Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers and
Citizens and Nature-Friendly
Communties are two new handbooks on innovative land-use
planning and habitat protection
Items by Ray Ring
The tiny New Zealand mud snails that are rapidly invading
the West’s waters may pose a threat to the region’s
trout
It’s time for hunters to rally on behalf of wild
lands and wild animals – beginning with the bison in
Yellowstone
Armed law enforcement officers prevented three
environmentalists, including 83-year-old Stewart Brandborg, from
attending a Forest Service press conference in Hamilton,
Mont.
Reps. Richard Pombo’s and Jim Gibbons’
controversial proposal to sell off public lands was pulled after
both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and citizens rallied
against it
Raymond Plank, chairman of Apache Corp., says responsible
companies like his prove that the energy industry can reduce its
environmental impacts and give more back to local
communities
Energy companies are reaping billions from the West, but
few states outside Wyoming are making sure that wealth stays at
home and is invested wisely.
Air pollution from oil and gas drilling is on the increase
in the Rocky Mountain West, and environmentalists and energy
companies are trying to prevent it from getting any worse
Increasing numbers of the West’s grizzly bears wear
radio collars, and some environmentalists question the necessity of
the practice
Anti-grazing activist Jon Marvel makes a deal with
ranching magnate J.R. Simplot, allowing cattle to continue to graze
on federal land in Idaho
The rising popularity of Viagra has cut into the profits
of Western antler-hunters, including Wyoming Boy Scouts
Western state legislatures boost wildlife and green
energy, even as Washington, D.C., remains hooked on fossil
fuels
Skipped issue; corrections and clarifications to Write-Off
on the Range and other stories; our mailbox runneth over
In Montana’s Madison County, Reid Rosenthal uses
conservation easements to help the land — and make his
investors rich
Conservation easements are often a closed book if you're
not one deal makers. Here are a few tips on how to examine a
conservation easement in your area.
Conservation easements are considered the domain of the
wealthy, but in Colorado, tax credits are helping farmers like
Dorothy and Norman Kehmeier preserve their family’s
land.
A proposal to overhaul the tax rules around conservation
easements has private-land conservationists worried, but recent
financial scandals show the need for some reform
A Biosafety Level 4 lab is being added to the National
Institutes of Health Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus in
Hamilton, Mont.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will begin
sharing management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s
National Bison Range Complex in Montana
The Nez Perce tribe is close to a major water-rights
settlement with Idaho and the federal government, but not everyone
thinks it’s a good idea for the tribe or for endangered
salmon.
The writer says environmentalists cared so much about
wildlife and public lands that they missed a deadly mess in Libby,
Montana
The story of Libby, Montana, where hundreds have died from
mining pollution, raises questions about the environmental movement
itself.
Recent decisions not to list as endangered the
white-tailed and black-tailed prairie dogs and the greater sage
grouse open the door to increased energy exploration and
development in the West
The writer says the environmental movement has stalled: He
proposes a Green March on Washington to wake people up
Rick Johnson of the Idaho Conservation League is working
with Republican Congressman Mike Simpson on a wilderness bill for
the Boulder and White Cloud mountains, but not everybody in "Planet
Idaho" is happy
Stewart Udall talks about his years as Interior secretary,
and criticizes the Bush administration’s environmental
policy
In Western states where judges are elected, an increasing
amount of special-interest group money is being spent on hotly
contested state judge campaigns
Some of Wamsutter’s citizens are briefly profiled: a
Baptist preacher, a couple of real estate entrepreneurs, a
café owner, the deputy sheriff, a bar owner, an oil-field
worker, the town librarian and a local Democrat
Wamsutter, Wyo., is a boomtown these days, but the town is
struggling to be a real community, instead of just a barracks for
the natural gas industry
A recent Supreme Court ruling in a Utah wilderness lawsuit
will limit the ability of citizens to sue the government over how
its agencies manage natural resources
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