The BLM orders a two-year moratorium on a cyanide
heap-leach gold mine planned by Glamis Imperial Corp. for land in
California near Yuma, Ariz., that the Quechan Indians say is
sacred.
Items by Taffeta Elliott
Picuris Pueblo potters fear that expansion of a privately
owned mica mine near Penasco, N.M., will use up the last-known
micaceous clay, which they use in their traditional
pottery.
The book, "Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway
Communities," by Jim Howe, Ed McMahon and Luther Propst is
reviewed.
The BLM is in the middle of a mess it created when it sold
oil and gas rights in New Mexico's Bisti/De-Na-Zin wilderness
before it became a wilderness.
The U.S. Air Force plans to offer Idaho rancher Bert
Brackett around $1 million to turn his grazing allotment into a
bombing range.
The National Park Service will ban personal watercraft on
almost all of its waterways.
USFS halts climbing-anchor ban; Idaho fights return of
part of Lake Coeur d'Alene to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe; publisher
Gibbs Smith quits SUWA board; Yosemite Nat'l Park plans new bus
system; golf course planned in Inyo Nat'l Forest (CA) faces
lawsuit.
The Wilderness Society issues a report, "The New
Challenge: People, Commerce and the Environment in the Yellowstone
to Yukon Region."
The group Partners in Flight tries to stem the decline in
the migrating bird populations of North and South
America.
In Montana, the Church Universal and Triumphant decides to
sell 3,000 acres of the Paradise Valley.
The Alberton Community Coalition for Environmental Health
wants to educate people about the hazardous waste carried by
railroads.
In northern New Mexico, residents battle Air Force plans
for a new bombing range.
The new 400-page, four-pound "Draft EIS for Interagency
Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone
National Park" considers seven alternatives in the management of
wandering bison in the Yellowstone area.
NUCHIK Inc. wants to build one of the largest
chicken-processing plants in the West in the town of Artesia, N.M.,
but some fear the ensuing population growth would be more than the
small town could handle.
Three "forest fragmentation" videotapes discuss the
serious threats to forest health caused by humans cutting Colorado
and Wyoming forests into smaller isolated stands.
A summary of public comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service's plan to restore grizzlies in Idaho and Montana's
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness shows 77 percent in favor, but some
environmentalists say there are still problems with the
plan.
A report by the U.S. Geological Survey, "Tapping the
Earth's Natural Heat," discusses geothermal power and its possible
impacts on the environment.
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