Democrat Harry Reid brings a reputation for integrity, a
record of environmentalism, and the toughness he kept from his
hardscrabble Western upbringing into a challenging race for a third
term as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.
Magazine
September 28, 1998
Democrat Harry Reid brings a reputation for integrity, a record of environmentalism, and the toughness he kept from his hardscrabble Western upbringing into a challenging race for a third term as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.
Feature
Sidebar
Nevada is the fastest-growing state and its politics
reflect a lively, complex reality.
Statistics of growth in Nevada
Essays
In a tongue-in-cheek essay, the writer talks to God and
passes on the divine opinion concerning Idaho Rep. Helen
Chenoweth.
Book Reviews
North Dakota's "Energy Trail" gives tourists a chance to
visit coal mines and power plants.
A draft plan for Glacier National Park would ban jet skis
and air tours while protecting historic lodges and improving roads
and visitor services.
A rule buried in the BLM's mining regulations directs the
secretary of the Interior to avoid "undue degradation" of public
lands by mining, and the Mineral Policy Center wants to see it
revised and made tougher.
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado seeks people who want to
help plant gardens and mend trails on Colorado public
lands.
A coalition wants to link the Hart Mountain National
Antelope Refuge in Oregon with the Sheldon National Refuge in
Nevada so the pronghorn antelope can roam.
Daniel Dancer's photographs in the "Zero Circles Project"
seek to inspire viewers to save the West's great forests from
logging.
David Petersen's "Elkheart: A Personal Tribute to Wapiti
and Their World" is reviewed and excerpted.
A new magazine called "ColorLines" takes a harsh look at
the "prison-industrial complex."
The Family Farm Alliance defends irrigation in its report,
"Western Irrigation Economic Benefits Review."
A free quarterly called "Wana Chinook Tymoo" lives up to
its name's meaning, "salmon stories," by helping Northwestern
Indians work to save salmon.
Excerpt from David Petersen's book, "Elkheart: A Personal
Tribute to Wapiti and Their World."
The Wildlands Project holds a conference Oct. 8-11 in
Estes Park, Colo.
A conference discussing regulatory options to corporate
hog farms in Colorado is scheduled for Oct. 20.
A conference for trail managers, volunteers and
professionals will be held Oct. 8-11 in Grand Junction,
Colo.
Perspective
The Land and Water Conservation Fund is tied up in
politics and milked to balance the budget, rather than spent to
purchase public lands as it was intended to do.
News
Critics object to Park Service plans to spend user fees on
a fancy new welcome center in Grand Teton National Park, rather
than on improving existing facilities.
Critics blast Yellowstone's draft management plan for
bison, which would quarantine, vaccinate and reduce the size of the
herd to deal with the threat of brucellosis.
Montana's Initiative I-137 would ban new open-pit
heap-leach gold and silver mines and prevent the expansion of
existing ones.
Utah may trade trust lands in Grand Staircase-Escalante;
Mobil Corp. agrees to pay tribes royalties; Portola, Calif., gets
$9 million from fish poisoning; salvage logging starts on damaged
trees in Routt Nat'l Forest; lynx and wolverine return to
Colo.
Growing Tucson suburbs invade land on the edgoe of
Arizona's Saguaro National Park West, when federal funds for a
promised buyout of the land fail to materialize.
In Washington, the prospect of the first hunt of gray
whales by the Makah Indians in 70 years has environmentalists
worried and tribe enthusiastic.
Utah Republican Rep. Merrill Cook loses environmental
support to his challenger, Lily Eskelson; in Idaho, League of
Conservation Voters puts up money to defeat Rep. Helen Chenoweth;
Ariz.'s "Growing Smarter" initiative apparently not what it seems
to be.
Heard Around the West
Nevada's "shoe tree"; Yellowstone geysers wake up;
"mountain loin" roams Bozeman; train whistle irks new Winter Park,
Colo., residents; battle of bathrooms, continued; Taos, N.M., art
association raffles off land.
Dear Friends
Hunting season; intern Stanley Yung; corrections and
emendations.
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