Jordan Fisher Smith’s Nature Noir: A Park
Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra explores a part of
California that is not easy to love
Items by Michelle Nijhuis
Inside an abandoned Air Force base on the Nevada-Utah
border, the Center for Land Use Interpretation houses a remarkable
museum of the West's human landscapes.
In Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White
Mountain Apache Family Life, anthropologist Keith Basso
collects the reminiscences of Eva Tulene Watt
Tree-ring scientists Tom Swetnam and Julio Betancourt
study past climatic conditions seeking clues to better forest
management
The art of counting tree rings requires a lot of patience,
strong legs, and a love of statistical gymnastics
The study of tree rings opens a window into the
West’s distant past, and warns us that the region’s
future may be dangerously hot and dry
The writer suggests sending a new kind of representative
to Congress
The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a new Colorado
nonprofit, is taking a local approach to the global problem of
climate change
Judge Clarence Brimmer strikes down Clinton's ban on
snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but
another lawsuit may still bring limits on traffic
The Bureau of Land Management’s National Landscape
Conservation System is underfunded, even though more visitors are
flocking to BLM- managed lands
In his book Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, Jon T.
Coleman explores the history of how the wolf was slowly transformed
from vermin to be cruelly slaughtered into a noble calendar
pinup
A new scientific study predicts that overall wildfire size
in the West will double by 2100 because of global warming
Global Warming is showing up in the West, in everything
from receding glaciers to shrinking pika habitat
Mountain pine beetles are attacking more forests and more
varieties of trees — and thriving at higher elevations than
ever before — and some scientists believe global climate
change is at the root of the problem
Charles Wohlforth looks at climate change in Alaska from
two cultures’ viewpoints, when he talks to scientists and to
the Inupiaq people in The Whale and the Supercomputer: On
The Northern Front of Climate Change
The energy bill is stalled for now as Congress wraps up
its business for the year, but a lot of anti-environmental
legislation has been passed in an end-of-season rush
A proposed expansion of Telluride’s mountain airport
could change the Colorado ski town forever, and not all the locals
want that to happen
Michelle Nijhuis suggests a new sport she calls Extreme
Canning
Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of
Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby,
Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American
Corporation
The Department of Energy says any new nuclear bomb factory
will be safer than Rocky Flats, but critics have their
doubts
The Bush administration’s plans to build a new
factory for nuclear bomb triggers could spark a brand-new arms
race, critics say
The hardscrabble desert town of Carlsbad, N.M. –
already home to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant – is brushing
aside the fears of environmentalists and arms-control advocates in
its eagerness to host the Bush administration’s planned new
nuclear bomb fac
In Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten
Walk Across Victorian America, author Linda Lawrence Hunt
celebrates a Norwegian immigrant’s 1896 journey across
America in an attempt to save her family homestead
Farmers in Western Colorado are considering the benefits
– and the risks – of biotechnology and "biofarming"
corn
In Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism,
Marion Nestle takes on the long and often shameful history of food
safety in the U.S.
Just as it seemed the local communities were starting to
accept the BLM’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,
the rise of conservative national politics has helped to revive old
grudges and stir up opposition
In The Underground Heart, poet Ray Gonzalez returns to his
hometown of El Paso, Texas, to examine the border country with a
thoughtful and sometimes angry eye
The BLM’s new National Landscape Conservation System
manages 15 monuments created by President Clinton, as well as 800
other protected areas
In "Dummy Up and Deal," H. Lee Barnes gives readers a
chance to peek behind the scenes in Las Vegas’
casinos.
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