California rice farmers decide to destroy salmon-blocking
dams in their Sacramento Valley irrigation district.
Magazine
October 27, 1997
California rice farmers decide to destroy salmon-blocking dams in their Sacramento Valley irrigation district.
Feature
Sidebar
Other dams under consideration for possible destruction
include eight in Washington and Glen Canyon Dam in
Arizona.
Essays
The anti-grizzly hysteria shown by local men at a Salmon,
Idaho, meeting on bear reintroduction is filled with ironies for a
woman who has always had to be wary of large "predators."
The prospect of expanded low-level military training
flights by the German Air Force in the American Southwest will
"highly annoy" the local humans, and do more than just annoy the
wildlife.
Heard Around the West
Joe Camel needs work; Rolling Stones not playing Buffalo,
Wyo.; cows vs. mosquitoes; useful bird activities; decorating
outhouse walls; grizzlies vs. lodge in Katmai Nat'l Park in Alaska;
Testicle Festival in Clinton, Mont.
Dear Friends
Patricia Nelson Limerick speaks; kudos; green comic book;
fall visitors.
News
A proposed bombing range for the German Air Force in New
Mexico raises the ire of local ranchers and
environmentalists.
Snowmobilers and the tourist industry object to the Park
Service's plan to close some Yellowstone trails to snowmobiling in
an effort to curb the winter wandering of park bison.
Sierra Club on immigration; USFS Christian group, ACROSS;
Kevin Gover to head BIA; Tyrannosaurus Sue; Colorado politics;
USFS's Charles Cartwright under scrutiny; Jim Baca new mayor of
Albuquerque; governor's race in Idaho.
In Salmon, Idaho, a public hearing on the possible
reintroduction of grizzly bears reveals an almost-hysterical fear
of bears among many of the locals.
Utah's congressional delegation continues to try to
dismantle the new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument even
as the locals begin to learn to live with it.
In Washington, D.C., Republicans try to resuscitate bills
environmentalists thought they had killed.
Idaho environmentalists accuse the Forest Service of
withholding evidence that logging on steep slopes has caused recent
massive mudslides on the Clearwater National Forest.
Old-growth ponderosa pines fall in New Mexico when the
court denies Forest Guardian's attempt to stop the La Manga timber
sale.
The first year of chemical weapons incineration at Tooele,
Utah, has been full of stops and starts, but the Army claims good
progress has been made.
In northern New Mexico's Chama Valley, locals protest
logging on a Spanish land grant that the logging company claims is
private property.
Washington Sen. Patty Murray seeks to protect the stretch
of the Columbia River that flows through the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation - known as the Hanford Reach - as a wild and scenic
river, but many locals object.
The timber company that accidentally burned 8,000 acres of
Arizona's Coconino National Forest will be allowed to bid on a
salvage timber sale in the burned area.
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