Barry Lopez says that nature writing is about much more than nature – it is about community, morality, character and hope as well.
Magazine
September 14, 1998
In the leading article of this essay issue, a writer says that nature writing is about much more than nature - it is about community, morality, character and hope as well.
Feature
Essays
A Forest Service ranger struggles to balance his
responsibilities to the land, the wildlife, and the ranchers whose
cattle graze on public land.
A writer is torn between his love and loyalty for two very
different landscapes - the East Coast's Cape Cod and the mountains
of Colorado.
The writer goes to central Idaho to visit the heart of the
longest-standing Earth First! demonstration, protesting the
Cove-Mallard timber sale.
Book Reviews
The book, "Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway
Communities," by Jim Howe, Ed McMahon and Luther Propst is
reviewed.
The National Park Service is sponsoring the 10th
anniversary resource stewardship symposium on Oct. 1-3 at New
Mexico's El Malpais National Monument.
Lolo National Forest wants to ban snowmobiles on 140,000
roadless acres of the Bitterroot Crest on the Idaho-Montana
border.
The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute celebrates its
namesake's 100th birthday with "Wilderness Horizons: An
Interdisciplinary Conference," Sept. 24-26.
The annual meeting of the Oregon Natural Desert
Association takes place Sept. 26-27 near Fossil, Ore.
Great Old Broads' ninth Wilderness Conference will take
place Oct. 10-11 in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in
Utah.
The George Wright Society is calling for papers for its
10th confereence next spring, with topics related to research,
resource management and education in protected areas.
The first annual Conference on Environmental Protection
and Growth Management in the West will include speaker Ian L.
McHarg, author of "Design With Nature," Oct. 23-24 at the
University of Denver.
The Northwest chapter of the Society for Ecological
Restoration's conference will focus on broad-based salmon recovery
efforts, Oft. 28-30, in Tacoma, Wash.
Colorado Preservation, Inc., has published its Most
Endangered Places List, with Colorado's gaming towns in number one
position.
In rural Boulder, Colo., a group known as PUMA protects
the rural qualities of the Magnolia area by publicizing its efforts
on the World Wide Web.
The Sonoran Institute has launched a Web site to allow
diverse communities from across the U.S. to share their experiences
in managing growth.
Congress has commissioned a two-year investigation to find
out how the Environmental Protection Agency can be more
effective.
An excerpt from Charles Bowden's book, "Juarez: The
Laboratory of Our Future," argues that the terrible poverty, crime
and injustice in the border city of Juarez is a vision we cannot
ignore.
Heard Around the West
Bart the Buffalo runs wild in Tucson; too many prisons;
bicyclist bumped by bruin in Glacier; condors visit Colorado; "toad
patrol" rescues toads on highways.
Dear Friends
Visitors; photographer Chris Montgomery; readers' survey
response.
News
The BLM is in the middle of a mess it created when it sold
oil and gas rights in New Mexico's Bisti/De-Na-Zin wilderness
before it became a wilderness.
Elko County, Nev., commissioners take on the Forest
Service over repairing and re-opening a road by the Jarbidge River,
which the agency closed to protect the Jarbidge bull
trout.
Working on the bill that would protect the old-growth
redwood Headwaters grove, the California Legislature adds tougher
environmental standards for the land surrounding the trees, also
owned by Pacific Lumber.
Peregrine falcon goes off Endangered Species list; other
listed species now extinct; Audubon Society appeals judge's
decision to remove wolves in Idaho; Calif. pays $9 million for
poisoning Lake Davis; Kelsey Begaye runs for Navajo Nation's
president.
Rancher Jerry Townsend, concerned about growth elsewhere
in Montana, puts almost all of his 2,500-acre ranch into a
conservation easement, with the help of the Montana Land
Reliance.
Basin Resources, a coal-mining company, is ordered to pay
$160,000 to a couple who claim the mine damaged their second
home.
Tribal elder Laverne Brown donates seven acres to Wind
River Indian Reservation to be used for a community
garden.
Environmentalists say that a land exchange that would give
500 acres of Forest Service land to Crested Butte Mountain Resort
in exchange for inholdings and other land is skewed in favor of the
ski resort.
Environmentalists and nearby Indian tribes blame McNary
Dam's complicated salmon collection and barging procedure for the
recent death of 145,000 young salmon.
Democrat John Vinich will run against Wyoming Gov. Jim
Geringer; Utah hunters create an initiative, Proposition Five, to
prevent future anti-hunting laws; in Oregon, Measure 64 would ban
clear-cutting on both public and private land.
Dakota Catalyst Products shuts its Williston, N.D., metals
recycling plant, leaving behind an environmental mess that is just
now becoming public.
Alaska Republican Don Young puts pressure on Southwest
Regional Forester Eleanor Towns to reveal which of her staffers may
have ties to environmental groups.
The pallid sturgeon, a prehistoric fish, is teetering on
the brink of extinction, with only 250 still living in the Upper
Missouri River.
Letters
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