Using legal and financial savvy and the latest computer
technology, Indian tribes across the West are taking control of
tribal lands that have been in the hands of the federal government
and, often, non-Indian farmers for the last century.
Magazine
August 3, 1998
Using legal and financial savvy and the latest computer technology, Indian tribes across the West are taking control of tribal lands that have been in the hands of the federal government and, often, non-Indian farmers for the last century.
Feature
Sidebar
Browning, Mont., banker Elouise Cobell uncovers a huge
financial mess involving billions of dollars of tribal money
somehow misplaced by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Editor's Note
Today, Indian country is in the midst of a 1990s-style revolution that is likely to have a lasting impact.
Book Reviews
In northern New Mexico, residents battle Air Force plans
for a new bombing range.
Artist Gregg Schlanger's temporary exhibit at Redfish
Lake, Idaho - "Sockeye Waters, Sockeye Dreams" - draws attention to
the plight of native salmon.
The Alberton Community Coalition for Environmental Health
wants to educate people about the hazardous waste carried by
railroads.
Veterans of the 1930s' Civilian Conservation Corps hold
reunions this summer.
Earthlaw, a public interest law firm in Denver, works for
the environment with a sense of humor and even writes literate
press releases.
The Mono Lake Committee celebrates its 20th anniversary
over Labor Day, Sept. 4-7.
A 51-page report gives landowners ideas about protecting
the natural value of their land; published by the Greater
Yellowstone Coalition.
Former top water warrior for the State of Colorado, Jim
Lochhead, will talk to the Mesa County Water Association on the
Colorado River.
The Wilderness Society has produced an updated report,
"The Wilderness Act Handbook," on wilderness legislation.
"Voices from a Sacred Place: In Defense of Petroglyph
National Monument," a book edited by Verne Huser, is reviewed,
including excerpts.
Nevada Barr's mystery, "Blind Descent," set in New
Mexico's Lechuguilla Cave, is reviewed.
Heard Around the West
Cars and lightning; dogs, coyotes kill more Mont.
livestock than wolves do; farmers' demolition derby in Lind, Wash.;
driver bangs up 7 cars in parking; bison bump tourists in
Yellowstone; bear trouble in Vail, Colo.; Envirocare engineer is a
fraud.
Dear Friends
Radio High Country News; new director of marketing Steve
Mandell; "Adirondack Explorer"; visitors, volunteers.
News
A federal judge rules against Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber's
plan to save coastal coho salmon through a state tax on timber that
included a clause terminating the tax if a federal endangered
listing were approved.
Utah Wilderness Coalition volunteers, doing a re-inventory
of BLM lands left out of a previous wilderness proposal, come up
with 3 million more acres, making a total of 8.5 million acres that
activists say should be protected as wilderness.
Inholdings making up 12 percent of Calif.'s Mojave Nat'l
Preserve for sale; 7 of 11 re-introduced Mexican wolves still alive
in Southwest; USFWS proposes listing Canada lynx as "threatened";
USFS plans to log Oregon's watershed; L-P still owes
money.
Northern New Mexico's Valles Caldera is for sale, and many
think the world's largest extinct volcano ought to become the
nation's next national park.
Congress is slow to act on the chance to purchase and
protect New Mexico's Valles Caldera - also known as the Baca
Ranch.
A new range war erupts near Montana's Bozeman Pass, where
new homeowners object to rancher Warren McMillan's cattle wandering
the open range.
The Ute Indian Tribe wants tribal members charged with
misdemeanors in Roosevelt, Utah, to be turned over to the tribe for
prosecution.
Even as Washington state officials complain about the slow
pace of cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the Department
of Energy wants to restart nuclear weapons production
there.
As Tucson, Ariz., grows and sprawls, Pima County creates a
long-range plan to protect the Sonoran Desert from being
overrun.
A judge shoots down a water project that would have
diverted water from the Gunnison River Basin on Colorado's Western
Slope over to Denver's thirsty suburbs.
Old-growth ponderosa pine trees in the Lake Tahoe Basin -
both green and standing dead trees - will be protected from logging
under a new regulation.
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