Dale Shewalter's group, the Arizona Trail Association, has
been working since 1988 on establishing a north-south route all the
way across Arizona.
Items by Matt Jenkins
In "Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal
Traditions," writer Andrew Gulliford explores Indian attempts to
preserve tribal traditions, identity, language and sacred
landscapes.
Twenty Sheridan, Wyo., four-wheelers have been fined for
destroying national forest land last June during their annual
"Spring Run" across the Bighorn National Forest.
The Bush administration says it will stand by Clinton's
"Tulloch Rule," which requires a permit for using earthmovers to
excavate wetlands.
On Arizona's Coconino National Forest outside of
Flagstaff, foresters are working to thin the overgrown, doghair
woods to prevent catastrophic wildfires.
A small rural town on Colorado's Western Slope, Fruita is
fighting to save its agriculture and avoid the sprawling growth of
nearby Grand Junction, using innovative planning and the transfer
of development rights to keep a three-mile open-space
buffer.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and
Wilderness Watch are challenging a microwave repeater tower in
Death Valley National Park that was put up without any
environmental assessment.
The Conservation Fund and the Catto Charitable Foundation
are honoring Nancy Russell, founder of the Friends of the Columbia
Gorge, for her work to protect the Gorge.
In the new global economy, U.S. sawmills are going out of
business, unable to compete with cheap timber coming from Canada,
where environmental regulations are much looser.
The new Boulder Area Sustainability Information Network
(BASIN) Web site gives water quality and other environmental
information on Boulder, Colo.'s Boulder Creek watershed.
With the Bonneville Power Administration saying that it
can't meet demand over the next five years, Washington's Gov. Gary
Locke has announced a plan to encourage energy efficiency,
conservation and diversification.
Environmentalists say a bill intended to speed up the dam
relicensing process at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
might lead to inadequate environmental assessments.
A Supreme Court decision has stripped federal protection
from about one-third of the nation's wetlands.
Grand Canyon's plan to cut traffic in the park by building
a light-rail train system has been derailed because of its cost,
and the park has been told to use buses instead.
Right after taking office, Pres. Bush put a freeze on
Clinton's last new regulations -- the USFS's roadless plan, Mexican
owl critical habitat, and other environmental rules -- giving the
new administration time to review and maybe overturn
them.
The BLM has released a new plan for managing off-highway
vehicle use on public lands across the country.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dropped the swift
fox as a candidate for endangered species listing.
Settlement of a recent lawsuit filed by Bluewater Network
may eliminate personal watercraft from the entire parks system by
2002.
The Clinton administration announces seven new national
monuments, six of them in the West, three days before George W.
Bush takes office.
"Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir" by Murry A. Taylor
tells the story of the sometimes "irreverent, vulgar, uncouth and
crass" folks who parachute in to fight forest fires in the
West.
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