Both Japan and the United States have grown complacent about the dangers of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Items by Oakley Brooks
California and the West decide to tackle global warming
through the market – by buying and selling carbon
The writer in Portland yearns for a dry spell
The Portland Green Map lists 800 resources and points of
interests to guide Portland residents and visitors who lean
green
Sudden oak death, a disease which has killed thousands of
native oak trees in Northern California, has appeared in southern
Oregon.
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.
The Red Feather Development Group works to bring to Indian
reservations low-cost, efficient housing, using straw-bale
construction.
"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.
In western Washington, a program called FarmLink connects
prospective farmers with current farmers who would like to sell
land.
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.
Maria Cantwell beats Slade Gorton in Wash. Senate race;
Democrats plow reservation roads in MT; Wyo. state Rep. Carolyn
Paseneaux charged with voter fraud; Ariz. House Speaker Jeff
Groscost, R, ousted; Boulder, Colo., voters ax low-cost
housing.
Scientists have created new, electronic maps showing what
the bottom of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park would look
like without water.
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.
Wyoming veterinarians are blaming the drought for the
summer's unusually high number of cattle with deadly
sulfate-induced polio.
In California, critical habitat is finally designated for
the threatened red-legged frog.
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