As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 125th
birthday, it continues to struggle with the surrounding states over
wildlife management and other questions.
Magazine
September 15, 1997
As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 125th birthday, it continues to struggle with the surrounding states over wildlife management and other questions, including whether "natural regulation" is letting the park's elk herds overgraze their ranges.
Feature
Maverick ecologist Richard Keigley believes Yellowstone's
policy of "natural regulation" is not working and, in fact, is
harming the park - especially with the park's elk herds, which he
says are overgrazing their ranges.
Sidebar
Scientist Richard Keigley studies Yellowstone's trees to
back up his contention that the park's elk herds are out of control
and need regulation.
In their own words, ecologist Charles Kay denounces
Yellowstone's policy of "natural regulation," while ecologist Mark
Boyce defends it.
Essays
A bison which found refuge in Vickie Dyar's barn in West
Yellowstone, Mont., was protected and fed by her last winter, to
save it from the notorious slaughter of escaped Yellowstone bison
considered at risk for brucellosis.
A Montana conservationist travels to Wyoming to talk about
wolves to often-hostile Wyomingites.
A Forest Service employee remembers the hard work of
illegal aliens in planting trees in the Klamath National
Forest.
Heard Around the West
Good news for cows; "Baywatch breakout" in NM; river
guides defend urine integrity; activist Delyla Wilson at fault for
hurling bison guts; flying reptiles in NM; Slick Rock Cafe beats
Hard Rock Cafe in lawsuit; Bill Gates' Seattle mansion.
Dear Friends
"Depressing ... diligent" among comments on the returned
1997 HCN readers' surveys; our readers are "no shrinking
violets."
News
One hundred years of heavy metals left from mining in
Idaho's Silver Valley are migrating through Lake Coeur d'Alene and
entering Washington via the Spokane River.
An unusually wet summer in the West has meant a very tame
fire season, which is good news for taxpayers but bad news for the
firefighters - many of them Native Americans - who depend on
firefighting paychecks for a living.
Helen Chenoweth, Barbara Cubin, Jim Hansen and Rick Hill
give Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay a tour of the West;
Bruce Babbitt, Sen. Slade Gorton on Elwha dam removal; convicted
Fife Symington resigns; Jane Dee Hull is Ariz. gov.; Ricky
Denesik
Wolves have killed at least 30 sheep in six weeks in
Montana's Tobacco Valley, and despite being compensated by
Defenders of Wildlife, some sheep ranchers are furious.
An attempt by the federal government to sell a small
irrigation project, the Collbran Project, to local water
conservancy districts runs into trouble because the public is not
consulted first.
A mapping project is set up in Oregon to identify sites at
risk for landslides, in an attempt to discourage both logging and
home building in dangerous areas.
In Utah, Canyonlands park officials and conservationists
are saying that an area slated for oil drilling, Lockhart Basin,
which is right outside the park boundaries, should be included in
the park and protected.
A small pest control company's product, Rid-a-Bird, is
blamed in the deaths of two protected birds, a hawk and an owl,
after Weyerhaeuser uses it to kill starlings at its Longview,
Wash., paper mill.
Scientists in the Pacific Northwest have launched a study
of the white sturgeon in the Columbia River - North America's
largest fish.
Biologists and conservationists protest BuRec's plan to
drown habitat of the southwestern willow flycatcher by raising the
waters of Arizona's Roosevelt Lake and by leaving other sensitive
habitat areas off the list of designated critical
habitat.
One of the problems facing the endangered southwestern
willow flycatcher can be found in the bird's nest, where the
opportunistic cowbird sneaks in its own eggs, hatching offspring
that out-compete the flycatcher's nestlings.
Some wildlife managers and environmentalists say the
National Elk Refuge at Jackson Hole, Wyo., should end its policy of
feeding elk every winter.
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