disposal Facility in northwestern Oregon over its plans to burn
chemical weapons.
Groups appeal White River Plan; Wyoming Game and Fish
wants dual classification for gray wolf; judge orders BuRec to
release Rio Grande water; Interior Sec. and Assistant Sec. held in
contempt; woman's body strapped to hood of vehicle.
"Bovines or Biodiversity: The National Campaign to End
Abusive Public Lands Grazing," is this year's RangeNet conference,
set in Boise, Idaho, October 9.
A new report, the ATV Safety Crisis Report, blames
off-road vehicles for death and injury and suggests that their use
should be regulated.
A new study shows Columbia River fish to be contaminated
with chemicals that could harm the health of the Native Americans
that eat them.
A draft policy released by the National Marine Fisheries
Service in July does little to resolve the controversy over whether
hatchery salmon and steelhead deserve equal protection with wild
fish.
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