To celebrate its purchase and renovation of the historic
Roxy Theater in Missoula, Mont., the International Wildlife Film
Festival is displaying 300 hand-painted ceramic tiles by artist
Melanie Jeffs, each representing a donation.
Items by Lolly Merrell
Eureka, Utah, a struggling former mining town, was named a
Superfund priority site in September, but the Environmental
Protection Agency is running out of funds for cleanup, and the Bush
administration shows no interest in replacing them.
Drought has brought to light a long-submerged sculpture:
artist Robert Smithson's earthwork, "Spiral Jetty," in the Great
Salt Lake
Two studies have come out, taking different sides on the
question of breaching three dams on Hells Canyon on the Snake
River, one by Idaho Power Company and the other by the RAND think
tank.
PBS plans to broadcast an award-winning film, Alcatraz is
not an Island, about the occupation of Alcatraz Island in the late
'60s by Native American activists.
HCN takes a state-by-state look at the most important
elections coming up in the West.
At the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, Calif.,
scientists, activists, artists and dreamers meet to talk about
sustainability and ecological and social restoration.
The Quivira Coalition is offering a workshop in low-tech
river restoration methods on the Dry Cimarron River in northeastern
New Mexico.
Photographer Andrew Harvey has created the Algodones
Photographic Tour to draw attention to California's Algodones Dunes
Wilderness Area and protect it from ATV use.
Geologist J. David Love, who loved and understood the
Wyoming landscape, dies at the age of 89.
As part of the United Nations' 2002: The Year of the
Mountains proclamation, a program on the problems facing mountain
peoples will be held in Silverton, Colo., Sept. 26-28.
The Culminating Conference for the year-long series,
Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West, is set for four
days in September in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Record-breaking heat and drought are frying the West, and
scientist John Harte of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in
Gothic, Colo., warns that this summer is only the kick-off for what
global warming is likely to bring.
Controlling the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer
and elk has developed into a major problem for Department of
Wildlife officials in Colorado, with critics appalled at the
agency's slaughter of the animals.
Because invasive and noxious weeds can spread by planting
popular wildflowers seed mixes available at nurseries and stores,
it is better to purchase separate flower species when planning a
garden.
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