The July 4 Shovel Brigade rally was a yawner, but protesters may still get what they want
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Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
The snail that stands like a dam
Grand Canyon restoration hinges on the recovery of a tiny, talented mollusk
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Up in smoke: Hanford fire releases plutonium
Activists worried about airborne ash
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Colorado blazes fuel forest restoration efforts
Front Range communities work to protect their water supply from post-fire soil erosion
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Climbing is the easy part
COLORADO To scale a “fourteener,” it helps to possess the body of a goat and the nerves of a test pilot. To climb 14,047-foot Culebra Peak in southern Colorado, you also need to join a club. Culebra Peak is part of the 77,000-acre Taylor Ranch near San Luis, Colo., which was sold last year to […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
The Wayward West
In the wake of the Los Alamos fire, New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, R, is proposing a bill that some worry is another “salvage rider” (HCN, 9/2/96: Last line of defense). Domenici says that in order to reduce fire danger, federal agencies should be able to thin trees without enduring lengthy environmental review. Environmentalists say […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Protesters rock roadless area hearings
MONTANA Hundreds of logging trucks and busloads of protesters circled downtown Missoula, Mont., June 21 to rail against the Forest Service’s proposal to protect 43 million acres of its roadless forests. About 2,000 people from all corners of western Montana joined a barbecue and rally sponsored by the timber and off-road-vehicle industries. Loggers and millworkers […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Tooele opens the door to more toxics
UTAH Writer Chip Ward has called his home turf of Tooele County, Utah, the “most extensive environmental sacrifice zone in the nation” (HCN, 2/14/00: Canaries in the Utah desert). The 7,600-square-mile county on the western edge of the state is home to a chemical-weapons burner, a biological warfare proving ground, a bombing range, a hazardous-waste […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Expansion faces restrictions
COLORADO Telski, the ski resort in southern Colorado’s Telluride, is expanding onto national forest lands now that a lawsuit brought by two locals and two environmental groups has been settled (HCN, 8/4/97: A do-over in Telluride). In an out-of-court agreement, Telski owner, Telluride Ski & Golf Co., was authorized to add 733 acres, nearly doubling […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
The basin has a much-ballyhooed plan
NORTHWEST No one’s holding their breath, but approval may be close for an interagency plan outlining management of 63 million acres of federal land across Idaho, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon and western Montana (HCN, 6/23/97: New plan draws hisses, boos). In the works for over six years, the hefty and ballyhooed Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Environmentalists challenge aerial gunning program
COLORADO Shooting coyotes from the air came under fire this spring. Twenty environmental groups sent a letter to Colorado Bureau of Land Management Director Ann Morgan demanding a halt to aerial gunning in the state until the agency studies its effects on wildlife. “Aerial gunning needs to stop because of the biological impact and the […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Caterpillar concoction causes concern
OREGON, WASHINGTON The U.S. Forest Service is using ground-up caterpillars and another biological insecticide to target an infestation of tussock moths on national forests in the Pacific Northwest. In a widespread outbreak in the 1970s, the moths defoliated trees across 700,000 acres in Oregon and Washington. The agency hopes that the caterpillar concoction, which carries […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Idaho labs blow another stack
IDAHO Last winter, when Jackson Hole, Wyo., residents sued the Department of Energy to stop a nuclear waste incinerator planned for Idaho, it was just the tip of the smokestack (HCN, 4/10/00: Incinerator plans go up in smoke). In early June, two conservation groups, Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free and Idaho’s Environmental Defense Institute, notified the […]
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Drying up the Melon capital
Farmers in a small Colorado town plan to sell their water
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Los Alamos races against time
Summer monsoons could wash laboratory waste into the San Ildefonso Pueblo and the Rio Grande
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Freedom of speech shines in Arizona cave
State reinstates biologist fired for criticizing managers at Kartchner Caverns
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
A gutsy activist challenges a powerful industry
California off-roaders kiss their unregulated days good-bye
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Utah’s river kid takes on the water buffaloes
Where is Utah’s water needed most: in fading farming towns or booming cities?
Posted inJuly 3, 2000: A river resurrected
Red Mountain tries to hang on to history
Locals want to put an abandoned mining district in public hands
Posted inJune 25, 2007: Predator hunters for the environment
Watershed moment
A former California timber town becomes ground zero in the battle over bottled water