The Western Growers Association says its farmers need
another 20,000 workers to harvest this winter’s crop, and
President Bush endorses the idea of a guest-worker program to make
it easier for migrant workers in the U.S.
Items by Tim Westby
A writer takes a 1,600-mile Greyhound bus ride from Salt
Lake City into Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, and listens
to the stories of the Westerners he meets
Utah’s attempt to take over backcountry roads begins
to unravel, largely because of problems stirred up by the attempt
to claim the remote Weiss Highway in Juab County as an R.S. 2477
road
Jason Groenewold didn’t set out to be an
environmental activist, but now he directs the Healthy Environment
Alliance of Utah, which is fighting toxic waste disposal in the
West Desert
The writer delights in the exotic flamingo that has made
the Great Salt Lake its home — yet he says one is
enough
With a natural gas shortage looming, and the encouragement
of the Bush White House, energy companies are looking to coal
again, and coal-fired power plants are being planned in Sigurd,
Utah, and across the West
In the face of noisy opposition, Envirocare of Utah pulls
its federal application to dump high-level radioactive waste in the
desert
Utah has dropped its threatened lawsuit over the control
of backcountry roads, but the agreement the state made with the
federal government casts a cloud over future wilderness
protection
Emery County Commissioner Randy Johnson thought he could
come up with a local alternative for protecting Utah’s San
Rafael Swell, but angry ORVers attacked his proposed
monument.
In Utah, an initiative that would triple the cost of
disposal at Envirocare's radioactive waste dump in Tooele County
and it from taking hotter wastes is being fiercely fought by the
company.
A federal judge has struck down a series of Utah laws
meant to block a planned high-level nuclear waste storage facility
on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation.
Utah Rep. Jim Hansen has introduced a bill that would
allow ATV riders access to 300 miles of existing roads and allow
the creation of more access trails for ATVs in Utah.
Environmentalists and SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson denounce
the Legacy Highway, a disputed 14-mile road that would connect Salt
Lake City to Farmington, arguing that it would destroy wetlands,
encourage sprawl, and degrade the Front's already murky
air.
The brine-shrimp industry of Great Salt Lake has helped
put that misunderstood ecosystem under a microscope; can the lake
be saved from its history of abuse and a rapidly increasing
population around it?
Utah environmentalists fear a secret deal between the BLM
and the governor's office will give counties control over dirt
roads and trails and prevent the designation of future
wilderness.
A proposed high-level nuclear waste storage area on the
Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in western Utah is coming under
attack from some tribal critics as well as other
opponents.
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson delights anti-sprawl
activists and angers Legacy Parkway supporters by personally
joining a lawsuit to kill the controversial highway.
The Glen Canyon Action Network toured part of the West to
promote basic conservation measures for the Colorado River, along
with a proposal to send 1 percent of the river's water downstream
to restore the delta.
Protesters in Salt Lake City charge that the federal
government has yet to fully compensate people in Utah, Nevada and
Idaho whose health was harmed by the nuclear-bomb testing that
started 50 years ago.
A coalition of environmentalists and smart-growth
advocates, including Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, has filed
lawsuits to stop construction of the Legacy Parkway along Utah's
Wasatch Front near the Great Salt Lake.
A coalition of environmentalists has raised the money to
protect a historic ranch in Utah's Wasatch Mountains from the
sprawling development of nearby Park City.
A group of unrelated Utah activists who first came
together as the "Bastille Family" during anti-war protests in 1969
celebrates its 30th anniversary with a family reunion in Salt Lake
City.
In Utah, a huge swap of state and federal lands in the
western part of the state falls through when environmentalists and
anti-wilderness locals object.
Arizona Gov. Jane Hull's Growing Smarter Commission would
preserve as open space some of the state's trust lands, but critics
say those acres are undevelopable anyway, and that the plan caters
to rural lawmakers.
The Park Service says that a new Las Vegas airport,
planned for a site 10 miles from California's Mojave National
Preserve, will ruin the "solace and quiet" of the desert.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt would like to see a
national monument for the Arizona Strip, a little-known region of
the Shivwits Plateau northwest of the Grand Canyon.
A boom in coalbed methane gas development in Wyoming's
Powder River Basin could have the strange side effect of bringing
more water to the surface than the ecosystem can cope
with.
Canyon Forest Village, a development near the south
entrance of the Grand Canyon, has been approved, but some
environmentalists plan to appeal the project.
A new report, "Incentives for Conserving Open Lands in
Greater Yellowstone," offers suggestions for farmers and ranchers
to make land pay without selling out to developers.
Federal Judge William Dwyer has blocked nine major timber
sales, saying that the Forest Service and the BLM have failed to
protect rare animal and plant species in old-growth forest, as
required under the Northwest Forest Plan.
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