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.
Magazine
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
Sidebar
Proposed military expansions in various Western
states.
Essays
The complicated legal saga of wolf reintroduction in
Yellowstone offers a cautionary tale for activists and their
lawyers.
A Wyoming man celebrates the difficulty of living in his
wild, lonely, poor, unsophisticated state - the "last good place
left."
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.
Book Reviews
The Wolf Education Research Center in Boise, Idaho, will
train dogs to sniff out the scat of endangered species.
The Glacier Institute teaches students of all ages about
Glacier National Park.
The Mono County Mining Committee is organizing against a
proposed open-pit gold mine near Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
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.
The video "Rules of the Snow" offers safety tips for
Western snowmobilers.
The Missoula, Mont., group, Women's Voices for the Earth,
suggests gold jewelry be recycled instead of new gold being
mined.
The Natural Resources Law Center at the University of
Colorado holds its 19th annual summer conference June
8-10.
The updated California Water Map explains the state's
complex network of water projects.
The Western Ancient Forest Campaign has a new office in
California's Sierra Nevada foothills.
Hells Canyon Preservation Council and Northwest Ecosystem
Alliance sponsor a wooden/dorie benefit float trip down the Snake
River, June 1.
The National Audubon Society holds its biennial convention
July 6-11 in Estes Park, Colo.
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.
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.
Dear Friends
Questions and visitors; an evening with Stewart Udall; HCN
in Awake!
News
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.
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.
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.
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.
New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici is trying to push a
controversial six-lane highway through Albuquerque's Petroglyph
National Monument.
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.
The military seeks expansion of its ranges and airspace in
the West through more than a dozen proposals.
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.
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