A second judge will likely demand some limits on winter traffic
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Posted inNovember 8, 2004: Keepers of the Flame
The Sierra gets ‘a pocket’ for conservation funding
An idea born on the coast moves inland— but can it work in other states?
Posted inNovember 8, 2004: Keepers of the Flame
River turns against a salmon tribe
Clear-cutting and riverbank armoring have helped erode a reservation
Posted inNovember 8, 2004: Keepers of the Flame
A new breed of ‘ski bums’ is anything but
Young people have to get creative if they’re going to survive in mountain towns
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
Follow-up
New rules that require retailers to label where fish come from have gone into effect — sort of. The new rules, which were mandated under the 2002 Farm Bill, require fish and shellfish to be labeled as “farm-raised” or “wild-caught,” as well as identified by their country of origin (HCN, 3/17/03). The only catch is […]
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
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Environmental groups are worried that a proposition on California’s ballot may limit their ability to sue corporations that violate state or federal environmental laws. Proposition 64 would repeal a section of the state’s Unfair Competition Law that allows state or local attorneys or members of the public to sue a business for “unlawful, unfair and […]
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
‘Green elephants’ abandon Bush
Republican conservationists pine for the
days of Roosevelt and Goldwater
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
Calendar
Visit Boise, Idaho, for the U.S. Forest Service?s conference on fire and forest health. Entitled “The Next 100 Years,” the conference, from Nov. 18-19, will feature Stephen Pyne, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, former Idaho governor Cecil D. Andrus, D, and Forest Chief Dale Bosworth.Andrus Center for Public Policy: www.andruscenter.org 208-426-4218 The American Geophysical Union?s meeting […]
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
Election-year environmentalism
The Bush administration throws enviros and hunters some bones
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
Dems stumble in Arizona race
One of the environment’s dirty dozen leads in congressional ‘fair fight’
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
Californians take a stand on GE crops
Farmers fear a ballot initiative may takedown a tried-and-true rice variety
Posted inOctober 25, 2004: Window Shopping: Part-Time Paradise
BLM’s crown jewels go begging
National Landscape Conservation System remains underfunded even as visitors increase
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Calendar
Visit Albuquerque for RangeNet?s conference, Envisioning Wild Landscapes: Momentum for Change, on Nov. 11-13. The conference will include discussions concerning grazing issues on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands; keynote speakers are U.S. Reps. Ra?l Grijalva, D-N.M., and Christopher Shays, R-Conn., who recently introduced the Voluntary Grazing Buyout Act in Congress. Billy Stern […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Follow-up
Former workers at a nuclear bomb factory may soon get a cold shoulder from the U.S. Department of Energy. In 1993, Congress created the Former Worker Medical Screening Program to notify and test nuke workers who might be at risk for health problems (HCN, 11/24/03: Cold war workers seek compensation). But the screening program for […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Wolves are welcome in one Western state
Oregon may soon be the first Western state to independently welcome back wolves following their near eradication and reintroduction in the Lower 48. In September, a citizen panel of ranchers, hunters, wildlife activists and others presented the state Fish and Wildlife Commission with a blueprint that would allow eight or more wolf packs to move […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Citizens wary of their nuclear neighbor
Rather than excavating a Cold War-era landfill just outside Albuquerque, Sandia National Laboratories wants to leave the nuclear waste in the ground and “monitor” it indefinitely — and the state of New Mexico has agreed that’s a good idea. From 1959 until 1988, Sandia used the site, now known as the Mixed Waste Landfill, to […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Wolf pack wiped out for ‘surplus killing’
During the night of June 29, the nine wolves in the Cook pack took part in what biologists call a “surplus killing” north of McCall. They killed 70 sheep, far more than they could eat. In all, the pack — Idaho’s largest — reportedly killed more than 190 sheep the past two summers. The U.S. […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Trout wriggles into a sagebrush rebellion
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raised the stakes in a conflict between environmentalists and Elko County, Nev., in June, when it proposed critical habitat for the endangered bull trout along the Jarbidge River. The agency proposed designating 131 miles of streams in Idaho and Nevada as critical habitat — which sets aside land essential […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
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This election day, Arizonans will decide who can vote in future elections — and what they’ll have to bring with them to the polls. Proposition 200, or the Arizona Tax Payer and Citizen Protection Act initiative, would prevent noncitizens from voting, require all voters to present identification at the polls, and also require state and […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
State judges get political
Special-interest money pours into hotly contested judge campaigns