The deaths of two hikers in Utah raise legal and ethical
questions about risk and responsibility.
Magazine
August 22, 1994
The deaths of two hikers in Utah raise legal and ethical questions about risk and responsibility.
Feature
Essays
Deciding how to handle a forest fire is
difficult.
The Atomic Energy Commission deliberately lied about
radiation dangers to miners and other Westerners.
Book Reviews
Nevada Wildlife Viewing Guide is published.
Conservation groups propose designation of 48 new
wilderness areas in Colorado.
The new group Rio Grande Restoration publishes quarterly
newsletter.
Interior Department proposes new rules for
highway-building on public lands.
U.S. Army proposes new plan to drop 1-ton missiles in
Utah's San Juan County.
The East End Neighborhood Association seeks to buy land
sacred to tribes in order to protect it from development.
Conference on "who governs the public lands"
planned.
Jane Anne Morris writes a handbook for activists called
Not In My Back Yard.
Dear Friends
Energy award, marriages and visits, corrections, Charles
Wilkinson
News
West suffers through sixth year of drought.
Reporter Kathie Durbin resigns from the
Oregonian.
Oregon okays bidding agains ranchers for leases on
state-owned land.
To protect spawning salmon, cattle are removed from four
Oregon allotments.
Bruce Babbitt takes environmentalists' and ranchers'
criticism in stride.
The Iowa Supreme Court rules that development can be
halted when it threatens an ancient Native American burial
mound.
As a record low number of Snake River salmon return to
spawn this summer, some critics decry barging as a
solution.
Grizzly maulings in Yellowstone tend to occur when people
surprise bears.
Ex-rancher Jon Roush is new president of The Wilderness
Society.
EPA agrees to let Idaho environmental authorities clean up
tailings in Triumph.
Rancher Marcus Rudnick loses libel lawsuit about criticism
of his grazing practices.
River otters attack four swimmers in two separate
incidents.
Historic, photogenic Moulton Barn may be preserved by the
National Park Service.
Opinion
Bruce Babbitt's tactics are forcing environmentalists and
ranchers to change.
Letters
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