The new report, "Water in the West: The Challenge for the
Next Century," is a remarkably far-sighted federal study that
should serve as both a mission statement and a wake-up call about
water management in the arid West.
Magazine
June 22, 1998
The new report, "Water in the West: The Challenge for the Next Century," is a remarkably far-sighted federal study that should serve as both a mission statement and a wake-up call about water management in the arid West.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, rancher Patrick O'Toole explains why he
dissented from the Western Water Policy Review Advisory
Commission's report.
In her own words, Denise Fort, chair of the Western Water
Policy Review Advisory Commission, defends the water
report.
Essays
As the aquifer that lies under Scottsdale is steadily
emptied to provide water for booming development, Arizonans ought
to consider the fate of the pre-Columbian desert Indians, who once
also thrived in the area - until their water ran out.
A Boulder gardener recommends planting native plants
because the non-native plants - especially the dreaded donkeytail
spurge - can take care of planting themselves.
Book Reviews
The nonprofit Roaring Fork Conservancy seeks to protect
the Roaring Fork River Valley in western Colorado.
An unusual, anonymous art exhibit decorates the old White
Buffalo Bar in the decaying town of Cisco, Utah.
Land-management agencies say that the new user fees on
public land are an "unqualified success" supported by the visitors
who are paying them.
The Washington conservation group, the Mountaineers,
criticizes the new user fees in Mount Rainier National Park as too
steep and confusing.
A report by the Predator Project on the Montana State
Trails Program says that agencies give motorized trails the
go-ahead without scrutiny.
Open houses explaining potential wilderness are being held
by 155 conservation groups during the summer.
Open houses and meetings are set to involve the public in
upcoming environmental impact statements for Yellowstone and Grand
Teton national parks.
The Planning Association of Washington is sponsoring a
conference on Western planning July 29-31.
A summer of naturalist-guided programs for kids is
sponsored by the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.
An Anchorage-based nonprofit promotes public awareness on
issues of wildlife protection.
The 8th annual Community Strategic Training Initiative
will be held July 30-Aug. 2 in Portland, Ore., with more than 50
workshops.
Two populations of bull trout have been listed as
threatened in a large area of the Pacific Northwest.
An exhibit at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Ore.,
showcases early medicine in the old West.
Bill Everhart's "Take Down Flag & Feed Horses" offers
a refreshing view of life with the National Park Service,
especially in Yellowstone National Park.
"The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount
Rainier" by Bruce Barcott is reviewed.
Perspective
At a conference for mining activists 60 people share
stories and strategies for battling hardrock mining and the 1872
Mining Law.
News
The Savage Rapids Dam on Oregon's Rogue River remains
standing despite the threatened coho salmon, because local
irrigators are determined to save it.
Arizona's Tohono O'odham Indians are pushing for the
repatriation of a sacred mountain - Baboquivari Peak - although
climbers who want continued access and some environmentalists who
worry about tribal overgrazing are questioning the idea.
GOP promises to end logging subsidies; Olympic National
Park bans jetboats; Forest Service bans climbers' metal bolts in
wilderness; some upsets in Colorado's primary politics.
Career agency biologist Renee Galeano-Popp resigns from
Lincoln National Forest, becoming another in a series of
disillusioned Forest Service employees.
Rancher Wright Dickenson's overgrazed Pine Mountain
allotment in southern Wyoming is at the center of a dispute between
the BLM and the National Wildlife Federation.
Washington conservation groups are seeking to come up with
the money to buy Loomis State Forest and thus save it from
logging.
Louisiana-Pacific is fined $37 million for breaking
environmental laws at its Olathe, Colo., waferboard plant, and also
for selling a product that did not meet the company's
claim.
The Forest Service wants to log about 3,000 acres of a
spruce and fir blowdown in Colorado's Routt National Forest, but
some environmental groups are opposing the regional forester's
decision.
Heard Around the West
"Green glow" fades in Northwest; Las Vegas street names
and theme parks; containing cows in Mont. and Ore.; "Ranger Rick's"
cartoon animals dislike mining; reckless speedboats on Lake Mead;
homeless man wants backpack returned; heron shot in
Tucson.
Dear Friends
Bill McDonald wins MacArthur grant; lively times in Salt
Lake City, and the HCN board meeting there; Richard Ingebretsen;
wilderness rally in Grand Junction.
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