A glossary defines some of the real estate-style concepts
behind land trust deals.
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
The land trust movement is bigger than the earliest groups
imagined, but the challenge the 250 Western groups face is even
bigger, as development swallows the last open space.
U.S. admits exposing nuclear workers to radiation; Gloria
Flora speaks in Kalispell, Mont.; Yellowstone Wolf No. 9 "retires"
from pack; Air Force sued over low-level training flights;
rancher's road permit in limbo in Arrastra Wilderness,
Arizona.
Activist and inspiration Hazel Wolf dies at 101.
Mary Belardo, chair of the Torres-Martinez Band of Desert
Cahuilla Indians, talks about the Indian perspective on the Salton
Sea.
Longtime Salton City resident Norm Niver talks about the
need to save the Salton Sea.
Salton Sea State Recreation Area Superintendent Steve
Horvitz explains why the sea is so important.
Environmentalists win more than they lose as the battle
over the budget finally reaches a truce in Congress.
Helen Carlson's book, "Nevada Place Names," is a
delightful dictionary that untangles the stories behind the state's
place names.
A time line gives high points in the history of the
Antiquities Act, which since 1906 has been used to designate many
national parks and monuments.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has his eye on a
half-dozen other BLM territories in the West that he is considering
for greater protection before he leaves office.
A new sport called sandboarding is becoming popular in
Park Service wilderness areas with dunes, and some worry that it is
a form of recreation "not compatible with wilderness
values."
An Earth First!-related group in Eugene, Ore., called Red
Cloud Thunder, has published its fourth issue of a 20-page "zine
called "Expletive deleted."
Helen Chenoweth to wed Wayne Hage; Wash.'s Dawn Mining Co.
can't use radioactive dirt to fill old uranium mine; Baca Ranch,
N.M., to be sold to feds; a water block for Cyprus Amax mine in
western Colo.; trophy home near Columbia River Gorge must be
moved
In his own words, BLM Manager John Singlaub talks about
how to save Walker Lake by building partnerships with grassroots
organizations like the Walker Lake Working Group.
In his own words, Mono Lake Committee staffer Gary Nelson
compares the problems his group has successfully dealt with to the
challenges facing the Walker Lake Working Group.
In Nevada, Walker Lake is slowly disappearing, as local
farmers, an Indian tribe and conservationists battle over the
rights to the water that once filled the lake.
The tiny Preble's meadow jumping mouse, which was recently
listed as threatened, prefers the same habitat as developers do,
along Colorado's rapidly urbanizing Front Range.
Some facts about the threatened Preble's meadow jumping
mouse are listed.
Some facts about the endangered desert tortoise are
listed.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt explains why habitat
conservation plans are a great tool for making the Endangered
Species Act work.
A glossary explains words and phrases associated with the
Endangered Species Act.
Interesting facts about the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl
are listed.
An introduction to this special issue points out that
city-dwellers' usual support for the Endangered Species Act can be
severely tested when an endangered species is found in or near
their own backyards.
Longtime residents of Alberta Street and other
neighborhoods in Northeast Portland, Ore., have survived poverty
and drive-by shootings and now face a new challenge in the growing
gentrification of the area.
At least 200 young women have been murdered in Ciudad
Juarez while on their way home from low-paying jobs at U.S.-owned
factories on the Mexican side of the border.
Chief ranger Scot McElveen says local people should not
receive preference in a natural resource owned equally by all
citizens.
Longtime Death Valley resident Janice Allen believes the
area is not helped by its designation as a national park.
Park enemies in Congress reduced the budget for the new
Mojave National Preserve to one dollar - an extreme example of the
way Congress often creates parks and monuments but is reluctant to
provide any money to support them.
Death Valley Park Superintendent Dick Martin says the park
rangers are heroes.
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