Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck resigns; Northern
Rockies' spring mushroom boom; Yosemite's public bus system; new
protection for California deserts; wolves may move to
Utah.
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
New Mexico rancher Sid Goodloe has started the Southern
Rockies Agricultural Land Trust to convince his neighbors that
conservation easements to preserve private land are a fine
idea.
In "True Tales from Another Mexico," journalist Sam
Quinones explores the "unofficial Mexico" and its stubborn
innovators, risk-takers and rebels, whose stories seldom make the
news.
Analyzing election's growth-related measures; Gale Norton
will keep new monuments, with some changes; agencies ordered to
study antelope in Ariz.; tentative agreement on Jarbidge River road
in Utah; Pueblo activists fight proposed cement plant.
"Divided waters" lead story; Sandy Tolan's radio advice;
reader feedback; HCN business folk; congratulations to Chip Giller
and correction.
Idaho's first predator-control policy allows an aggressive
approach, with a current plan to kill at least 75 bears and 10
mountain lions near the Lochsa River in an attempt to boost elk
numbers.
The Nez Perce tribe's success in wolf recovery is one of
many stories of successful and innovative wildlife management by
Indian tribes.
Changing times for tribes; HCN potluck in Phoenix; a look
at HCN's books; Stephen Pyne talks about fire.
In Idaho, the Nez Perce have become the first tribe to
oversee the statewide recovery of an endangered species, the gray
wolf, an experience that is energizing the tribe's own political
and spiritual recovery.
West's population is booming; Summitville's Robert
Friedland to pay cleanup penalties; national standards for organic
foods set; Molycorp mine in Questa, N.M., must stop dumping in Red
River; Babbitt proposes three more national monuments.
"Atomic Farmgirl: The Betrayal of Chief Qualchan, the
Appaloosa and Me," is Teri Hein's memoir of growing up in eastern
Washington, on farmland contaminated by nuclear weapons production
at Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Marchers commemorate anniversary of World Trade
Organization protests; Julia Butterfly Hills' redwood tree
attacked; Santa Fe starts logging its watershed; Northern Utes
regain 85,000 acres of land in Utah; Colorado bans sport-hunting of
prairie dogs.
Among the Western election results highlighted are the
failure of anti-sprawl initiatives in Colorado and Arizona, a ban
on game farms in Montana, and legislative races in Montana, Idaho,
Utah and Colorado.
Ariz. polls show anti-sprawl initiative losing; in Wash.,
anti-tax business Tim Eyman has 2 new initiatives on ballot after
measure last year ruled unconstitutional; OR Voters Guide 376 pp.
long; Sen. Slade Gorton, says media hurts re-election
chances.
Fearing more last-minute monument designations, Westerners
have begun working with the Clinton administration to find other
ways to protect public lands.
Chris Pague of The Nature Conservancy has been following
migratory birds from Colorado to Mexico to help come up with a
conservation plan.
VP candidate Cheney decries solar-power tax relief; Pat
Buchanan calls protesters at Denver's Columbus Day parade
"neo-fascists"; Wash. voters split over antitrapping initiatives;
Ariz.'s Prop. 102 would hamper wildlife; in Ariz., a vote on
development.
HCN's Michelle Nijhuis interviews Green Party presidential
candidate Ralph Nader on Western environmental issues and the
upcoming election.
Green Party candidate Ralph Nader has split Western
environmentalists, who are torn between supporting a man many
admire as a hero, and voting for Democratic candidate Al Gore, who
also has environmental credentials and perhaps a chance at
winning.
In Colorado, the Responsible Growth Initiative, Amendment
24, is facing fierce opposition from the real estate industry and
from many town and county officials who fear the elections it would
require would be too expensive.
Our election issue; Sarah Hauze and HCN's "intern
project"; visitors; HCN readings in Durango and Telluride; "Burma
Shave lives again"; where to hear Radio High Country
News.
Bush and Gore fight for New Mexico; Sierra Club goes after
Bush in Spanish in N.M.; in Utah, Jim Matheson, D, leads Derek
Smith, R; in Montana, Dems rally Indians; Friends of the Earth
rebut Washington Republicans.
In Montana: Brian Schweitzer vs. Conrad Burns, and race
for Rick Hill's seat; Idaho's boring election; in Washington,
Deborah Senn and Maria Cantwell fight for Slade Gorton's seat;
Oregon's Measure 7 is about "takings."
Some say the Republican push to repeal estate taxes could
impact land-preservation measures such as easements, since some of
the wealth affected by the tax is land, not money.
President Clinton announces a $1.5 billion plan for fire
recovery and forest restoration in the nation's neglected,
fire-prone national forests.
During the huge fires, Colorado neighbors Mesa Verde Nat'l
Park and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park worked together and
improved their historically unfriendly relationship, while the town
of Cortez realized anew its economic dependence on the
parks.
In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, good intentions are
responsible for the introduction of exotic buffelgrass – but
all the good intentions in the world may not be enough to save the
desert now that this invasive and fire-prone plant is
spreading
On the California-Mexico border, environmentalists from
two countries are working to restore the Colorado River
Delta.
An introduction to the special issues on the Salton Sea
and the Colorado River Delta points to signs of life in an abused
landscape in Southern California and Mexico.
The Salton Sea became the Salton Sea in 1905, when human
accident flooded the desert; now its survival is uncertain, as
demand for scarce water continues to grow in Southern
California.
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