Washington Republican Sen. Slade Gorton is embarrassed by
the disclosure of memos showing his close ties to industry in his
attempts to weaken environmental laws.
Items by Paul Larmer
Even as the Endangered Species Act is upheld in Western
courts, lawmakers in Congress work to destroy it.
Delta County resident Lettie Hellman is a proponent of
prisons for economic growth and other reasons.
The prisons in Colorado's Fremont County have brought more
benefits than problems, many claim.
The Delta Correctional Facility was given unrestricted use
of 91 acres in the Escalante State Wildlife Area in
Colorado.
Prisons are a major growth industry in the rural
West.
Most new prisons are being built in economically troubled
rural areas.
Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of
prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an
economy.
The Livestock Grazing Act of 1995, introduced by New
Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Dominici, would kill Bruce Babbitt's
grazing reform efforts.
"Cow cops" in Oregon, "White Knight" claims land in
Idaho's Nez Perce National Forest, Forest Service employees worry
about bombs, timber industry has trouble buying salvage sales it
pushed for.
Hopes that a giant spring runoff would help baby Snake
River salmon get past dams to the Pacific are killed by the weather
and the Army Corps of Engineers.
A lawsuit over grazing on Montana's Beaverhead National
Forest is settled in ranchers' favor.
Saving the bull trout will require the cooperation of five
states and 34 national forests.
Hank Fischer of Defenders of Wildlife tries to use
communication and consensus-building to save endangered
species.
Judge David Ezra lifts injunction that threatened to halt
many activities on six Idaho national forests in order to protect
salmon habitat.
Rancher Tom Kelly believes environmentalists may have shot
13 of his cows.
New grazing regulations are released by BLM with little
fanfare.
Senate approves bill requiring the Forest Service to
reissue grazing permits to ranchers.
How Western senators voted on the Murray
amendment.
Senate agrees to suspend environmental laws in order to
expediate salvage logging in national forests.
A reintroduced wolf shot by Idaho rancher Gene Hussey did
not kill the dead calf it was found with, veterinary pathologists
find.
U.S. Army decides not to launch missiles from Green River,
Utah, and shoot them down over New Mexico's White Sands Missile
Range.
U.S. House of Representatives passes a salvage logging
bill that would nearly double the timber harvest on national
forests.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig proposes a bill to give fast-track
approval to timber sales in forests at "high risk" for fire
danger.
Environmentalists are critical of government's latest plan
to save salmon.
Judge rules that six Idaho national forests must cease
mining, logging and grazing until effects on salmon are
studied.
Environmental lawsuit demands the Forest Service do
analyses for 150 grazing allotments on the Beaverhead National
Forest.
Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas unveils plan to
"reinvent" the agency over the next two years.
Northwest Power Planning Council approves plan to draw
down Snake River reservoirs to aid salmon migration.
Environmentalists' nightmares come true in '94
election.
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