Wildlife biologists, environmentalists and Western
politicians are engaged in a fierce debate over whether two decades
of protection have so restored Yellowstone's grizzly population
that the animal ought to be removed from the endangered species
list.
Magazine
November 9, 1998
Wildlife biologists, environmentalists and Western politicians are engaged in a fierce debate over whether two decades of protection have so restored Yellowstone's grizzly population that the animal ought to be removed from the endangered species list.
Feature
Sidebar
Many facts about grizzly bears, including their size,
weight, habitat, attacks on humans, eating habits, hibernation,
reproduction, etc.
A once-vigorous effort to reintroduce grizzly bears to the
Selway-Bitterroot County on the Idaho/Montana border has hit some
unexpected road blocks and detours.
Uncommon Westerners
A reader profile of 100-year-old Hazel Wolf, a lifelong
activist and the star of the Great Old Broads for Wilderness
conference.
Essays
Laramie, Wyoming, wrestles with the hate in its midst when a gay student is beaten to death.
Book Reviews
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has until next June to
decide whether to list the elusive Canada lynx as threatened or
endangered.
The book, "Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America,"
is a beautiful and thought-provoking collection of essays and
photographs.
The Emerald People's Utility District near Eugene, Ore.,
plans to provide "green power" to its customers, encouraging energy
production that doesn't harm air quality or salmon.
University of Wisconsin sociologist Bill Freudenburg says
that, contrary to popular belief, employment has actually increased
since environmental regulations came in.
The book, "Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge"
by Joel Simon, explores the threats to Mexico's
environment.
A conference, "Big Sky or Big Sprawl? Montana at the
Crossroads: Montana's First Statewide Summit on Growth," takes
place Nov. 20-21 in Helena.
A conference at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo.,
looks at the collision between rural society and academia, Nov.
13-14.
A workshop, "From Watersheds to Watertaps," examines the
new Safe Drinking Water Act in Denver, Colo., Jan. 9.
The Renewable Energy Policy Project's August "Research
Report" suggests a way to boost the small market for water heaters
powered by the sun.
The American Fisheries Society's North Pacific-Internation
Chapter holds a workshop on bull trout Nov. 16-17 in Nelson,
British Columbia.
Todd Wilkinson's book, "Science Under Siege: The
Politicians' War on Nature and Truth," chronicles the struggle of
government agency biologists to stand up for environmental and
wildlife protection.
"Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks
and the Hard Lessons Learned" by Scott McMillion combines
horrifying accounts with thoughtful discussion.
Perspective
After weeks of bluster and deal-making, Republicans
quietly dropped 30 or so anti-environmental riders to the
appropriations bill.
Heard Around the West
Death Valley Health Center; dogs' power bones; house paint
in South Gate, CA; volcano/sewage buildup in Yellowstone; tracking
privies of Lewis & Clark; poacher gives self away; "Wash. biol.
serv."; Colo. candidate Jack Woehr; no fall color in
Northeast.
Dear Friends
HCN adopts a highway; dead bears next door and other odds
and ends; late fall visitors.
News
At Nevada's Lake Mead, the busiest national recreation
area in the country, park rangers try to crack down on the
"reckless clueless" misbehavior, often fueled by alcohol and drugs,
that has already killed 36 visitors this year.
Coeur d'Alene Tribe gets to retain control of one-third of
its namesake lake; San Juan, County, Wash., bans jet skis; Atlas
Minerals Corp. files for bankruptcy; Oregon farmers will get
subsidies for planting trees along waterways.
The controversial forest management plan put together by
the Quincy Library Group in California is signed into law without
much fanfare, as members of the consensus group brace for the next
round of fighting over the forest.
Utah hunting guide Samuel Sickels is nailed for poaching
cougars, with the help of videotapes and photographs taken by his
clients.
Albuquerque residents are shocked when a federal judge
rules that the Sandia Pueblo owns much of the western face of the
Sandia Mountains at the very edge of the city.
Although many of the worst anti-environmental riders were
struck from the budget bill, the 105th Congress did not leave
environmentalists with much to be happy about.
Tiny, isolated Stehekin, Wash., a village surrounded by
parks and wilderness and reachable only by ferry, has been
discovered by a developer who wants to build vacation homes and
condominiums.
Idaho rancher Bob Piva says he will subdivide and sell his
160 acres in the Stanley Basin, unless the Forest Service - which
has been trying to protect the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
from development - meets his asking price.
The Earth Liberation Front claims responsibility for fires
that damaged ski facilities at Vail, Colo., and though many in the
community have rallied support, others blame Vail for its ruthless
development and planned expansion into possible lynx
habitat.
The Tie Camp timber sale in Wyoming's Medicine Bow Nat'l
Forest has been halted because the area may be potential habitat
for the rare Canada lynx.
A clean-air activist who helped end bluegrass-field
burning near Spokane, Wash., is now tackling the practice of
wheat-stubble burning on eastern Washington's farmlands.
Opinion
The headlines about the recent arson in Vail, Colo., fail
to consider the resort's history of legal but still reprehensible
activities - especially its expansion into old-growth and possible
lynx habitat.
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