Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson’s Life with Birds of
Prey by Stephen Stuebner tells the story of one of the most
underrated and interesting conservationists in the West
Items by Sarah Wright
A young woman realizes she doesn’t belong in a
national environmental organization when one of its well-dressed
leaders tells her to forget about the simple life, because how a
person lives doesn’t really matter.
A study by Numbers USA, "Weighing Sprawl Factors in Large
U.S. Cities," analyzes relative contributions of land-use decisions
and population growth to sprawl in the nation's 100 largest
urbanized areas.
The fourth year of a crippling drought throughout the West
is potential for trouble, not only for farmers, but wildlife and
the human population, as well.
A family-owned business, Cordova and Sons, in Cuba City,
N.M., collects and recycles used tires for landscaping and building
projects.
A land-exchange referendum on the November ballot might
shift the borders of the Sonoran Desert and Ironwoods national
monuments, designated by President Clinton before he left office,
in an effort to resolve power companies' rights-of-way.
The city of Portland, Ore., drafts a proposal to aid
endangered fish through building and landscape regulations to
prevent eroding stream banks on 19,000 acres of residential
property.
"Solving Sprawl," a new book by the Natural Resources
Defense Council, offers guidance on how to counter poorly planned
patterns of growth.
Environmentalists are fighting to stop energy development
in Montana's Upper Missouri River Breaks National
Monument.
The Environmental Working Group has put together a Web
site that lists the amounts of federal subsidies farmers have
received since the 1996 Farm Bill was passed.
Snowmobilers and wilderness advocates come to an agreement
on motorized access in Montana's Flathead National
Forest.
The Montana Shooting Sports Association is fighting a BLM
ban on prairie dog hunting intended to save habitat for the
endangered blackfooted ferret.
The Colorado Legislature is mulling over a bill that would
allow farmers and cities to retain rights to any water they leave
instream for fish and boaters.
Archaeologists are appalled at Anasazi Digs, a
family-owned business near Monticello, Utah, that plans to sell the
right to dig and keep artifacts from prehistoric ruins on private
land.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Wyoming Wilderness Society
are paying an Idaho sheep rancher to move to a different grazing
allotment, so that grizzly bears can safely live on the original
allotment.
The Colorado Wildlife Commission wants to prevent the
spread of chronic wasting disease by requiring all elk imports to
be certified as disease-free for 60 months.
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