Local critics are working to stop a much-touted "model"
development planned for the Ahmanson Ranch on the edge of Southern
California's Santa Monica Mountains.
Watchdog groups are worried that a Park Service photo
contest, organized and sponsored by Kodak, sets a bad precedent of
corporate entanglement with national parks.
Reintroduced Mexican gray wolves are continuing to die
along the Arizona-New Mexico border, and environmentalists blame
ranchers for the latest deaths.
"Raptor Room News: A Non-Scientific Journal of Goings-On"
is the voice of the Northern Rockies Raptor Center, which has been
nursing injured birds back to health for 12 years.
A National Academy of Sciences report on the "Long-Term
Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste
Sites" says that the Dept. of Energy still doesn't know how to
manage the more than 100 federal nuclear sites in the
country.
The residents of a small California town, Cambria,
successfully joined with a state-funded preservation group to
protect open space from a development planned by Hong Kong
investors.
The Cripple Creek & Victor gold mine near Victor,
Colo., is the largest open-pit gold mine in the state, and,
according to the Sierra Club and the Mineral Policy Center, is also
the state's biggest polluter.
Local watchdog groups are worried that radioactive waste
intended for temporary storage at Los Alamos National Laboratory
will be there permanently, as new waste arrives with no definite
future destination.
WaterWatch's recent report, "Rivers Without Water:
Oregon's Unnatural Disaster," offers suggestions for keeping more
water in the state's streams and rivers.
The latest version of Colorado's controversial Animas-La
Plata water project passed the Senate and could become a rider on
spending legislation when Congress resumes Dec. 5.
In western Colorado's Coal Basin, geologist Steve Renner
works with alternative high school students in the area he has been
working to restore as part of a Forest Service ecosystem-monitoring
project.
Fearing more last-minute monument designations, Westerners
have begun working with the Clinton administration to find other
ways to protect public lands.
Charles Wilkinson's new book, "Messages from Frank's
Landing," gives voice to the struggle of Nisqually Indian activist
Billy Frank, Jr., in Washington state.
When two Boulder, Colo., disc jockeys invited
four-wheelers to an impromptu rally at nearby Caribou Flats, the
resulting "Mudfest" wrecked private land and alpine wetlands and
stained the reputation of the state's ORVers.
The Western Regional Air Partnership has a plan to clear
the air over the Colorado Plateau, but critics say the plan is much
too soft and likely to prove ineffective.
A green lawsuit forces Black Hills National Forest to
refrain from logging one of its last roadless areas, and to protect
old-growth stands and designate wildlife study areas.
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