Environmentalists say Utah Rep. Chris Cannon's bill
designating San Rafael Swell wilderness is really an
"anti-wilderness bill'' that needs to be opposed.
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson vetoes funds earmarked for staff
biologist positions in endangered species protection and
environmental education.
Western Gamebird Association joins Forest Guardians in
lawsuit tackling overgrazing in Arizona.
In Colorado's Wet Mountain Valley, activists fight a
Colorado Airspace Initiative that would allow more frequent
overflights for military training.
Some Utah Navajos say the state of Utah has cheated the
tribe of at least $52 million in oil and gas money.
A surprising agreement between Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt trades state-owned school trust
lands in Grand Staircase-Escalante for federal lands elsewhere in
Utah - and everyone seems to be happy about it.
The Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality is in turmoil
as employees complain and quit the agency, citing "lousy
management" and manipulation that favors industry.
Some environmentalists say a bill making it easier for
outfitters to get permits on federal lands would give commercial
interests too much power over public lands.
The General Accounting Office reports that the Dept. of
Energy has not found out enough about the soil between the water
table and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation's leaking tanks to make
environmentally sound cleanup decisions.
The Forest Service agrees to begin removing cattle from
230 miles of streams in New Mexico and Arizona.
A draft report from the National Academy of Sciences
confirms that 30-40 percent of Yellowstone bison test positive for
brucellosis but concludes that the risk of them infecting cattle is
almost nonexistent.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, in an attempt to protect
salmon while keeping them off the endangered list, runs into
problems when the National Marine Fisheries Service seeks stricter
standards.
A plan by the Animal Damage Control Agency (recently
renamed Wildlife Services) would allow coyotes to be shot from
helicopters, even if the animals are not bothering
livestock.
The EPA fines ASARCO $62 million with most of the money
going to clean up a copper mine in Ray, Ariz., and a smelter in
East Helena, Mont.
The radioactive uranium tailings on the banks of the
Colorado River near Moab, Utah, may be moved to protect the
endangered squawfish from contaminants in the river.
Utah's remote and little known Book Cliffs area seemed
ripe for preservation under an innovative, locally grown initiative
- until oilman Oscar Wyatt stepped in to challenge it.
An audit shows that money intended for Colorado state
wildlife programs has been spent to buy land for prisons in Rifle
and Delta.
The National Park Service is being sued by three
environmental organizations for allowing private "bioprospecting"
in Yellowstone National Park and backing off from its mandate to
protect the park's resources.
Members of five Native American tribes are protesting the
government's plan to store nuclear waste in Ward Valley,
Calif.
The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, which thrives in the
same habitat as houses and developments, could bring growth on
Colorado's Front Range to a halt if it is listed as
endangered.
The controversial Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near
Carlsbad, N.M., is scheduled to open to store nuclear waste this
spring.
Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck says there are over
60,000 miles of unmapped "ghost roads" in national
forests.
ASARCO's plans to mine copper in Arizona's Santa Rita
Mountains have been put on hold.
The Snow Creek golf course in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., has a
permit to turn 95 acres of the Inyo National Forest into an
expansion of the golf course.
Trout Unlimited is trying to restore native wild trout to
Colorado's rivers and lakes.
The Clinton administration's proposed moratorium on road
building in roadless areas is meeting criticism from the timber
industry, as well as from environmentalists who say the proposal
excludes too much land.
Zoologist Ronald Nowak resigns from the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service in protest over the agency's failure to do its job
listing and protecting threatened species such as the Canada
lynx.
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