The Interior secretary is the nation's top wildlife manager and federal landlord, managing 507 million acres, 600 dams and 68 percent of the nation's energy reserves.
Rocky Barker remembers the Yellowstone fires of 1988, and warns that in today’s hotter, drier West, gigantic, uncontrollable blazes are going to become an everyday occurrence.
Rocky Barker says four Northwestern tribes stopped
fighting the federal government over dam-breaching on the Snake
River largely because they could read the political writing on the
walls.
Newly appointed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has a
chance to use his deal-making abilities to bring change to the way
Western public lands are managed
After Michele DeHart of the Fish Passage Center in
Portland, Ore., publicly supported a plan to protect salmon, angry
lawmakers led by Sen. Larry Craig yanked the center’s
funding
Sen. Larry Craig’s suggestion that New
Orleans’ 9th Ward be restored as a wetland may represent a
newfound respect for the power of nature and the limits of the
human ability to control it
A longtime consultant to the hydropower industry,
biologist Don Chapman, shook the Northwest this summer when he
declared that four dams on the Lower Snake River should be breached
to save the salmon
As Boise celebrates the opening of its Anne Frank Human
Rights Memorial, the late Bill Wassmuth is remembered as the
activist who helped lead the charge against Idaho's neo-Nazi
extremists.
Under pressure from ranchers, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and
other conservatives, Rod Sando resigns from his position as
director of Idaho's Department of Fish and Game.
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