Colorado's Amendment 16 would allow state school trust
lands to be managed for values other than money - and some fear
that would mean harm to Colorado school budgets.
Items by Paul Larmer
In New Mexico, Native American gambling interests fight a
battle against environmentalist candidates.
Colorado's other congressional races are almost over, most
analysts say.
Justice Department lawyers go after Canadian mining
magnate Robert Friedland for the Summitville gold mine cleanup in
Colorado.
Utah's newest national monument will be managed by the BLM
instead of the Park Service, and a lot of the details for that
management remain to be worked out.
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, R., in his own words, condemns the
new monument.
President Bill Clinton uses the Antiquities Act of 1906 to
designate a new 1.7 million-acre national monument in southern
Utah, and reactions range from joy to indignation and
outrage.
The Utah Wildlife Board greatly increases the number of
mountain lions hunters are allowed to kill.
The Crown Butte Mine Co. agrees to give up its mine
project near Yellowstone in exchange for unspecified land
elsewhere.
The Forest Service tries to lift an injunction against
logging on 11 national forests in Arizona and New Mexico, but a
federal judge orders the chainsaws silent again until the question
of the Mexican spotted owl is addressed.
Environmentalists, trappers and ranchers skirmish as a
ballot initiative banning all trapping, snaring and poisoning of
Colorado animals gathers signatures for the November
election.
The Colorado Legislature passes a bill allowing the state
Corrections Department to ignore local zoning when it wants to
build or expand prisons.
Former U.S. Senator Dan Evans, who once supported
Washington state's Growth Management Act, now seeks to change the
law after finding it will prevent him from building a house where
he wants.
Sierra Club members approve a controversial new policy
calling for no logging on public lands.
Montezuma County Commissioner and Colorado rancher Tom
Colbert proves himself an independent and determined
thinker.
County commissioners, forest rangers and other Montezuma
County residents begin to come together to find a way to manage
their public lands.
The federal government files suit against eight mining
companies for polluting Idaho's Coeur d'Alene River basin with
mining waste.
Old growth in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest is saved
when the Forest Service allows the timber company to exchange one
timber sale for another.
A new group called Northwesterners for More Fish is made
up of electric companies, timber companies and aluminum
plants.
Campaign politics and the prospect of summer protests are
pushing President Clinton and Congress toward dismantling or
changing the salvage logging rider.
Tom Huerkamp and Bob Morris plan to sue the State of
Colorado for illegally building a prison in a state wildlife
area.
The cozy relationship between the Forest Service and the
ski industry provokes outrage from environmentalists.
Eagle, Colo., residents wage a 13-year war against
developer Fred Kummer's plans to build a mega-ski resort called
Adam's Rib.
Todd Wilkinson's "Track of the Coyote" praises the
predator's intelligence and adaptability.
Western Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Alan
Simpson of Wyoming announce their retirement from
Congress.
The Bonneville Power Administration was born in the Great
Depression and now sells the power from 29 federal dams.
The Bonneville Power Administration faces environmental
and utility critics as it struggles to survive.
The salvage logging rider faces possible repeal in
Congress.
On Oct. 3, activist Tim Ream began a hunger strike to
protest the "logging without laws" salvage rider.
The anti-environment onslaught of the Republican Congress
begins to falter as a backlash makes its presence felt.
- Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield
- A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
- New bill would permanently protect 130,000 acres of Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
- How the Supreme Court upended a century of federal Indian law
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