Two whistleblowers - safety auditor Casey Ruud and
geophysicist John Brodeur - find that radioactive waste from some
of the biggest, leaking storage tanks has already reached
groundwater and is heading toward the Columbia River.
Magazine

September 1, 1997
Two whistleblowers - safety auditor Casey Ruud and geophysicist John Brodeur - find that radioactive waste from some of the biggest, leaking storage tanks has already reached groundwater and is heading toward the Columbia River.
Feature
Sidebar
Peter Chilson editorializes on the Idaho Statesman's
editorials.
Essays
The Idaho Statesman goes out on a limb with editorials
suggesting that four dams on the Snake River - Lower Granite,
Little Goose, Lower Monumental and Ice Harbor - be torn down to
help the recovery of endangered salmon.
Book Reviews
Herpetologists are collecting records on malformed
amphibians in an attempt to find the cause of the
mutations.
The Wilderness Society is requesting a moratorium on
logging in Idaho's 8 million acres of unprotected roadless
forest.
The Forest Service wants to restore Oregon's Fish Creek,
damaged by logging, roadbuilding and landslides.
Environmentalists want to close some backcountry roads
near Paonia, Colo., that are increasingly popular with all-terrain
vehicles.
Michael Jackson, co-founder of the Quincy Library Group,
will speak Sept. 5 in Olathe, Colo.
Hikers and trail activists will converge on Vail, Colo.,
Sept. 6-7 for a Continental Divide Trail Alliance
conference.
Members and friends of the Montana Environmental
Information Center will rendezvous Sept. 13 in the Bitterroot
Valley.
The Waterton-Glacier International Writers Workshop will
be held Sept. 25-27, in Missoula, Mont.
The Great Old Broads for Wilderness Annual Broadwalk and
Conference will be held Sept. 29-Oct. 5 in Utah's Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
The Connections conference, from Oct. 2-5, will be held in
Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park and includes speaker Dave
Foreman.
The American Birding Association is sponsoring the Young
Birder of the Year Competition.
Heard Around the West
The "sunscreen speech"; tourist questions; bats in the
bleachers in St. George, Utah; little old ladies and drug
smuggling; scary stories from Hanford.
Dear Friends
Corrections; Cal Sunderland's update on radiation therapy;
visitors; cougar seen in Paonia, Colo.; environmentalist Sandy
Sargent dies of leukemia.
News
A federal court upholds a six-week ban on 20 timber sales
and bars grazing from 11 Southwestern forests while judges consider
charges that the Forest Service has not protected endangered
species, including the southwestern willow flycatcher.
Severe thunderstorms have caused flash floods in Arizona,
killing people near Douglas and in Antelope Canyon, derailing a
train and leading to the evacuation of residents and tourists from
a Havasupai Indian village just outside Grand Canyon.
Mike Austin of the BLM's Twin Falls, Idaho, office, says
he is being reassigned as punishment for blowing the whistle on his
boss's personal business deal with a farmer cited for plowing up
public land.
Conoco begins drilling for oil on state school-trust lands
located inside Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.
Greenpeace USA crashes and makes extreme cutbacks; Phil
Hocker leaves Mineral Policy Center; Ted Turner plans to breed
Mexican wolves on his N.M. ranch; Forest Service says no to checks;
Bill Yellowtail is reappointed to Denver EPA office.
On Arizona's Tohono O'odham Reservation, a controversial
tribal council plan would build a casino on land where a
700-year-old village and graves are buried.
Two dams proposed for Utah's Uinta Mountains, which would
provide water and work for the Uintah Basin's Native Americans,
face environmental opposition.
The Utah congressional delegation's continued attacks on
President Clinton only serve to confuse the real issues raised by
the president's declaration of the Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument.
Biologist Brian Woodbridge tracks Swainson's hawks from
California to Argentina, and discovers that many are being killed
by pesticide-contaminated grasshoppers.
Zachary Taylor sells a third of the controversial Taylor
Ranch - locally known as La Sierra - to an undisclosed
buyer.
A copper mine planned by ASARCO for southern Arizona's
Santa Rita Mountains meets fierce opposition from local ranchers,
retirees and environmentalists.
Environmentalists charge that escaped hatchery salmon in
Puget Sound are a "living pollutant" that harms endangered wild
salmon and should be regulated.
A private company's plan to store nuclear waste on western
Utah's Goshute Indian Reservation would bring money to the tribe,
but cause environmental harm, Utah critics say.
The Montana National Guard is stymied by prairie dogs
threatening underground power lines and communications systems at
Fort Harrison.
Opinion
Architect and developer Michael Reynolds runs into trouble
with Taos County, N.M., over his belief that the "Earthships" he
builds don't require building permits or fall under local land-use
regulations.
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