David Brower quits Sierra Club; White River Nat'l Forest
plan gets avalanche of mail; judge says Army Corps of Engineers has
been ignoring environmental laws on Yellowstone River; acting
grizzly Bart dies.
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
Two recaptured packs of Mexican wolves will be released in
Gila Wilderness, N.M.; Atlas uranium tailings near Moab, Utah, kill
fish in Colo. River; Enviros battle coal-bed methane wells in
Mont.; Scott McInnis wants ski area in White River N.F.,
Colo.
The BLM is told it can turn down mines that harm
environmental or cultural resources after critics say Glamis
Imperial Corp.'s planned open-pit gold mine in southeastern
California will hurt Quechan Indian sacred sites and the threatened
desert tortoise.
Colette Kostelec of the Jefferson Land Trust talks about
trying to save land on the Olympic Peninsula near Port Townsend,
Wash.
Wendy Fisher of Utah Open Lands talks about how her land
trust group began in booming Park City.
Wendy Ninteman of the Five Valleys Land Trust in Missoula,
Mont., talks about the experience of her land trust.
Lynne Sherrod of the Colo. Cattlemen's Agricultural Land
Trust talks about how ranchers save open space. Rancher Jay Fetcher
came up with the idea of a cattleman's land trust when his family
began to look for ways to preserve their Yampa Valley
lands.
Carla of the McDowell-Sonora Land Trust describes how her
group tries to save land near Scottsdale, Ariz.
Rondal Snodgrass of Sanctuary Forest describes how his
land trust group has saved old growth in Northern
California.
A glossary defines some of the real estate-style concepts
behind land trust deals.
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.
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