Kennecott Copper wants to clean up Bingham Canyon copper
mine on its own, while Environmental Protection Agency wants to
make it a Superfund site.
Magazine

May 30, 1994
Kennecott Copper wants to clean up Bingham Canyon copper mine on its own, while Environmental Protection Agency wants to make it a Superfund site.
Feature
Sidebar
Survey finds faulty screens at more than half of
Northwest's dams.
Environmental Protection Agency wants to put gold and
copper mines under Superfund regulations.
Book Reviews
The Colorado Environmental Coalition opens new office in
Grand Junction.
Regulatory Takings Resources: What are the Constitutional
Limits set for University of Colorado.
Colorado Central is new magazine by Ed and Martha
Quillen.
Two reports look at abuses in Animal Damage Control
program.
New wind turbines spur four wind-power projects in the
West.
Or West: Loving the Land conference set for
Wyoming.
Bureau of Reclamation releases draft plan to change the
way the Colorado River is managed in Nevada, Arizona and
California.
Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning and
Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative to host Sharing the Land:
Preserving Jackson Whole.
Rangeland Reform "94 hearings set.
American Rivers lists 10 endangered rivers.
Citizens' Wilderness Proposal for Wyoming BLM lands being
developed.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research hires
physicist for groups that work on nuclear issues.
Western Legislative Conference to host Rangeland Reform
and Watershed Management in the West.
Rocky Times in Rocky Mountain National Park - An Unnatural
History by Karl Hess Jr. reviewed.
Dear Friends
Good news for staff; Fan mail for Gretchen; Recycled
paper; Flights over Grand Canyon; March for trees;
Visitors.
News
National Marine Fisheries Service orders eight Columbia
and Snake river dams to spill water to help save salmon.
Lawsuit forces Idaho to cancel permit for shooting
coyotes.
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources scaled back and shaken
up.
Proposal for nuclear energy plant near Show Low, Ariz.,
wasn't real.
Forest Service develops regulations to quell violence in
Northwest's booming mushroom business.
Skull Valley Goshute Tribe joins forces with two
environmental engineering firms in recycling business.
Barrick Goldstrike Mines pays U.S. $10,000 for $10 billion
in gold.
American Water Development Inc. loses battle for San Luis,
Colo., water.
Proposal for park spanning Northern Cascades in U.S. and
Canada is controversial.
Group wants to stop impending destruction of Savage Rapids
Dam in Oregon.
Marijuana dropped into Maricopa County, Ariz., irrigation
canal could sprout plants all over county.
Opinion
Yellowstone elk destroying the biodiversity and ecological
integrity of ecosystem.
Why Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance doesn't participate
in advisory groups.
Letters
- Was Yellowstone’s deadliest wolf hunt in 100 years an inside job?
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Alaska’s Willow Project promises huge amounts of oil — and huge environmental impacts
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
- The fires below
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