Faced with federal budget cuts, forestry schools learn to
fund research through other sources and to collaborate with other
scientists.
Items by Lisa Jones
Western forestry schools slowly begin to reflect the
changes in modern forestry.
Undaunted by a third federal court ruling against the
University of Arizona's plan to build its large telescope on Mount
Graham, Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe drafts legislation to let the
construction proceed.
University of Wyoming law professor Mark Squillace is
cleared of charges that his work with environmental groups misused
university facilities.
Mount Graham has spawned such extremism that middle ground
is almost impossible to find.
The saga of Mount Graham demonstrates that the University
of Arizona's shortcuts, questionable tactics and attempts to get
around the law are ultimately responsible for creating an
impossible situation.
Former University of Arizona professor and one-time BLM
head Frank Gregg believes the Mount Graham controversy shows a flaw
at the heart of all universities when it comes to research and
money.
University of Arizona Ph.D. candidate in ecology and
evolutionary biology Mark Fishbein explains his objections to the
Mount Graham project.
Biologist Peter Warshall is the University of Arizona
faculty's most outspoken critic of the project.
University of Arizona professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology Conrad Istock believes an observatory may help
save Mount Graham.
San Carlos Apache activist Ola Cassadore Davis talks about
Mount Graham's sacredness and the coalition she founded to fight
for it.
University of Arizona vice president for research and
graduate studies Michael Cusanovich defends the university's Mount
Graham project.
HCN reader Pauline Sandholdt of Salome, Arizona, is
featured in a profile.
New Mexico State's Jerry Holechek believes public-lands
grazing has to be changed at the roots.
Kamyar Enshayan fights the industrialization of
agriculture often promoted by land-grant colleges.
Geneticist Wes Jackson calls modern agriculture a mistake
and offers a blueprint for reform.
Lyle McNeal tries to improve economic and environmental
conditions on the Navajo reservation.
Lyle McNeal of Utah State devotes himself to bringing back
the Navajo's Churro sheep.
The land-grant university system has been challenged and
is slowly beginning to change.
Sociologist Aaron Harp at the University of Idaho is
skeptical about the land grants.
Evergreen State offers full approach to diverse
agriculture
Washington's apple growers contribute $2 million to
research this year.
Scientists at land-grant colleges face budget
cuts.
Scientists work to find new ways to control codling moth
outbreaks in Washington's apple orchards.
Washington State University finds it difficult to change
when the funding is tight and people uncooperative.
The wilderness debate is forcing rural Utahns to confront their deepest hopes and fears.
The Forest Service claims parts of the Big Cimarron grazing allotment on the Uncompahgre National Forest are chronically overgrazed, and says the bulk of the area should be managed for recreation and the protection of its rivers and lakes.
The $590 million Animas-La Plata water project Congress reauthorized in 1988 continues to generate controversy in Colorado.
Rocky Mountain states bet on pipelines to get gas to the burgeoning California market.
Astronomer Peter Strittmatter defends observatories as
"benign places."
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