Tim Faber, a carpenter, ranch hand and ‘redneck
liberal,’ devotes himself to preserving the wild landscapes
of Montana’s Missouri River Breaks
Items by Ron Selden
Montana rancher Karl Rappold is determined to save his
beloved Rocky Mountain Front from development by the oil and gas
industry
Activists are fighting a copper and silver mine planned
for underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in
Montana.
Montana greens are worried that recent legislative changes
to the state's 1971 Montana Environmental Policy Act will make the
law almost impossible to enforce.
Friends and admirers mourn the sudden, mysterious death by
drowning of lesbian activist and environmentalist Tary Mocabee of
Montana's Mission Valley.
Gayla Benefield of Libby, Mont., is among many fighting to
keep the Montana Environmental Policy Act intact in the face of
Republican attempts to weaken the far-reaching and powerful
law.
Many Glacier and other historic hotels in Glacier National
Park need major restoration, but some fear proposed legislation
undermines concessionaire reforms only recently approved by
Congress.
Jack and Stephanie McFarland sue when Glacier National
Park officials deny them a special permit to snowmobile into their
park inholding.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is pushing for a new and
expanded National Conservation Area along the banks of the Missouri
River Breaks, a wild and scenic river corridor.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes refuse to let
the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. run a petroleum pipeline across the
Flathead Reservation in Montana.
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