Peter Chilson ponders the parallel fates of two lovely and
ravaged lands: The Southwest desert in America and the West Coast
of Africa.
Items by Peter Chilson
Rifle, Colo., rancher Jim Snyder has seen statistics
become visible on his own land as the area grows and the economy
changes.
Rifle, Colo., offers an example of how Western communities
formerly dependent on extractive industries must find a way to
adapt to changing socio-economics as the old industries
decline.
Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo loses to Larry Delgado;
Wilma Mankiller honored; Babbitt under investigation; Sierra Club
voting on immigration; lawsuit over Arizona flash flood; People for
the West now for the USA.
None of the current bills in Congress to rewrite the
Endangered Species Act are pleasing to all environmentalists,
developers or the politicians debating them.
Canada lynx listed; Wayne Taylor Jr. ew Hopi chairman;
John Mumma stays with Colo. Div. of Wildlife; Yellowstone's top law
officer, Dan Sholly, transferred; judge rejects landfill next to
Joshua Tree Nat. Park, Calif.; cows barred from Utah's Comb
Wash.
A long, hot hike into - and back out of - the Grand Canyon
takes the writer into the heart of a park that is beautiful, much
visited, and still very dangerous.
The Mohave Generating Plant in southern Nevada is blamed
for much of the air pollution that shrouds Grand Canyon, but the
plant's owners say cleaning it up will force the plant to close and
lay off Navajo workers.
Developers, residents and conservationists battle over the
rapid growth outside the park.
Western senators flunk conservation report card; Joshua
Tree landfill rejected; Yucca Mtn. ot ready for waste; Hart Mtn.,
Ore., coyotes safe from guns, but Yellowstone bison are not; BLM
looking at Utah's Lockhart Basin.
Taylor Ranch troubles continue; Tortolita, Ariz., under
attack; Clinton administration's "no surprise' policy on endangered
species suspended; non-residential property owners may vote near
Telluride, Colo.; Utah's legal marriage age may rise to
16.
Western conservatives in U.S. Senate, trying to destroy
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because of its "liberalism,'
compromise on creating a commission to study the appeals court
system.
Forest Service admits losing money on timber; Utah plans
to block nuclear waste shipment; Clinton nixes mineral rights
transfer to Montana; Maine's Edwards Dam to be removed for salmon;
Ted Turner sees bucks in bison.
Quincy Library Group bill; Navajos reject gambling; no
money from Clinton for Mt. Graham telescope; Rep. Peter DeFazio
seeks mining royalties instead of user fees; truce on logging in
Rio Arriba County, N.M.; Romer approves "A-LP Lite.'
Babbitt on gambling; Charles Wilkinson's pro-logging;
Headwaters protesters; Portland's bikes stolen; Animas La-Plata
update; winter in Yellowstone; China Left timber sale; oil/gas
industry appeal Mont. ban; Dinosaur Nat'l Mon.; BLM's Mike
Austin.
A proposed bombing range for the German Air Force in New
Mexico raises the ire of local ranchers and
environmentalists.
National Park Service staffer Barbara Sutteer, in her own
words, discusses Indian feelings about user fees on public
lands.
Colorado hunter Guy Clark, in his own words, discusses his
opposition to user fees on the West's public lands.
Some say increased user fees at Washington's Mount St.
Helens National Monument could lead to increased accidents as
climbers hurry to save on fees.
The federal government's new Recreational Fee
Demonstration Program - which requires recreationists to "pay to
play" in national parks, forests, BLM and Fish and Wildlife areas
nationwide - receives both condemnation and kudos in its early
trials.
The Oregon Supreme Court upholds the state's right to
enforce strict rules against the non-agricultural development of
high-value farmland.
Severe thunderstorms have caused flash floods in Arizona,
killing people near Douglas and in Antelope Canyon, derailing a
train and leading to the evacuation of residents and tourists from
a Havasupai Indian village just outside Grand Canyon.
Peter Chilson editorializes on the Idaho Statesman's
editorials.
In Oregon, five protesters win in court over trespassing
charges stemming from the Warner Creek fire sale in Willamette
National Forest.
The BLM's desire to use DuPont's pesticide Oust to kill a
weed called cheatgrass provokes controversy.
The Colorado Wildlife Commission restricts "contest
shoots" of small game, including prairie dogs and
coyotes.
In separate attacks by mountain lions, a boy in Colorado's
Mesa Verde National Park is wounded, and another boy, in Rocky
Mountain National Park, is killed.
In Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest, environmentalists
protest the China Left timber sale, saying logging will harm
endangered coho salmon.
The firing of New Mexico State University President J.
Michael Orenduff may have been at the behest of ranching
interests.
Hull-Oakes Lumber Company wants to make a museum of a
90-year-old mill near Monroe, Ore., but environmentalists believe
the company's stipulating that it get subsidized timber at the mill
won't wash.
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