Best Essays NW gathers a collection of Oregon Quarterly
essays, most of them written by unknown writers who look at the
Northwest from a unique perspective
Items by Rachel Jackson
Drury Gunn Carr's new documentary follows the Shoshone
Tribe's legal battle to change Wyoming water law and win its water
rights.
Cleaning up asbestos-laden soil around a warehouse owned
by the Minot, N.D., Park District may cost the district a lot, with
the previous owner long gone and the source of the asbestos, W.R.
Grace, now bankrupt.
Utah native Paul Ames gathers and sells native wildflower
seeds to encourage people in arid places to garden with indigenous
plants.
New Mexico presents Phelps Dodge with a plan that could
cost the company $759 billion to close out and clean up its Chino
Mine near Silver City, the state's largest.
The Eagle Creek timber sale in Mount Hood National Forest
near Portland, Ore., is a mecca for protesters, but some say the
sale is environmentally sound, and the protests are much ado about
nothing.
Some citizens of Sunburst, Mont., feel that Texaco has not
done enough to clean up an underground gasoline pool left from a
toxic spill 46 years ago.
The town of Williams, Ore., wants to buy a nearby forest
owned by Boise Cascade to protect local organic farms from
herbicide chemicals used in spraying.
Photographer Adam Jahiel seeks to document the authentic
cowboys of the Great Basin and their disappearing way of
life.
The National Marine Fisheries Service must re-examine how
logging affects endangered salmon before 24 federal timber sales
can proceed in the Pacific Northwest.
A judge rules that three Utah counties misused the 19th
century statute RS 2477 when they illegally graded jeep tracks in
BLM wilderness study areas and Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.
After the Thirty Mile Fire in Washington's Methow Valley
takes the lives of four firefighters, some say the fire should
never have been fought.
Janet Robideau of the Northern Cheyenne tribe founded the
Indian People's Action to advocate for Montana's Indians on issues
such as public education, law enforcement, affordable housing and
health care.
Colorado is no closer to managing its growth problems
after a ballot initiative failed and a dozen legislative bills
crashed into a partisan impasse.
The Utah Farm Bureau Federation is angry at University of
Utah professor Robert Schmidt, whose class recently studied the
biological and economic effects of a hypothetical wolf population
in the state.
Soren Jesperson's five-month, 2,200-mile solo trek around
the Four Corners area will raise money for the Center for
Humanitarian Outreach and Cultural Exchange, a charity his father
directs.
Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Utah, is eager to create a new national
monument to protect dinosaur tracks near St. George, Utah, but to
pay for it he wants to dissolve two-thirds of the existing Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
The Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance is fighting the
commercial helicopter tours over Teton County, Wyo., planned for
this summer, but it faces an uphill battle.
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