Shea Andersen says the now-shuttered Albuquerque Tribune,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning paper, will be missed.
Items by Shea Andersen
The writer and friends interrupt their campout to run for
their lives from a fast-moving forest fire
Activists fear a proposed nickel mine on Rough and Ready
Creek in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest could harm a unique
ecosystem.
Conservationists are unhappy about development company
Jeld Wen Inc.'s proposal to build an "ecologically sensitive" ski
resort at Pelican Butte in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
For the first time ever, it costs to hike in Idaho's
Sawtooth National Recreation Area, but many users are forgetting or
refusing to pay the $2 a day fee.
Sawtooth National Forest Supervisor Bill LeVere, under
pressure from Idaho's congressional delegation, withdraws his
controversial grazing rules.
Idaho's Sawtooth National Forest Supervisor Bill LeVere
faces fierce criticism from Rep. Helen Chenoweth and ranchers for
his crackdown on overgrazing, but so far refuses to back
down.
The Forest Service wins a lawsuit over an illegal addition
to an A-frame house on private property in Idaho's Sawtooth
National Recreation Area.
Southern Oregon environmentalists say the Forest Service
is "killing the patient" by logging fungus-infected Port Orford
cedars.
Lake County, Ore., wants to buy the 1 million acres of
Forest Service land within its boundaries.
A bill introduced in Congress would give the Park Service
more power to regulate overflights.
Montana Rep. Pat Williams wins a temporary moratorium on
logging, mining and oil and gas leasing on 1.7 million acres of
roadless area in Montana.
The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to list the
coho as a threatened species in Oregon and California.
Montana Republican Sen. Conrad Burns wants to cut
wolf-reintroduction budgets and use the money for whirling disease
research.
Forest Service employees in the West suffer bombs and
beatings in several incidents.
Federal Judge Carl Muecke orders 11 national forests in
Arizona and New Mexico to halt all logging until their forest plans
adequately protect the Mexican spotted owl.
Notorious pothunter Earl Shumway is convicted of looting
Anasazi burial sites in Utah.
Union organizer Kenny Harrell wants better pay for federal
wildland fire crews.
The timber industry shows no interest in buying cheap,
burned timber in salvage sales.
Shea Andersen describes the life of an HCN
intern.
The Colorado Supreme Court denies Aspen Ski Co. water to
expand its Snowmass resort.
The debate over brucellosis continues as state
veterinarians and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
want to inspect Yellowstone bison and kill any that are carrying
the disease.
Two books on firefighting - Michael Thoele's "Fire Line:
The Summer Battles of the West" and Starr Jenkins' "Smokejumpers,
"49, Brothers In the Sky" - are reviewed.
Veterinary technician Carolyn Kinsey, fired for protesting
the ill-fated release of black-footed ferrets in South Dakota,
wants to start a care facility at Pueblo, Colo., for geriatric and
neglected ferrets.
The third summer of the Cove/Mallard Coalition's protests
against logging in central Idaho begins with arrests and
lawsuits.
The EPA indicts Louisiana-Pacific for its Olathe, Colo.,
waferboard plant's pollution.
Tom Chisholm, former environmental manager of the bankrupt
Summitville Mine is indicted by the EPA for his part in Colorado's
worst environmental disaster.
Eight wolf pups and their mother are moved to a holding
pen in Yellowstone after the pups' father was killed near Red
Lodge, Montana.
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