The management of wild horses on Montana's Pryor
Mountain's Wild Horse Range is caught between the love Americans
have for the animal and the concern some environmentalists have for
the impact it has on the land.
Magazine
March 2, 1998
The management of wild horses on Montana's Pryor Mountain's Wild Horse Range is caught between the love Americans have for the animal and the concern some environmentalists have for the impact it has on the land.
Feature
Sidebar
BLM and wild horse watchers disagree over how many of the
animals roam Nevada and what kind of impact they're having in the
state.
Cultures around the world differ over whether horse meat
is a suitable food for people.
Essays
A long, hot hike into - and back out of - the Grand Canyon
takes the writer into the heart of a park that is beautiful, much
visited, and still very dangerous.
Book Reviews
The 16th Annual Public Interest Law Conference: "Activists
and Advocates Demanding Accountability" scheduled for March 5-8 in
Eugene, Ore.
A report called "Raptors and Climbers" by Kathryn Pyke of
the Access Fund offers suggestions on protecting cliff-nesting
raptors without banning rock climbing.
The BLM announces that an additional 167,000 acres of
western Colorado's roadless public lands are eligible for
wilderness status.
The nonprofit Solar Energy International offers courses in
water, wind and solar power.
Washington State University sets up an advisory board to
cooperate on education and research issues with 10 Northwestern
tribes.
"Colorado's Wildlife Company," a report from the state
Division of Wildlife, offers information for backyard
birders.
Club 20 will holds its 46th annual meeting March 6-7 in
Grand Junction, Colo.
College students are invited to apply to the 1998
Southwest Earth Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango,
Colo.
The Forest Stewardship Council will begin touring Boise,
Salt Lake City and Missoula, promoting earth-friendly
products.
Heard Around the West
Aspen fashion and ski lift prices; Vail absolutely miffed;
Simpsons wisdom; cougar roast; Delta, Colo., ATV ranting; hoovering
the air of Phoenix.
Dear Friends
Old and older Aspen (Sam Caudill); other news and
visitors; junkyard dogs (Marlene Zanetell); Selcraig's correct
e-mail address.
News
Navajo President Albert Hale resigns in the face of up to
50 criminal counts.
The San Rafael Ranch in southern Arizona will be preserved
through a conservation easement funded by State Heritage Fund
money.
Canada lynx listed; Wayne Taylor Jr. ew Hopi chairman;
John Mumma stays with Colo. Div. of Wildlife; Yellowstone's top law
officer, Dan Sholly, transferred; judge rejects landfill next to
Joshua Tree Nat. Park, Calif.; cows barred from Utah's Comb
Wash.
The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission restricts
some high-tech hunting tools and tactics - although not as many as
hunter and activist Allen Weinert recommended.
Developers, residents and conservationists battle over the
rapid growth outside the park.
The Mohave Generating Plant in southern Nevada is blamed
for much of the air pollution that shrouds Grand Canyon, but the
plant's owners say cleaning it up will force the plant to close and
lay off Navajo workers.
Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck says there are over
60,000 miles of unmapped "ghost roads" in national
forests.
The Department of Energy plans to ship five loads of
nuclear waste from Concord, Calif., to the Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
Sen. Slade Gorton waffles over the removal of one of the
two unpopular dams on Washington's Elwha River.
The Forest Service restricts some of the access off-road
vehicles have to Idaho's Targhee National Forest.
The controversial Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near
Carlsbad, N.M., is scheduled to open to store nuclear waste this
spring.
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