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Tribe's pines fetch clean air credits

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.

Laurel Jones Dec. 17, 2001 From the print edition

All's fair in smog and waste?

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.

Laurel Jones Nov. 5, 2001 From the print edition

Keeping an eye on The Planet

Almost entirely student-run, Western Washington University's environmental magazine, "The Planet," uses local and regional stories to address national issues.

Laurel Jones Sept. 10, 2001 From the print edition

Dictionary of the American West

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.

Laurel Jones Sept. 10, 2001 From the print edition

Gas industry gambles on New Mexico mesa

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.

Laurel Jones Sept. 10, 2001 From the print edition

Arctic Refuge

The brief essays gathered in Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony offer passionate arguments against drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Laurel Jones Aug. 27, 2001 From the print edition

Small steps for change

Jessica Sherwood's Feet First Program seeks to fight Colorado sprawl and traffic by introducing schoolchildren to the idea of alternative transportation.

Laurel Jones Aug. 27, 2001 From the print edition

Fire plan gets a scolding

The government's General Accounting Office criticizes the $1.6 billion National Fire Plan approved by Congress last September.

Michelle Nijhuis and Laurel Jones Aug. 27, 2001 From the print edition

Four-wheelin' for fee

Four-wheel-drive recreationists protest the Forest Service's new $5 per vehicle fee to enter Canyon Creek near Ouray, Colorado.

Laurel Jones Aug. 27, 2001 From the print edition

Predators keep their pelts

The Colorado Wildlife Commission decides not to allow live-cage trapping and shooting seasons for the swift fox, pine marten and opossum.

Laurel Jones Aug. 13, 2001 From the print edition

Blackfeet bet on wind

Montana's Blackfeet Indians plan to build the first large-scale wind-energy project on tribal land.

Laurel Jones Aug. 13, 2001 From the print edition

Wetland degrader swims in murky waters

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.

Laurel Jones July 30, 2001 From the print edition

Indigenous group seeks citizenship

A bill before Congress will grant citizenship to Tohono O'odham Indians, whose traditional land is divided by the U.S.-Mexico border.

Laurel Jones July 30, 2001 From the print edition

Birds for a feather

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.

Laurel Jones June 18, 2001 From the print edition

Indian rock art under the drill?

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.

Laurel Jones June 18, 2001 From the print edition

Tribe tussles over target range

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.

Laurel Jones June 18, 2001 From the print edition

Tortoises take on tanks

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.

Laurel Jones June 4, 2001 From the print edition

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