California's Mono Lake has been saved from Los Angeles'
thirst, but a new local battle is brewing over the water in the
lake's streams, and the question of how far to take restoration of
the area.
Magazine
December 8, 1997
California's Mono Lake has been saved from Los Angeles' thirst, but a new local battle is brewing over the water in the lake's streams, and the question of how far to take restoration of the area.
Feature
Essays
A law professor describes the legal process by which
California's Mono Lake was preserved from the thirsty city of Los
Angeles.
A human rights activist considers the ways in which the
"New Righters of the Purple Sage" arrive at and promote their
ideas.
Book Reviews
The Student Conservation Corp. seeks interns who want to
work on conservation projects all over the country.
Giant fossilized termite mounds are discovered by
geobiologists near Gallup, N.M.
Heard Around the West
Alfred E. Neuman goes West; strange true crime stories;
Utah vs. Olympics beer; Utah vs. Rodin; "Jerks in Montana history,"
D.I.A. and blizzards; suggestions for future.
Dear Friends
HCN research fund; Herman F. Dieterich; turkeys are
gone.
News
Environmentalists appeal a huge salvage timber sale in
Utah's Manti-La Sal National Forest, and hope that an agency ruling
in their favor proves the salvage logging rider is dead at
last.
The trees that Weyerhaeuser Co. replanted after Mount St.
Helens erupted in 1980 are doing surprisingly well.
Some say the Park Service is overreacting in closing some
areas of Mount Rainier National Park to visitors to protect them
from possible mudslides.
Cyprus-Amax is determined to start mining molybdenum near
Crested Butte, Colo., despite local opposition which defeated the
company once 20 years ago.
Quincy Library Group bill; Navajos reject gambling; no
money from Clinton for Mt. Graham telescope; Rep. Peter DeFazio
seeks mining royalties instead of user fees; truce on logging in
Rio Arriba County, N.M.; Romer approves "A-LP Lite.'
The Tohono O'odham Tribal Council decides against building
a controversial casino on ancient ruins.
A dam on the Diamond Fork River goes down, but the Central
Utah Project still lives, with a plan to pump reservoir water to
farmers, although not to Salt Lake City.
Native Americans welcome the return of endangered
black-footed ferrets to the Fort Belknap Reservation.
In Congress, Democrats and Republicans engage in
complicated battles over the Endangered Species Act.
The Forest Service puts together a land swap that saves a
530-acre grove of 1,200-year-old trees from logging.
Opinion
The 60-member Wanapum Tribe has never lost its spiritual
connection to Washington's Columbia River, and is now hoping to
reclaim the only free-flowing stretch left - the Hanford
Reach.
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