The founders of the Southwest Center for Biological
Diversity - Robin Silver, Kieran Suckling and Peter Galvin - are
uncompromising and obsessive in their goal of preserving endangered
species.
Magazine
March 30, 1998
The founders of the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity - Robin Silver, Kieran Suckling and Peter Galvin - are uncompromising and obsessive in their goal of preserving endangered species.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, physician and photographer Robin Silver
describes the strategy and ideals of the Southwest Center for
Biological Diversity.
In his own words, philosopher and activist Kieran Suckling
describes the vision behind his involvement with the Southwest
Center for Biological Diversity.
In his own words, activist Peter Galvin explains how he
came to be involved in the creation of the Southwest Center for
Biological Diversity.
Fish biologists Jim Cooper and Jerry Stefferud and retiree
Leon Fager are among the staffers of the Southwest Region of the
Forest Service who say the agency has betrayed its trust by
favoring timber and grazing over wildlife and forests.
Book Reviews
Photographer Sara Wiles exhibits 20 years of powerful
photographs of Wyoming's Arapaho people.
Photographer Bruce Hucko's exhibit "Images from an Untamed
Land" celebrates the Four Corners region.
The third annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium features
Aldo Leopold's Legacy, April 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The 101st National Western Mining Conference and
Exhibition will be held April 15-18 in Colorado Springs,
Colo.
Gov. Jim Geringer of Wyoming will speak to biologists and
ranchers on "Are Feedgrounds Forever?" at the Wyoming Wildlife
Federation annual meeting May 15-17 in Dubois, Wyo.
Public land agencies in Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska
have issued a guide to high school groups and college students for
hands-on experience.
The 20th annual High Desert Conference is slated for April
30-May 3 at the Malheur Field Station near Burns, Ore.
News
The National Park Service is being sued by three
environmental organizations for allowing private "bioprospecting"
in Yellowstone National Park and backing off from its mandate to
protect the park's resources.
The American Heritage Rivers Initiative, intended to help
rivers such as Colorado's North Fork of the Gunnison, meets
surprising opposition from Western conservatives.
Idaho Gov. Phil Batt defends state; Stone Container Corp.
settlement; Oregon's Wes Cooley back again; Rep. Chris Cannon loves
Lake Powell; USFS buys Valles Caldera in New Mexico.
"Heritage Expeditions" for ambitious ecotourists with
extra cash, are a new part of the user fee demonstration program
that some think will raise money while educating people about
natural and cultural sites.
The nonprofit Global Exchange offers "reality tours" that
put tourists face-to-face with poverty and other problems,
including environmental issues.
A "sheep war" in a Colorado subdivision where neighbors
are battling over the eight sheep one family owns, shows two dreams
of the West in collision, with a lot of legal fireworks.
Locals and critics charge that Vail Associates is using a
ski area expansion as an excuse to develop the area and sell
valuable real estate at the expense of elk and lynx
habitat.
Some locals are upset over the EPA's desire to expand its
mining cleanup in Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Basin.
An audit shows that money intended for Colorado state
wildlife programs has been spent to buy land for prisons in Rifle
and Delta.
A grand jury's "secret" report on Colorado's Rocky Flats
bomb factory reveals a reckless decade at the nuclear weapons plant
before it was closed in 1989.
The controversial Mohave power plant in Laughlin, Nev., is
a huge operation that provides pollution as well as power to the
Southwest.
Heard Around the West
Bears like pepper spray; bear-proof containers; "Rapture"
Society; "superworms" not super; Westerners love themselves;
fencing Yellowstone; ski the potato; marijuana equals
activism.
Dear Friends
Postal stuff; Lynda Taylor leaves HCN board; Dustin
Solberg returns; visitors; Great Basin magazine ends.
Opinion
A former Hopi chairman says that the owners of the Mohave
Generating Station in Laughlin, Nev., whose smoke pollutes the air
of the Hopi Reservation, have the ability and the obligation to
clean up the plant without closing down.
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