London-based Sustainable Forestry Management will get
carbon dioxide emissions credits for funding the Flathead Indian
Reservation's work replanting ponderosa pines on 250 burned acres
of the Montana reservation.
Items by Laurel Jones
A new Web site created by the Oakland, Calif., nonprofit
Environmental Defense gathers information about environmental and
health dangers in any community in the U.S.
Almost entirely student-run, Western Washington
University's environmental magazine, "The Planet," uses local and
regional stories to address national issues.
In his newly revised edition of "Dictionary of the
American West," Win Blevins explores the lingoes of many different
Western subcultures in an entertaining manner.
Critics warn that plans to drill for natural gas may harm
New Mexico's remote Otero Mesa and the biological integrity of its
Chihuahuan Desert grasslands.
The brief essays gathered in Arctic Refuge: A Circle of
Testimony offer passionate arguments against drilling in Alaska's
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Jessica Sherwood's Feet First Program seeks to fight
Colorado sprawl and traffic by introducing schoolchildren to the
idea of alternative transportation.
The government's General Accounting Office criticizes the
$1.6 billion National Fire Plan approved by Congress last
September.
Four-wheel-drive recreationists protest the Forest
Service's new $5 per vehicle fee to enter Canyon Creek near Ouray,
Colorado.
The Colorado Wildlife Commission decides not to allow
live-cage trapping and shooting seasons for the swift fox, pine
marten and opossum.
Montana's Blackfeet Indians plan to build the first
large-scale wind-energy project on tribal land.
The EPA has taken Idaho rancher John Simpson to court for
clearing debris and beaver dams out of a channel of the Salmon
River, although endangered salmon have since spawned in the
channel, complicating the issue.
A bill before Congress will grant citizenship to Tohono
O'odham Indians, whose traditional land is divided by the
U.S.-Mexico border.
The Pueblo of Zuni has built a state-of-the-art aviary for
disabled and domesticated golden eagles, which will provide the
feathers the tribe needs for cultural and religious
purposes.
Crow Indians fear that rock art will be opened up to
vandalism if Anschutz Exploration Co. drills an exploratory oil
well and upgrades an access road in Montana's Weatherman
Draw.
The Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes on the Fort Belknap
reservation in Montana are split on the Montana Air National
Guard's proposal to drop dummy bombs on tribal trust
land.
A proposed expansion of the Army's National Training
Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., in the Mojave Desert could harm the
endangered Lane Mountain milkvetch and the threatened desert
tortoise.
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