Is the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency going to clean up
beleaguered Lake Tahoe and its surroundings - or simply drive a
wedge between the elite and the working class in the
community?
Magazine
May 12, 1997
Is the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency going to clean up beleaguered Lake Tahoe and its surroundings - or simply drive a wedge between the elite and the working class in the community?
Feature
Sidebar
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency was created in 1969 to
protect and restore Lake Tahoe.
Back in 1997, President Clinton and Vice President Gore came to
Lake Tahoe for a summit on the lake's environment and
development.
Three quotes from three individuals involved in the Lake
Tahoe controversy.
Uncommon Westerners
HCN honors the memory of Wyoming's Dick Randall, who went
from killing coyotes for Animal Damage Control to being the
strongest critic of that agency.
Book Reviews
A workshop will explore the health of public land and
grazing practices on June 14-15 at Northern Arizona State
University.
Sawtooth National Recreation Area celebrates 25 years at
the Wild Idaho! conference, May 16-18, at Redfish Lake Lodge near
Stanley.
Review of "The Great American Wolf" by Bruce
Hampton
The reports by the Oregon-based Western States Center
document a chilling rise of incidents of harassment of
environmentals and public employees by wise-users' extremist
allies.
A survey of the Grand Canyon region's lower-income
residents shows that they favor protecting the environment over
promoting economic growth.
The new "Northwest Salmon Recovery Report" provides an
independent voice on regional salmon issues.
The U.S. Air Force tries again to get air space over the
Owyhee Canyonlands for bombing and training flights.
The Alliance for a Paving Moratorium publishes a
quarterly, "Auto-Free Times," out of Arcata, California.
Heard Around the West
EPA joke network; debunking of "net myth"; comments at
Wyo.'s Bridger Wilderness; retorts from Jack Gilluly; Disney's Wild
West Show in France needs Indians; polygamist Alma Aldebert Timpson
dies; Great Old Broads; Westerners swap jobs; "Spam"
haiku.
Dear Friends
Spring visitors, feedback, HCN's potluck in Paonia May
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News
The West has had one of its wettest winters ever, and as
the snow keeps falling in the high country, fear of flooding
arises.
Meeteetse, Wyo., rancher Martin Thomas will argue in court
that he was justified in gunning down nine elk with an assault
rifle because of the threat of brucellosis to cattle.
Utah Paiutes join environmentalists in protesting the
BLM's "chaining" of tree stumps to clear land in central Utah after
fires.
Benewah County, Idaho, officials face environmental
troubles after cutting down hundreds of cottonwoods to stabilize a
levee along the rising St. Joe River.
Migrating songbirds are threatened as Mexican and Central
American coffee plantations cut down shade trees to increase the
coffee yield.
The furor over Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's national
forest-reforming bill is really much ado about nothing in the
rather tame 105th Congress.
A federal judge allows chemical weapons incinerating to go
on at Tooele, Utah, despite environmental warnings of the
dangers.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service starts the process of
listing the bull trout under the Endangered Species Act.
Hull-Oakes Lumber Company wants to make a museum of a
90-year-old mill near Monroe, Ore., but environmentalists believe
the company's stipulating that it get subsidized timber at the mill
won't wash.
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt tries to calm the state's bitter
wilderness debate with a camping trip in proposed wilderness area -
but no one wants to come.
Oregon is given the chance to try its own recovery plan
for coho salmon, while the southern population of the fish in
California is listed under the federal Endangered Species
Act.
Montana's Crow Indians are fighting to get money they say
was improperly collected in coal severance taxes from Crow-owned
coal.
Millions of pounds of leftover potato sludge dumped by the
Idaho Pacific potato processing plant in Ririe, Idaho, are creating
a messy, stinky problem, according to local residents.
Navajo ranchers are warming up to the idea of range reform
on their overgrazed, drought-damaged reservation.
Washington's Congressman Norm Dicks is pushing for the
reintroduction of wolves in his district's Olympic National
Park.
Marathon Oil Company is suing to get into lands pulled
from a routine oil and gas lease sale because they are in a
roadless, possible wilderness area.
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