A ranching family's desire to develop a road to an
inholding in Arizona's Arrastra Mounain Wilderness is a microcosm
of the huge and unwieldy problem of inholdings on public lands
throughout the West.
Magazine
February 16, 1998
A ranching family's desire to develop a road to an inholding in Arizona's Arrastra Mounain Wilderness is a microcosm of the huge and unwieldy problem of inholdings on public lands throughout the West.
Feature
Sidebar
Developer Thomas E. Chapman has earned notoriety - and a
lot of money - buying, selling and trading wilderness inholdings in
Colorado.
Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area has long seen
trouble between the Forest Service and private inholders, and
manager Paul Ries is on the hot seat for trying to protect the
area.
In Washington's Skamania County, pressure is building to
get public lands in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
back into private hands.
Book Reviews
Richard Frazine's book, "The Barefoot Hiker," gives advice
on going barefoot in the woods.
The Wilderness Society and the Forest Service have
published reports that disagree entirely on how much money the
agency has lost through commercial timber sales in Washington and
Oregon.
University of California Professor Timothy P. Duane
compares the Quincy Library Group with another California consensus
group on the Yuba River watershed, and finds fault with the Quincy
Group.
In the Pacific Northwest, the overworked Chinook watershed
is the subject of a new restoration effort.
Design professionals can turn to the "Green Building
Resource Center" on the Internet for information.
"Western Colorado Pollution Prevention Program" offers
information about environmental regulations in a seminar April 22
in Grand Junction, Colo.
Colorado's High Country Alliance offers a conference,
"Gunnison River Basin/Grand Valley Water Quality Forum," Feb. 26 in
Montrose.
The 7th annual Winter Fishtrap Gathering is held Feb.
20-22 at Wallowa Lake, Ore.
Mesa County Water Association holds its fifth annual water
course Feb. 17 and 25 and March 3 in Grand Junction,
Colo.
National Audubon Society and Cornell University are
sponsoring the BirdSource Great "98 Backyard Bird Count, Feb.
20-22.
The "Baseline Scenario" study warns that Utahns in the
growing Salt Lake City area need to start managing growth
now.
The 7th annual "Land Use Continuing Education Conference"
is held March 12-13 in Denver, Colo.
Perspective
Although the money in the Land and Water Conservation
Trust Fund is usually taken for other purposes, this year Congress
has agreed to spend the conservation trust fund for land and water
conservation.
Heard Around the West
Alluring trees on trial; posh Park City party; pity
Arizona; golf in Arizona; polo field in Grand Junction; no
affordable housing in Ketchum; no bike lands at DIA; acronyms
aplenty at INEEL.
Dear Friends
Tucson potluck; 18,500 readers; Malpai Borderlands Group;
calling all newsletters; freelancer doings; Big Velvet
corrections.
News
The Snow Creek golf course in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., has a
permit to turn 95 acres of the Inyo National Forest into an
expansion of the golf course.
The native Yaqui catfish is being restored to Arizona's
San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge.
Western senators flunk conservation report card; Joshua
Tree landfill rejected; Yucca Mtn. ot ready for waste; Hart Mtn.,
Ore., coyotes safe from guns, but Yellowstone bison are not; BLM
looking at Utah's Lockhart Basin.
The first endangered Mexican wolves are returned to the
wild in southern Arizona and New Mexico's Apache and Gila national
forests.
The barred owl has moved into the territory of the
endangered spotted owl, and its tendency to compete with, prey on
and occasionally mate with the spotted owl may doom the endangered
bird.
A conservation effort will protect the water in Colorado's
Snowmass Creek, as well as nearby land and a trailer
park.
The powerful computer chip manufacturer Intel Corp. loses
a bid to buy water rights from farmers near Socorro, N.M.
ASARCO's plans to mine copper in Arizona's Santa Rita
Mountains have been put on hold.
Scientist Sam Wasser has trained dogs to sniff out bear
and wolf droppings in the wild, so the scat can be analyzed to find
how many animals live in an area and where their prime habitat
is.
Letters
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Wildfire kills Klamath fish: ‘Everything that’s in there is dead.’
- A new investigation reveals depth of skewed policing in Siskiyou County
- Record rainfall, bears and French toast at Anchorage’s new city-sanctioned homeless encampment
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
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