Robert Leo Heilman's "Overstory: Zero; Real Life in Timber
Country" portrays life in a logging community.
Items by Sarah Dry
A smaller hog farm in Albin, Wyo., is more or less welcome
in the community, because the owner is local.
Factory hog farms that met resistance in the East and
Midwest are moving West, drawn by lax regulations.
Local activists in Wheatland, Wyo., band together to fight
an industrial hog farm that would produce 100,000 pigs a year - and
a lot of unpleasant products.
Marathon Oil Company is suing to get into lands pulled
from a routine oil and gas lease sale because they are in a
roadless, possible wilderness area.
Hull-Oakes Lumber Company wants to make a museum of a
90-year-old mill near Monroe, Ore., but environmentalists believe
the company's stipulating that it get subsidized timber at the mill
won't wash.
Nevada's attorney general takes away the BLM's right to
hold stock-water rights and says such rights belong solely to
ranchers.
Scientists say the eight-legged frogs showing up in
western Oregon are probably victims of a trematode
parasite.
Biologist Alan Clark believes that the only way to help
the declining population of the endangered Columbia white-tailed
deer is to begin to kill coyotes on the Washington wildlife refuge
the deer live on.
Carl Alleman wants to develop his eight mining claims in
Oregon's Kalmiopsis Wilderness to create a resort he says will
cater to the handicapped.
Reaction is mixed to the Forest Service's decision to not
allow development on Oregon's Mount Hood to expand onto more public
land - but allow 5,000 more skiers, six new chairlifts and a new
restaurant on the slopes.
A citizens' petition accuses the U.S. Army of allowing one
of its bases dry up Arizona's last free-flowing river, the San
Pedro.
A federal judge in Idaho overturns the 1995 conviction of
12 activists charged with violating a road closure in the
Cove-Mallard area.
Conoco wants to drill one or two exploratory oil wells in
Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument before its
leases expire in November.
Sylvia Baca becomes temporary head of the BLM as Mike
Dombeck moves to the Forest Service, and the National Park Service
seeks a replacement for Roger Kennedy.
A deal that swaps two potential dam sites above Utah's
Zion National Park for a new one below will provide water while
protecting the Virgin River.
A two-year U.S. Fish and Wildlife sting nabs 35
individuals and businesses in the Southwest for killing and selling
protected migratory birds.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig drafts a massive bill to change
forest management on all BLM and Forest Service lands - and
environmentalists warn that it's another salvage logging
rider.
Rafting fees to float the Colorado River through the Grand
Canyon are being increased this year.
The group Hawk Watch International reports that some birds
of prey - merlins, ospreys and peregrine falcons - are doing well,
although others, including northern goshawks and golden eagles,
continue to decline.
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