Researchers fear that some damage can’t be undone.
Items by Warren Cornwall
Members of the countercultural Rainbow Family say the
Forest Service's new permit requirement threatens their annual
gatherings.
Floatboaters object to Republican Sen. Larry Craig's bill
allowing powerboats unlimited access to Hells Canyon.
The Forest Service is blamed when loggers cut trees within
yards of a nest of rare goshawk fledglings, causing them to
die.
Ranchers win state grazing permits in New Mexico after
eight of nine competing bids by environmentalists are rejected by
the state.
The Colorado State Land Board raises opposition from
ranchers, residents and environmentalists with its plan to sell
part of the Yampa Valley's Emerald Mountain for
development.
Problems plague all the Western sites under consideration
for nuclear waste burial.
The Shoshone-Bannock and environmentalists protest the
train shipment of high-level nuclear wastes bound for the Idaho
National Engineering Laboratory.
A federal court ruling may delay the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service's plan to declare grizzly recovery in Yellowstone
a success.
Environmentalists claim the Snowbasin Ski Resort is using
the Salt Lake City upcoming Olympics as an excuse for a landgrab of
Forest Service acreage.
Developers of the proposed New World gold mine on the edge
of Yellowstone Park are ordered by a federal judge to clean up old
waste from the site before getting necessary permits.
A Forest Service memo suggesting regional foresters work
with the timber industry enrages logging critics.
All-terrain vehicles damage two miles of prime salmon
spawning grounds on the upper Salmon River.
Environmentalists object to the proposed relocation of two
Jackson-area grizzly bears that are killing cattle.
Endangered California condors are being released in
northern Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs.
Frustrated in their desire to legally appeal old-growth
timber sales, Oregon environmentalists take to civil
disobedience.
Utah Rep. James Hansen continues to push a bill
recommending parks for closure by tacking it onto voter
legislation.
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