Items by Paul Larmer

Endangered law backed in court, ripped in Congress
Even as the Endangered Species Act is upheld in Western courts, lawmakers in Congress work to destroy it.
Paul Larmer July 24, 1995 From the print edition
Lettie Hellman
Delta County resident Lettie Hellman is a proponent of prisons for economic growth and other reasons.
Paul Larmer June 26, 1995 From the print edition
A small mountain town shows prisons can be good neighbors
The prisons in Colorado's Fremont County have brought more benefits than problems, many claim.
Paul Larmer June 26, 1995 From the print edition
How Colorado's hunters lost 90 acres to 300 prisoners
The Delta Correctional Facility was given unrestricted use of 91 acres in the Escalante State Wildlife Area in Colorado.
Paul Larmer June 26, 1995 From the print edition
Crime is big business, on both sides of thelaw
Prisons are a major growth industry in the rural West.
Paul Larmer June 26, 1995 From the print edition
Poor, rural places are magnets for prisons
Most new prisons are being built in economically troubled rural areas.
Paul Larmer June 26, 1995 From the print edition
Colorado's prison slayer
Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an economy.
Paul Larmer June 26, 1995 From the print edition
Grazing reform 'reformed'
The Livestock Grazing Act of 1995, introduced by New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Dominici, would kill Bruce Babbitt's grazing reform efforts.
Paul Larmer June 12, 1995 From the print edition
Heard around the West
"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.
Paul Larmer And The Staff June 12, 1995 From the print edition
Man, weather conspire against salmon
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.
Paul Larmer June 12, 1995 From the print edition
Grazing settlement favors ranchers
A lawsuit over grazing on Montana's Beaverhead National Forest is settled in ranchers' favor.
Paul Larmer May 29, 1995 From the print edition
Five states squirm as bull trout declines
Saving the bull trout will require the cooperation of five states and 34 national forests.
Paul Larmer May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Soft-path approach to saving species
Hank Fischer of Defenders of Wildlife tries to use communication and consensus-building to save endangered species.
Paul Larmer May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Idaho injunction lifted
Judge David Ezra lifts injunction that threatened to halt many activities on six Idaho national forests in order to protect salmon habitat.
Paul Larmer May 1, 1995 From the print edition
Who killed the cows?
Rancher Tom Kelly believes environmentalists may have shot 13 of his cows.
Paul Larmer May 1, 1995 From the print edition
Back to grazing reform ... maybe
New grazing regulations are released by BLM with little fanfare.
Paul Larmer April 17, 1995 From the print edition
Congress helps ranchers, too
Senate approves bill requiring the Forest Service to reissue grazing permits to ranchers.
Paul Larmer April 17, 1995 From the print edition
How Western senators voted on the Murray amendment
How Western senators voted on the Murray amendment.
Paul Larmer April 17, 1995 From the print edition
Salvage logging squeaks by Senate
Senate agrees to suspend environmental laws in order to expediate salvage logging in national forests.
Paul Larmer April 17, 1995 From the print edition
The wolf wasn't guilty
A reintroduced wolf shot by Idaho rancher Gene Hussey did not kill the dead calf it was found with, veterinary pathologists find.
Paul Larmer April 3, 1995 From the print edition
Utah escapes missiles
U.S. Army decides not to launch missiles from Green River, Utah, and shoot them down over New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range.
Paul Larmer April 3, 1995 From the print edition
Congress pushes unfettered salvage logging
U.S. House of Representatives passes a salvage logging bill that would nearly double the timber harvest on national forests.
Paul Larmer April 3, 1995 From the print edition
Bill would fight fire with chain saws
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig proposes a bill to give fast-track approval to timber sales in forests at "high risk" for fire danger.
Paul Larmer March 6, 1995 From the print edition
Salmon plan attacked
Environmentalists are critical of government's latest plan to save salmon.
Paul Larmer Feb. 20, 1995 From the print edition
Idaho salmon suit angers locals
Judge rules that six Idaho national forests must cease mining, logging and grazing until effects on salmon are studied.
Paul Larmer Feb. 6, 1995 From the print edition
Forest Service may finally evaluate grazing
Environmental lawsuit demands the Forest Service do analyses for 150 grazing allotments on the Beaverhead National Forest.
Paul Larmer Jan. 23, 1995 From the print edition
Coming soon: A leaner, more ecological agency
Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas unveils plan to "reinvent" the agency over the next two years.
Paul Larmer Dec. 26, 1994 From the print edition
Northwest council says salmon should float
Northwest Power Planning Council approves plan to draw down Snake River reservoirs to aid salmon migration.
Paul Larmer Dec. 26, 1994 From the print edition
Election '94 postmortem
Environmentalists' nightmares come true in '94 election.
Paul Larmer Nov. 28, 1994 From the print edition
Environmentalists mostly skunked by Congress
Environmentalists fare poorly in the 103rd Congress.
Paul Larmer Oct. 31, 1994 From the print edition
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