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A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service

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

A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
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.

Sidebar

In pursuit of crooked feds
In his own words, physician and photographer Robin Silver describes the strategy and ideals of the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity.
Modern 'civilization' is a doomsday machine
In his own words, philosopher and activist Kieran Suckling describes the vision behind his involvement with the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity.
He found spotted owls; the agency ignored them
In his own words, activist Peter Galvin explains how he came to be involved in the creation of the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity.
Staffers say their agency betrayed the land
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

20 years with the Arapaho
Photographer Sara Wiles exhibits 20 years of powerful photographs of Wyoming's Arapaho people.
The Four Corners celebrated in photos
Photographer Bruce Hucko's exhibit "Images from an Untamed Land" celebrates the Four Corners region.
Exploring Aldo Leopold's Legacy: The Land Ethic and the American West in the 21st Century
The third annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium features Aldo Leopold's Legacy, April 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
101st National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition
The 101st National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition will be held April 15-18 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Are feedgrounds forever?
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.
North Zone Volunteer and Internship Opportunities Guide
Public land agencies in Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska have issued a guide to high school groups and college students for hands-on experience.
High Desert Conference
The 20th annual High Desert Conference is slated for April 30-May 3 at the Malheur Field Station near Burns, Ore.

News

Groups sue over microbes
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.
River heritage plan sent downstream
The American Heritage Rivers Initiative, intended to help rivers such as Colorado's North Fork of the Gunnison, meets surprising opposition from Western conservatives.
The Wayward West
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.
'Ecotourism' - a gold mine for ailing agencies?
"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.
Some tourists opt for a dose of reality
The nonprofit Global Exchange offers "reality tours" that put tourists face-to-face with poverty and other problems, including environmental issues.
The New West spawns a new kind of range war
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 protest Vail expansion
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.
Mined-over region resents EPA scrutiny
Some locals are upset over the EPA's desire to expand its mining cleanup in Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Basin.
Wildlife dollars fund prison
An audit shows that money intended for Colorado state wildlife programs has been spent to buy land for prisons in Rifle and Delta.
The secret's out
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.
A giant plume into the air
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

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

Dear Friends
Postal stuff; Lynda Taylor leaves HCN board; Dustin Solberg returns; visitors; Great Basin magazine ends.

Opinion

We can have electricity, jobs and clean air
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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