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Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs

April 13, 1998

Utah's remote and little known Book Cliffs area seemed ripe for preservation under an innovative, locally grown initiative - until oilman Oscar Wyatt stepped in to challenge it.

Feature

Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Utah's remote and little known Book Cliffs area seemed ripe for preservation under an innovative, locally grown initiative - until oilman Oscar Wyatt stepped in to challenge it.
Michelle Nijhuis April 13, 1998 From the print edition

Sidebar

Training and bombing range expansions at a glance
Proposed military expansions in various Western states.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition

Essays

Be careful what you wish for the wolves
The complicated legal saga of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone offers a cautionary tale for activists and their lawyers.
Bruce Weide And Pat Tucker Essay April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Wyoming: The last tough place
A Wyoming man celebrates the difficulty of living in his wild, lonely, poor, unsophisticated state - the "last good place left."
Tom Reed Essay April 13, 1998 From the print edition
The birth, life, and coming death of a Wyoming dam
Someday the Shoshone Dam at the end of the North Fork of Wyoming's Shoshone River will be only a memory, transformed by its silted-up reservoir into a gigantic waterfall.
Lynne Bama Essay April 13, 1998 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Scat Spot, scat
The Wolf Education Research Center in Boise, Idaho, will train dogs to sniff out the scat of endangered species.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Grizzlies on staff
The Glacier Institute teaches students of all ages about Glacier National Park.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
All that glitters...
The Mono County Mining Committee is organizing against a proposed open-pit gold mine near Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Partial measurements
Colorado State University Professor Steven Abt has a computer program that will help landowners extend the life of the Parshall Flumes that irrigate Colorado fields.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Playing by the rules
The video "Rules of the Snow" offers safety tips for Western snowmobilers.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Mine your jewelry box
The Missoula, Mont., group, Women's Voices for the Earth, suggests gold jewelry be recycled instead of new gold being mined.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Outdoor Recreation: Promise and Peril in the New West
The Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado holds its 19th annual summer conference June 8-10.
Short Takes April 13, 1998 From the print edition
California Water Map
The updated California Water Map explains the state's complex network of water projects.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
The Western Ancient Forest Campaign
The Western Ancient Forest Campaign has a new office in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Hells Canyon benefit float trip
Hells Canyon Preservation Council and Northwest Ecosystem Alliance sponsor a wooden/dorie benefit float trip down the Snake River, June 1.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
National Audubon Society biennial convention
The National Audubon Society holds its biennial convention July 6-11 in Estes Park, Colo.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Getting it right: a policy agenda for local population activism
Judith E. Jacobsen, a member of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, offers a provocative paper, available from University of Colorado's Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy.
Staff April 13, 1998 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West
Vail snowshoer meets cougar; cougars eat dogs in Nev; grizzlies "unacceptable species" in Idaho county; death-row dogs in Ore.; Denver coyote; Bruce Babbitt missing?; Gov. Racicot meets school kids; pennies from heaven in Utah; expensive Pentagon screws.
Betsy Marston April 13, 1998 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Questions and visitors; an evening with Stewart Udall; HCN in Awake!
Ed Marston April 13, 1998 From the print edition

News

Feds propose weak organic food rules
Colorado organic rancher Mel Coleman rallies opposition to proposed new federal standards on "organic" label that would allow antibiotics and chemicals in so-called organic beef.
Tara Thomas And Greg Hanscom April 13, 1998 From the print edition
The Wayward West
Nez Perce fire wolf man Timm Kaminski; Helen Chenoweth defends property rights; Zortman-Landusky mine closes; Utah's Lisbon Valley mine going ahead; Victor, Colo., gold mine must come clean.
Dustin Solberg April 13, 1998 From the print edition
A few fish may move a mountain of tailings
The radioactive uranium tailings on the banks of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, may be moved to protect the endangered squawfish from contaminants in the river.
Michelle Nijhuis April 13, 1998 From the print edition
EPA to ASARCO: Time to pay
The EPA fines ASARCO $62 million with most of the money going to clean up a copper mine in Ray, Ariz., and a smelter in East Helena, Mont.
Michelle Nijhuis April 13, 1998 From the print edition
A road to ruins?
New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici is trying to push a controversial six-lane highway through Albuquerque's Petroglyph National Monument.
J T Thomas April 13, 1998 From the print edition
All is not quiet on the Rocky Mountain Front
Following Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora's banning of new oil and gas leases on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, Sen. Max Baucus has a bill to ban oil and gas exploration on surrounding forests as well.
J T Thomas April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Military wants to grow its Western empire
The military seeks expansion of its ranges and airspace in the West through more than a dozen proposals.
Stephen Stuebner April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Panel says fish gotta swim
Scientists say half of the Snake River's endangered salmon and steelhead should migrate naturally instead of being barged past dams, if the fish are to survive.
Rocky Barker April 13, 1998 From the print edition

Letters

Don't blame the messenger
K. R. Olsen April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Idaho's racists give us a choice
Mike Medberry April 13, 1998 From the print edition
A postscript from anonymous
Anonymous April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Funds are routinely looted
Craig S. Harrison April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Guns came first
Steven Spearman April 13, 1998 From the print edition
The rural West should grow up
Jeff Burgess April 13, 1998 From the print edition
Suckling refuses to listen
Tony Lunt April 13, 1998 From the print edition
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