The White Mesa Ute Reservation near Blanding, Utah, is
fighting a nearby International Uranium Corporation mill that some
say is really a poorly disguised hazardous waste dump
Items by Rosemary Winters
Mormons are often stereotyped as conservative
anti-environmentalists, but Utah activists Richard Ingebretsen and
Chris Peterson of the Glen Canyon Institute want to convince fellow
believers that it’s OK to be green
Portland, Ore., is bursting at the seams, and urban
planners are starting to covet the Willamette Valley’s
farmland
Farm-raised Atlantic salmon have escaped into Scatter
Creek near Olympia, Wash.fish
Peter Lawson and Anne Wilson buy 1,280 acres of Utah state
school-trust land to save Mary Jane Canyon from
development
In the Light of Reverence: Protecting America's
Sacred Lands, produced and directed by Christopher
McLeod, exposes the obstacles American Indians face when trying to
protect their sacred places
Two former employees say they were fired by Newmont Mining
Corporation for blowing the whistle on pollution and other problems
at the Lone Tree gold mine near Winnemucca, Nev
The Indigenous Communities Mapping Initiative combines
Native American and Western methods to track down and document
ancestral lands
The Bureau of Reclamation’s management plan for the
Klamath River Basin has been sent back to the drawing
board
Pacificorp has agreed to remove the Powerdale Dam on
Oregon’s Hood River in 2010
A nonprofit group, Californians Against Waste, is trying
to double the state’s recycling deposits on beverage
containers, but the industry is fighting attempts to put a bill
through Congress
Three Colorado towns have won water rights for kayaking
courses, making the state one of the few that recognize in-stream
water rights for recreation, and worrying traditional water
users
The Park Service will cut millions of dollars in trail and
building repairs to cover its share of the "war on
terror"
In Idaho, environmentalists sue to prevent the widespread
spraying of pesticides
The Mormon Church, founded by Joseph Smith in the early
19th century, has a distinctive set of doctrines, theology and
church governance
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