In The Black Rock Desert, writer William L. Fox and
photographer Mark Klett visit a remarkable corner of northeastern
Nevada
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
The Bush administration rolls back a Clinton-era
moratorium on RS 2477, a controversial old statute that some
Western counties have used to claim designated roads in wilderness
areas, parks and monuments
A day spent helping Mexican immigrants apply for matricula
personal identification cards leads the writer to believe that the
influx of workers from the south is not a threat to the
West’s environment.
The hour was early, the high desert air was fall-frosty,
and the coffee was, well, truly horrible. I'd arrived for my
volunteer shift at a Catholic church in the western Colorado town
of Delta, and I had a very bad feeling.
Wildlife biologists are looking at the ways animals adapt
-- or fail to adapt -- to developed areas outside of cities, such
as campgrounds, rural subdivisions and ranchlands.
Wildlife biologist John Marzluff is fascinated by the
crows and other adaptable wild animals that have made a comfortable
home for themselves in the suburbs and even downtown areas of
Western cities such as Seattle.
Lack of adequate storage for artifacts in museums
throughout Colorado and the West is creating a messy backlog that
could eventually stall construction projects on public
lands.
Land, Wind and Hard Words: A Story of Navajo Activism by
John W. Sherry tells the story of the Navajo grassroots
environmental group Dine CARE and the dedicated small group of
people who founded it, 10 years ago.
The Timbisha Shoshone have won control of 314 acres with
water rights in California's Death Valley National Park, and have
gained shared management responsibilities for another 300,000 acres
in the park, along with 7,400 acres of nearby federal
land.
Some Native Americans warn that the unexpected arrival of
money in the form of claim payments can have harmful impacts on
impoverished tribes.
After generations of struggle, the Western Shoshone decide
in a divisive election to accept land settlement payments from the
federal government in lieu of the tribe's ancestral lands, which
one spanned the Great Basin.
Utah Rep. Jim Hansen proposes half a million acres of
wilderness in western Utah, but in the same amendment would dump
hazardous waste in the nearby Skull Valley Goshute
Reservation.
Pulling onions alongside a Mexican field worker, the
writer describes the hard work and meager pay for a product that
will sell for 50 times what workers are paid.
Across the West, Native Americans are working to revive
vanishing tribal languages, using their elders and
language-immersion schools to try to gain fluent
speakers.
Winter break; Ray Ring writes on Montana; good books and
such; visitors; Radio HCN update; HCN gets honorable mention for
John B. Oakes award.
A new edition of "Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage" by
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy, reports the fascinating findings
of the University of Arizona's "Garbage Project."
In "Tony and the Cows," writer Will Baker investigates the
life and death of radical environmentalist Tony Merten, who was
accused of killing 34 cows and calves in New Mexico.
California ends electric deregulation; new wolf packs
found in Montana, Idaho; Forest Service overspends firefighting
budget; Western land trusts booming.
Kathleen Clarke picked as BLM head; USFWS and enviro
groups agree to speed up ESA listings; Mont. Gov. Judy Martz wants
to shrink Missouri Breaks monument; Bonanza, Ore., sues irrigators
and agencies for polluting its water.
The government's General Accounting Office criticizes the
$1.6 billion National Fire Plan approved by Congress last
September.
Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA); Interior Dept.
still in mess over Indian trust accounts; law firm hired by
government for Yucca Mtn. also lobbies for nuclear industry; Bush
may roll back Clinton-era restriction on coal-fired power
plants.
Fire czar Lyle Laverty; no gold mine on Wash.'s Buckhorn
Mtn.; EPA nixes radioactive waste storage in western Colo.;
utilities lobby for nuclear waste site on Goshute Reservation,
Utah; Las Vegas to dump more treated wastewater in Lake
Mead.
Clinton's roadless plan for national forests has stalled
out, caught in a Bush-era legal and bureaucratic
labyrinth.
A state-by-state rundown on state trust lands in the West
gives information along with acreage for surface and subsurface
area.
Greg Woodall and his sister, Carla, are focusing on
Arizona's state school trust land in their quest to save the desert
landscape around Scottsdale, Ariz., through the McDowell Sonoran
Preserve.
"Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental
Literature of the Southwest," an anthology edited by Scott Slovic,
is a fine and inclusive work that features familiar and unfamiliar
writers.
Fallout from Jeffords' party switch; Las Vegas' wastewater
poisoning Lake Mead fish; Green party may lose major-party status
in N.M.; snowmobile manufacturers fight Park Service ban; Colorado
land swap killed.
Environmentalists and land managers are girding their
loins to deal with President Bush's energy policy, which calls for
more drilling, pipelines, power plants and power lines on Western
public lands.
In their book, "Tunnel Kids," writer Lawrence J. Taylor
and photographer Maeve Hickey take a compassionate look at a group
of homeless Mexican teenagers who live amid a network of dirty,
dangerous tunnels on the Mexico-U.S. border.
The Bush administration is working to revise and weaken
Clinton's roadless area conservation rules for national
forests.
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