Spotted owl may be losing its long fight for survival
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Posted inMay 30, 1994: Can mining come clean?
Can a copper firm restore a blasted ecosystem?
Introductory editor’s note: Wherever we look in the developed West, we see evidence of misuse: eroding streams, stripped forests, species such as the grizzly hanging on by their claws. Many believe it is not enough to simply stop the damage. We must also put the West back together. But many in the West are in […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
A locally based group tries to set the agenda for 130,000 square miles
Posted inMarch 21, 1994: On the borderline
On the borderline
A bleak, flat, grim, hot, gritty and wondrous desert
Posted inMay 16, 1994: Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
Lake Tahoe, Nevada – Fifteen months after taking over at Interior, and a few months after suffering demoralizing defeats in the U.S. Senate and among his environmental supporters, a confident, energetic Bruce Babbitt came to Lake Tahoe to put his stamp on the Bureau of Land Management. The occasion was the first-ever BLM Summit: a […]
Posted inMarch 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
Pay as you waste, says EPA
It’s a new world for rural trash
Posted inMay 2, 1994: A struggle for the last grass
A struggle for the last grass
SILVER CITY, N.M. – Black Canyon is a place that only a hard-core stream addict should be able to love, so barren are its edges, so sparse its grasses. Superficially, the canyon offers a park-like atmosphere in America’s first wilderness. The stream runs freely over its shallow bed, and a few 75- to 100-foot-tall cottonwoods […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
Las Vegas wheels and deals for Colorado River water
Las Vegas is prepared to give up its controversial quest to pipe underground water from rural Nevada, says the area’s top water official. But only if the booming metropolis can get more water from the Colorado River. That’s a big if, requiring changes in how the Colorado River has been run for most of this […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
YUMA, Ariz. – When people talk about 1990s boondoggles, conversation often turns to the superconducting super collider, the Hubble space telescope or the space station. But consider for a moment a water-desalting plant in the middle of a desert. Make it the largest, most expensive reverse-osmosis plant ever built, and keep in mind that it […]
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
Can she save ecosystems?
Mollie Beattie got an uncomfortable preview of the realpolitik that still pervades the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last summer while she waited for Senate confirmation as the agency’s director. One Republican senator after another anonymously exercised the right to place a “hold” on her confirmation. Some, no doubt, were simply curious about this 46-year-old […]
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
Northwest is asked to give up 18 dams
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has said he wants to blow up a dam. Andy Kerr of the Oregon Natural Resources Council aims higher: He wants 18 dams destroyed across Oregon, Idaho and Washington – a drastic measure intended to save salmon runs now teetering on the edge of extinction. “Many people believe dams are engineering […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
Turmoil on the range
Ranchers’ clout drives grazing reform in new directions
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
Cows are evicted from Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A federal judge has kicked cattle out of the canyons of southeastern Utah’s Comb Wash. Both environmentalists and ranchers say the decision could lead to sweeping changes in grazing on public lands. Department of Interior Administrative Law Judge John Rampton’s Dec. 20 decision in the three-year-long Comb Wash case found […]
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Firms milk park’s ‘wildlife’
National Park managers deliberate over whether or not theyshould charge biotechnical firms for extracting microbes fromYellowstone. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Firms milk park’s ‘wildlife’.
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Yellowstone
Introduction to the lead stories on Yellowstone NationalPark. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Yellowstone.
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Grizzly recovery plan could doom bears, critics say
Environmentalists and wildlife biologists criticize a Forest Service plan to manage grizzlies in Yellowstone. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Grizzly recovery plan could doom bears, critics say.
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Park to scientists: Shut up!
Park Service scientists charge that the park suppressed research on grizzlies and elk foraging. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Park to scientists: Shut up!.
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Poacher gets light sentence
A hunter pleads guilty to poaching elk in Yellowstone National Park. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Poacher gets light sentence.
Posted inDecember 13, 1993: Jack Ward Thomas: Hail to the chief
Ranger prods and and pulls her district in a new direction
Kamas District Ranger Melissa Blackwell represents a new direction for the National Forest Service. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Ranger prods and and pulls her district in a new direction.