Recent old-growth timber sales like Oregon's Roman Dunn
are clear-cut in what critics call an "old-fashioned, dirty"
way.
Items by Paul Larmer
Using an obscure provision in the recent salvage logging
bill, loggers begin cutting healthy old-growth forests in the
Northwest.
The Forest Service again tries to remove domestic sheep
from Hells Canyon National Recreation Area in order to protect
bighorn sheep.
Sportsmen and conservationists criticize Craig Thomas for
not considering public access in his bill to turn over BLM land to
states.
Crown Butte mining company officials hastily file 38
claims on national forest lands adjacent to Yellowstone Park a day
before President Clinton's moratorium on such claims goes into
effect.
Increased tourism on BLM lands forces the agency to
rethink its management plans.
New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici agrees to revise
his Livestock Grazing Act after sportsmen, environmentalists and
the media raise an outcry against it.
The BLM begins fighting back in a last-ditch effort to
save grazing reform - and the agency itself - from legislation that
would halt reform and turn over public lands to the
state.
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.
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.
- Wyoming’s ‘Bird Lady’ offers a haven for injured birds
- Patriot militia groups mobilize during a deadly pandemic and massive protests
- Colorado State University acknowledges its establishment at ‘dire cost to Native Nations’
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
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