Items by Steve Hinchman
Recreational user fees would do harm by introducing the
profit motive to natural resource management.
The new group, the Grand Canyon Private Boaters
Association, seeks to unite private river runners as effectively as
the professional boaters.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's grazing reform
compromise opposed by ranchers all over the West; but Babbitt, with
some Congressional and gubernatorial support, may stand
firm.
Review of The Independent Home: Living Well with Power
from the Sun, Wind and Water by Michael Potts.
In Colorado, Tom Chapman trades West Elk Wilderness
inholding for land near Telluride, bilking the Forest Service of
millions of dollars.
Tom Chapman hoped to force Forest Service into swapping
for his West Elks Wilderness land, former Chapman business
associate says.
Indian Water Rights: Negotiating the Future
reviewed.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's new proposal gives
ranchers and environmentalists key roles in grazing
reform.
Both environmentalists and ranchers doubt usefulness of
consensus process.
Bruce Babbitt endorses a consensus grazing reform proposal
developed in Colorado.
Residents of methane-polluted residential areas blame the
problem on natural gas companies.
A group of ranchers calls for Bruce Babbitt's resignation,
charging misconduct and dirty politics.
A group of Colorado ranchers and environmentalists tell
Bruce Babbitt they can solve grazing reform gridlock.
Western senators and ranchers are trying to kill Babbitt's
grazing reform package.
Developer Tom Chapman strikes a deal with the Forest
Service on a controversial land swap.
Two Utah counties, frustrated with the cost of the Central
Utah Project, decide to pull out.
Governors of eight Western states begin work on a strategy
to protect the region's world-class air before it's too
late.
Duncan Energy Inc. builds an illegal road through national
grasslands while the Forest Service and the U.S. Attorney's office
bicker.
Proposed oil and gas leasing on National Forest lands
comes under fire.
A showdown between enviros and water project proponents
nears over the Animas-La Plata water project.
A Colorado wilderness bill abandons the 1964 Wilderness
Act and compromises on water rights.
A review of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, by hemp crusader
Jack Herer.
According to the EPA, bonds from the Summitville
Consolidated Mining Co. don't cover hazardous waste cleanup
costs.
The battle to save the endangered Snake River salmon from extinction heated up this month, as Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus threatened to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies responsible for salmon recovery plans.
Two days after Bill Clinton's election, an unlikely group met in Farmington, N.M., to talk about radically changing how decisions are made in the West. The conspirators were long-time enemies who came together to see if they could cooperate on one of the region's most contentious battles: the operation of Glen Canyon Dam.
In yet another chapter of the Sagebrush Rebellion in southeastern Utah, two rural counties are trying to a force the federal government to allow construction of the Book Cliffs Highway across some of the state's wildest land.
Pulling his horse up short, U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Steve Posey turns to watch a helicopter fly overhead with another load of concrete and building materials dangling from its belly ...
One of the West's largest utilities may be betting that the future lies with coal-fired power plants rather than efficiency and alternative fuels.
The region's electric system was built on vast resources, federal subsidies and freedom from environmental regulations. Now, the industry may be forced to change its strategy -- but not without a fight.
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