NOAA Fisheries is drafting new regulations that will allow
hatchery-raised fish to be counted along with wild salmon and
steelhead, a move that property-rights lawyers hope will take the
species off the endangered list
Items by Ray Ring
Environmentalist lawyers Johanna Wald, Joe Feller, Laird
Lucas, Letty Belin, Mike Axline, Jay Tutchton, Roger Flynn and Tom
France are briefly profiled
The West’s environmentalist lawyers are manning the
legal barricades, as the Bush administration stealthily attacks the
nation’s bedrock environmental laws
The writer outlines the ideological underpinnings of
judicial flip flips on key Western issues
Judge Don Molloy finds the Forest Service partly liable in
the 1996 Montana snowmobile wreck that injured Brian Musselman, and
some snowmobilers are worried about the ruling’s impacts on
their sport
Western ranchers rejoice when a federal court jury finds
that the nation’s largest meatpacker, Tyson/IBP, has
illegally squeezed $1.28 billion from independent cattle
producers
As the West grows and develops, more people find
themselves drawn into the conflict over open-range laws
A right-wing coup is under way in the nation’s
courts, which George W. Bush is stacking with anti-environmental
judges, and the impacts on Western conservation issues are not
going to be pretty
The environmental records of federal judges are briefly
examined, including Dee Benson, Don Molloy, Alan Angus McDonald, B.
Lynn Winmill, Michael Hogan, Edward Lodge, Clarence Brimmer, James
Parker and Sam Haddon
The National Wildlife Federation negotiates two important
land deals with ranchers in the Yellowstone area, ending grazing on
Horse Butte and protecting local bison
Ray Ring says California and wildfire are like co-stars in
a bad Hollywood movie
Critics say it’s not a coincidence that the Bush
administration announces bad environmental news – like the
recent rollback of mine-tailings limits – late on Friday
afternoons, when media coverage is sparse
Karen Dorn Steele of the Spokane Spokesman-Review showed
how a reporter at a regional paper can have a national impact, when
she uncovered the extent of radioactive contamination at Hanford
Nuclear Reservation
The Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources
presented the first Wallace Stegner Awards in September to nine
Western newspapers for excellence
A.L. "Butch" Alford of the Lewiston, Idaho, Morning
Tribune is a good example of a publisher who truly believes in
independent journalism
The West’s big newspapers fall short when it comes
to covering today’s most important issues: the "big story"
about the environment, and the impacts on the region of growth and
development
It’s high time for the environmental movement to
join with farmworker activists in their fight for fair treatment
and protection from dangerous pesticides
In Kalispell, Mont., veteran journalist Ben Long now works
to bring local conservationists together to reframe the
environmental debate in the Flathead Valley
Radio shock jock John Stokes wants to scare
environmentalists away from Montana’s Flathead County, but
his bullying tactics have led instead to increased unity among his
opponents and quiet conservation progress
Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the
Fate of the Federal Lands by Richard W. Behan is a
provocative travel guide to the corporate take-over of the public
lands under the Bush administration
Three federal judges, ruling in three environmentalist
lawsuits, tell the Department of Energy that it has to be more
careful with nuclear waste
Americans need to acknowledge all the costs of oil and gas
drilling before we blithely flip the light switch or start the
car
Responding to pressure from the oil and gas industry, the
Bush administration further relaxes BLM wildlife
regulations
The Red Desert and Jack Morrow Hills of Wyoming are at the
center of industry’s ambitious plans to extract natural gas
and coalbed methane
The nation’s increasing demand for natural gas is
going to hit hardest in the Rocky Mountain West
The group Forest Service Employees for Environmental
Ethics is calling for Forest Service firefighters to be more
careful with fire retardants, which are causing fish kills in
Western streams
Montana’s Clark Fork River Coalition is celebrating
the EPA’s call for the removal of Milltown Dam and its toxic
reservoir, a decision even conservative Gov. Judy Martz says
God’s will
Even as wildfires blaze in Arizona and New Mexico, and
President Bush’s forest-thinning plan moves through Congress,
Western governors counsel moderation in logging and suggest more
research and collaboration
Greg and Mary Tilford, who lost their house in
Montana’s Bitterroot fires in 2000, are part of a group of
homeowners suing the Forest Service for compensation
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