Idaho environmentalist Gary Richardson fights a difficult
battle from his seat on the county highway board, where he seeks to
contain Boise's growth and work for alternative
transportation.
Items by Stephen Stuebner
Boise Cascade Corp. sawmill workers blame
environmentalists for sawmill closures in the Northwest that others
say are the fault of the global economy.
The military seeks expansion of its ranges and airspace in
the West through more than a dozen proposals.
A ranching family's desire to develop a road to an
inholding in Arizona's Arrastra Mounain Wilderness is a microcosm
of the huge and unwieldy problem of inholdings on public lands
throughout the West.
What was supposed to be a pioneering clean-up by a private
company of radioactive waste at the Idaho National Engineering
Laboratory bogs down amid cost overruns and failed
deadlines.
Variable voting patterns on the West make it difficult to
predict who will win on election day.
A coalition of canyon lovers defeats the U.S. Air Force in
Idaho's Owyhee Canyon.
EPA agrees to let Idaho environmental authorities clean up
tailings in Triumph.
Native Americans as well as gun buffs and foreign groups
are responsible for killing and selling bald eagles.
State biologists and bureaus are finding new ways to
protect young eagles.
Bald eagles are making a comeback after near extinction
due to the pesticide DDT.
A summary of pending lawsuits between the government,
salmon advocates and hydropower interests.
Idaho's Lower Snake River dams block salmon
recovery.
The issue of whether or not barging salmon around dams is
effective is taken to court.
Michael Frome is axed from the Defenders of Wildlife
publication.
Last month the House of Representatives passed a 1.48 million-acre wilderness bill for Montana that brought cheers from cheers from some conservation groups and objections from others.
Beavers on a ranch in Idaho have turned a previously gouged creek bottom into a wetland brimming with wildlife and produced a new pasture for the ranch's livestock.
When the state Water Resources Board proposed a ban on hydroelectric development for streams in the Henry's Fork Basin, few expected it would face rough sledding in the 1992 Idaho Legislature.
The Bliss Rapids snail, along with about 30 other species in the Snake River, appear to be declining due to pollution and development.
The Pacific Northwest's dawning power shortage is adding new impetus to build more hydroelectric dams in Idaho, while the state bills itself as 'the whitewater capital of the world.'
Along Idaho's Snake River, military war-games run up against the densest known concentration of nesting raptors in the world.
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