An introduction to HCN's special issue says that the old
extractive West is on its deathbed.
Magazine
April 27, 1998
An HCN special issue says that the old extractive West is on its deathbed.
Feature
Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck tries to reform and
revive a troubled agency with a long history of being driven by the
timber industry.
The small timber town of Detroit, Ore., turns its back on
its logging history to protect its watershed from
clear-cutting.
Rifle, Colo., offers an example of how Western communities
formerly dependent on extractive industries must find a way to
adapt to changing socio-economics as the old industries
decline.
Sidebar
Now retired Forest Supervisor Tom Kovalicky, who tried to
restrain the logging on his Nez Perce National Forest, says Mike
Dombeck has to break the logging cycle in the agency.
Rifle, Colo., rancher Jim Snyder has seen statistics
become visible on his own land as the area grows and the economy
changes.
Andy Stahl of Forest Service Employees for Environmental
Ethics discusses the problems that plague the agency.
Forest Service staffer Joyce Whitney describes the
problems in the agency that have led her to leave for a post with
the BLM.
The General Accounting Office once again takes the Forest
Service to task for inefficiency and waste.
Essays
The trend toward private ownership of wildlife -
especially game ranching of elk - has dire consequences for both
wild animals and the soul of the nation that once protected their
wild status.
Perspective
The American Recreation Coalition, which lobbies for
motorized recreation, has become a potent force in the nation's
capital as outdoor recreation becomes the dominant natural resource
industry, especially in the West.
Heard Around the West
Bears move into Mammoth Lakes, Calif.; cows gorge to death
in Wash.; beef cows maligned in Idaho; fighting hog farms in Colo.;
hogs stink; PETA tries to save Glacier's fish; April fool stuff;
Aspen's woes.
Dear Friends
Grand Forks Herald wins Pulitzer; Southwest Center edits
HCN story; Writers on the Range; visitors; adieu to San Juan
Almanac.
News
A planned jetboat race up and down a 50-mile stretch of
the Yellowstone River in Montana is cancelled following a flurry of
criticism.
A plan by the Animal Damage Control Agency (recently
renamed Wildlife Services) would allow coyotes to be shot from
helicopters, even if the animals are not bothering
livestock.
SUWA's new slogan: "Protect Wild Utah"; Ray and Ron Pene
may not mine Westwater Canyon; Wayne Hage sues federal gov't.;
Louisiana-Pacific's Dana Dulohery gets five months' jail; Wyo.'s
South Pass listed by World Monument Fund as endangered.
Following the state's electrical deregulation bill,
Montana Power Co. decides to sell its 13 dams, leading to fierce
debate over the fate of rivers, water rights and fish.
The Army abandons Red Butte Reservoir in Utah, and leaves
no one responsible for the dam, its reservoir and the June sucker
fish that live in the water.
Some mills in Oregon stay busy even as fewer trees are cut
in the U.S. by milling imported logs.
Because of a mapping error, the Boise National Forest
allows logging in the Snowbank Roadless Area near Cascade,
Idaho.
A judge upholds the right of the National Park Service to
ask rock climbers to stay off Wyoming's Devils Tower during June,
when Native Americans hold religious ceremonies.
In Utah, a court rules that state law does not protect
Anasazi graves, dismissing charges against a Blanding couple who
dug up an Indian burial site while pot hunting.
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, in an attempt to protect
salmon while keeping them off the endangered list, runs into
problems when the National Marine Fisheries Service seeks stricter
standards.
The 21st International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula,
Mont., tries to showcase wildlife films that are based on good
science and do not distort or exploit wildlife.
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