As suburban neighborhoods sprawl into California’s
agricultural land, residents are faced with pesticide drift and
other problems
Items by Michelle Burkhart
Illegal killing of grizzlies seems to be increasing in the
Northern Rockies even as Interior Secretary Gale Norton announces
plans to take Yellowstone’s bears off the endangered species
list
Budget crunches have thinned Forest Service staffing even
as visitor numbers soar, making it hard to enforce regulations such
as trail closures
Rep. Richard Pombo has inserted a provision in the House
budget bill that will reform United States mining law to allow for
the selling off of public lands
Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff is using the
recently passed Real ID Act to bypass environmental, safety and
labor laws in order to build a giant border fence south of San
Diego
The Forest Service’s claim that a recent court order
would suspend routine activities – such as cutting Christmas
trees or picking mushrooms – has been dismissed by the judge
as the agency’s attempt to blow the issue out of
proportion
Just hours before the California Department of Fish and
Game planned to poison a Sierra Nevada stream to help restore a
threatened trout, a federal court halted the controversial
project
Energy companies are planning to drill on open space in
Boulder County, Colo.
Books for Folks in New Orleans; fall interns Emma Brown
and Michelle Burkhart; clarifications and corrections
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- The residual power of Ammon Bundy
- Oklahoma’s tribes unite against a common foe: Their Cherokee governor
- Billionaires are changing communities and the wild in Wyoming
- Indigenous women face extra barriers when it comes to reproductive rights
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