Boise, Idaho, open space; BLM to auction cattle near Elko,
Nev.; DOJ intervenes in W.R. Grace's asbestos disaster bankruptcy
in Libby, MT; ATV trail in Utah to be named after Rep. Jim
Hansen.
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Steelhead and salmon may be without critical habitat
designation; 1872 Mining Law reform; Gateway Communities
Cooperation Act proposed; hemp crop planted third year in a row on
Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers puts Columbia River
projects on hold after criticism on cost benefits; a 1,465-acre
parcel that is part of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic
Site has been turned over to Indian tribes in Oklahoma; Congress
refuses
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled April 23 that property owners
at Lake Tahoe are not entitled to compensation for a moratorium in
1981 on new building that was created to protect Lake Tahoe's blue
waters from erosion runoff.
Activists continue to fight against dams on the Bear
River, one of three sources that feed Utah's Great Salt Lake, in
their push for stricter water conservation along the Wasatch
Front.
Forest Service revokes its approval of Rock Creek Mine in
Montana; Nevada's fight against Yucca Mountain may be doomed; ARCO
will pay $87 million to treat toxic water in Butte, Mont.'s
Berkeley Pit; deadline approaches to ban Jet Skis in national
parks; A
Nuclear power plant may be built in Idaho; Bruce Babbitt
to head international division of Cadiz Inc.; Bonneville Power
Administration says salmon will get water this summer; Hanford
Nuclear Reservation; CO Rep. Scott McInnis wants single "fire
czar."
A serious drought in the Colorado River watershed has
California and Arizona wondering where the water will come
from.
Two new biographies of Edward Abbey - James Cahalan's
"Edward Abbey: A Life" and Jack Loeffler's "Adventures with Ed: A
Portrait of Abbey," add depth and life to the legendary figure of
Cactus Ed.
In an attempt to stem particulate air pollution caused by
dust from California's dry Owens Lake, water is being returned to
the lake bed for the first time in 90 years.
The Forest Service proposes an experimental program that
would create "charter forests" to be administered outside the
normal agency structure.
Nevada sues over Yucca Mountain; lawsuit against Enron
involves Taylor Ranch in Colo.'s San Luis Valley; Blackfeet Tribe's
wind-power project stalls; Mark Warren Sands sentenced for torching
homes in Ariz.; Steve Huffaker heads Idaho Fish and Game.
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt startles environmentalists with his
suggestion for a new national monument on the San Rafael
Swell.
Salvage logging plan for Montana's burned Bitterroot
forest meets approval; Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
line approved; experimental program would kill coyotes to save sage
grouse in Idaho and Utah; Steven A. Williams new director of
USFWS.
Activists are fighting a copper and silver mine planned
for underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in
Montana.
A revision of Grand Canyon National Park's River
Management Plan is back on track after former superintendent Robert
Arnberger dropped it in 1997 because of the controversy it
aroused.
Utah's Skull Valley nuclear storage site; Wyoming Game
& Fish bails on black-tailed prairie dog plan; lynx-hair fracas
continues; Arizona wants to sell power to New Mexico; La Verkin,
Utah, repeals anti-U.N. ordinance.
Utah Rep. Jim Hansen to retire; Kathleen Clarke confirmed
as new BLM director; Ore. coast coho back under federal protection;
Fort Irwin, CA Army training range expanded; Yellowstone ranger Bob
Jackson back to work.
The Arizona Supreme Court says the state land department
can't deny conservation groups the right to bid on state grazing
leases.
Aspen developer John McBride's North Forty housing
development aims to create a community for the ski resort's
'middle' class.
A General Accounting Office audit recommends that Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham wait several years to make a decision on
the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, until studies are complete
and serious questions answered.
ANWR drilling plan derailed in Congress; four dams on
Lower Snake won't be breached; Montana game rancher Lew Wallace
says he'll shoot his elk; Rocky Flats cleanup hits South Carolina
roadblock; lawless Thanksgiving in Imperial Sand Dunes,
Calif.
Sierra Nevada Framework upheld; Rebecca Watson, Interior
Dept., land and minerals mgmt; lawsuit on president's authority to
create new monuments dismissed; Bureau of Indian Trust Assets
Mgmt.; Torres-Martinez Band of Cahuilla Indians, Salton
Sea.
Environmentalists say the Interior Department yanked the
teeth from Bruce Babbitt's new set of hard-rock mining regulations
when it decided to go with a much-watered-down version.
Cheap Canadian lumber imports; Jack Blackwell regional
forester in CA; Biologist Gene Schoonveld fears research spread
CWD; ELF bombs BLM wild horse facility near Susanville, CA; Colo.
voters derail monorail proposal.
Native American Rights Fund wants Interior Secretary Gale
Norton charged with contempt; Bitterroot grizzly reintroduction
supported by public; Bonneville Power Administration ends power
emergency; BLM sued by ORVers; fee demo extension in the
works.
Earthjustice appeals ruling about difference between wild
and hatchery salmon; Klamath farmers apply for relief; Idaho
Supreme Court denies water to wildlife refuge; Mark Rey confirmed
as undersecretary of Ag for Natural
Resources/Environment.
Former Dinosaur National Monument Superintendent Dennis
Ditmanson's attempt to resolve a long-lasting grazing conflict with
the ranching Mantle family leads to criticism from staffers and
environmentalists.
Three books on Western firefighting are reviewed: "The
Season of Fire" by David J. Strohmaier; "Year of the Fires" by
Stephen J. Pyne, and "Wildfire: A Reader," edited by Alianor
True.
The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony of Hungry Valley, Nev., is
fighting Oil-Dri Corporation's plan to mine clay on nearby public
land and process it into kitty litter.
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