An unusual new book put out by the U.S. Geological Survey,
"Dams and Rivers: A Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams," is
reviewed by Tom Knudson.
Magazine
February 2, 1998
An unusual new book put out by the U.S. Geological Survey, "Dams and Rivers: A Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams," is reviewed by Tom Knudson.
Feature
Essays
A wildlands- and buffalo-loving activist writes
passionately about restoring the Great Plains in a Buffalo
Commons.
A conservationist muses on how his father, an Iranian-born
obstetrician in the Appalachian Mountains, gave him the gift of the
Clearwater River in the wilderness of Idaho.
Clearcut hillsides, floods and mudslides on Idaho's
Clearwater River raise a warning that the land is dying.
Ten years later, Frank and Deborah Popper review their
controversial proposal for a Buffalo Commons, and find that many of
their predictions are coming true.
Book Reviews
"Atlas of the New West" explores a rapidly changing place
with maps and thoughtful essays, and it can also direct you to a
rodeo, or to the nearest copy of The New York Times.
"Heart of Home: People, Wildlife, Place" by Ted Kerasote
is reviewed by Stephen Lyons.
"Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California
Water Future" by John Hart is reviewed by Jane Braxton
Little.
Steve Chapple's "Confessions of an Eco-Redneck" is
reviewed by David Helvarg.
Friends of the River's 18th Annual Rivers Festival, Feb.
20-22, at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Calif., will
focus on "Protecting Rivers for the Next Generation."
"Rabies, Lyme Disease, Hanta Virus and Other Animal-Borne
Human Diseases in the United States and Canada" by E. Lendell
Cockrum is reviewed.
Trout Unlimited is trying to restore native wild trout to
Colorado's rivers and lakes.
"The Next West: Public Lands, Community and Economy in the
American West," edited by John Baden and Donald Snow, is
reviewed.
Environmentalists are fighting the Forest Service's
proposal to open 370,000 acres south of Yellowstone to oil and gas
leasing.
The Park Service plans to restrict cars in Grand Canyon,
Zion and Yosemite national parks, replacing them with light rail
and buses.
The 1998 Arkansas River Basin Water Forum meets in La
Junta, Colo., Feb. 4-5.
The North American Interdisciplinary Conference on
Environment and Community is set for Feb. 19-21 at the University
of Nevada in Reno.
The International Association of Wildland Fire holds its
second conference March 29-April 1 in Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho.
A Defenders of Wildlife conference, Restoring the Wolf, is
set for Nov. 12-14 in Seattle, Washington.
Heard Around the West
Spam and other worst recipes; bears raiding Denver
fridges; South Dakota's religious tolerance; deer jumps into
Montana van; what helicopters spy in the Central Arizona Project's
canals; cow pie lagoons; Hong Kong film subtitles.
Dear Friends
Kevin Markey visits; more visitors; congratulations, Skip
Edwards and Margaret Murie; winter intern J.T. Thomas.
News
Zoologist Ronald Nowak resigns from the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service in protest over the agency's failure to do its job
listing and protecting threatened species such as the Canada
lynx.
The Supreme Court rules that the Isleta Pueblo tribe in
New Mexico has the right to order the city of Albuquerque to end
its dumping in the Rio Grande River.
Parks may restrict jet skis; Yellowstone will keep Hayden
Valley trail open to snowmobiles; Delyla Wilson sentenced for
bison-guts protest; USFS to do land swap with Weyerhaeuser in
Wash.'s Cascades; John Mumma to retire from Colo. Division of
Wildlife.
Southwestern ranchers Jim Winder and Will Holder team up
with Defenders of Wildlife to create a seal-of-approval for beef
sold by ranchers who avoid killing predators.
Cattle ranchers in Montana and other Western states are
earning extra money by charging hunters to hunt on private property
to which they once allowed free access.
Conservationists are unhappy about development company
Jeld Wen Inc.'s proposal to build an "ecologically sensitive" ski
resort at Pelican Butte in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's tangle with Republicans
in Congress who want to have him investigated by a special
prosecutor for denying an Indian casino in Wis., is simply another
example of the new "culture of scandal" in action.
The Clinton administration's proposed moratorium on road
building in roadless areas is meeting criticism from the timber
industry, as well as from environmentalists who say the proposal
excludes too much land.
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