The uncertain truce set up by Pres. Clinton's 1993
Northwest Forest Plan is threatened by dissatisfaction as
environmentalists, loggers and scientists still fight over
remaining old growth and cannot agree how best to manage the
forests.
Magazine
November 23, 1998
The uncertain truce set up by Pres. Clinton's 1993 Northwest Forest Plan is threatened by dissatisfaction as environmentalists, loggers and scientists still fight over remaining old growth and cannot agree how best to manage the forests.
Feature
Sidebar
The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
is more ambitious than the Northwest Forest Plan and seems to be
facing even more problems.
Essays
Speculations that 9,300-year-old human remains found near
Kennewick, Wash., have "European features" lead to tongue-in-cheek
ruminations over writer's new status as descendant of "indigenous"
people.
Perspective
The Republican Revolution may be stalled in the rest of
the country, but the Rocky Mountain West remains a stronghold for
GOP hard-liners.
Heard Around the West
Two-headed deer in Montana; Jimsonweed trouble in Utah;
Ursus Mark VII bear-proof suit; porcupine poetic justice;
radioactive insects at Hanford; dinosaurs at Grand
Staircase.
Dear Friends
First snow; Michael Berman's photo exhibition; fall
visitors; HCN honored by Wirth Chair in Denver; Marlene Zanetell
and "junkyard dogs."
News
Environmental groups and the U.S. government offer a
$25,000 reward for the arrest of whoever has been killing the
Mexican wolves recently reintroduced in Arizona and New
Mexico.
Biologists in the Western United States and Canada are
working on ways to redesign highways - adding overpasses and
underpasses to reduce the number of animals killed while crossing
roads.
Forest Service finds bomb in Driggs, Idaho; Vail ski
resort denies arson will harm skiing; BuRec tightens security at
Western dams; Elko County, Nev., crews bulldoze a USFS road along
the Jarbidge River.
In Montana, Initiative 137 banning new cyanide heap-leach
gold mines wins despite a last-minute campaign blitz by the mining
industry.
In Arizona, an open space-saving scheme called "Growing
Smarter" wins despite environmental opposition.
In Colorado, ballot initiatives regulating hog farms won,
and water developer Gary Boyce's San Luis Valley initiatives
lost.
In Oregon, voters defeated a ban on clear-cutting forests,
but agreed to allow the state to spend some lottery funds on parks
and habitat protection.
California voters banned leghold traps, while Utah voted
to prohibit citizens' initiatives that would restrict hunting or
trapping unless they get a two-thirds vote of approval.
WY: Republicans win; MT: Developers pay; NV: Sen. Reid, D,
re-elected; WA moves to left; ID: Republicans rule; NM: Heather
Wilson wins; CO: Mark Udall only Democrat to win; OR: Gov.
Kitzhaber re-elected; AZ: Republicans win; UT: Gay Democrat
wins.
Although their winning essays showed they value forests
for vastly different reasons, the eight winners of Siuslaw National
Forest Supervisor Jim Furnish's contest on "Why I Value the
Siuslaw" enjoyed their three-day tour of the area.
Exotic lake trout are ravaging the threatened native
Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone National Park.
Cyprus-Amax's plan to open a controversial molybdenum mine
near Crested Butte, Colo., has been stalled by a water court
judge's postponement of a trial over whether the mining company can
build a reservoir.
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