In Tucson, Ariz., where a dozen acres are cleared for
development each day, environmentalists and concerned locals try to
find ways to rein in runaway growth, and to save the desert and its
remaining endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owls.
Magazine
January 18, 1999
In Tucson, Ariz., where a dozen acres are cleared for development each day, environmentalists and concerned locals try to find ways to rein in runaway growth, and to save the desert and its remaining endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owls.
Feature
Sidebar
Real estate broker Bill Arnold says environmentalists are
not helping Tucson.
Resident Dee Dee Arnaud remembers the Tucson of her
childhood and mourns the changes she has found on her
return.
Tucscon residents Doug and Christina McVie describe the
developers' assault on desert.
Environmental activist Gayle Hartmann talks about the long
struggle to keep development under control.
Statistics show the frightening pace of growth in the
Tucson area.
Planner David Taylor says the issue of sprawl is complex
and has deep roots.
Environmentalist-turned-zoning-consultant Ron Asta
describes his journey through Tucson's land-use politics.
Essays
Montana's Bitterroot Valley in the midst of a feverish
development boom that has its roots in growth that began over a
century ago, when incoming whites pushed the Salish people out of
the valley and began to build.
A woman ponders the addiction to gambling which keeps her
- and many others who can't afford it - going back to Nevada's slot
machines, over and over.
A Montana teacher worries about the dark impulses that
lead her schoolkids to deface a poster of a wolf, with an ink-drawn
bullet through its forehead.
Book Reviews
The documentary film "Varmints," produced by Doug
Hawes-Davis, stresses the controversy surrounding prairie dogs and
uncovers truths that viewers might prefer to be fiction.
The BLM is sponsoring a two-day course on the biology and
ecology of "biological soil crust," formerly known as "cryptogamic
soil."
A proposal to close 400 miles of forest roads and 200
miles of trails to motorized vehicles on Idaho's Targhee National
Forest has raised the ire of all-terrain vehicle
advocates.
"Planning Trails with Wildlife in Mind: A Handbook for
Trail Planners," a publication from Colorado State Parks, offers
suggestions on how to keep hiking trails from interfering with
wildlife.
Volunteers are needed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
from trail crew workers to campground hosts.
Headwaters' 8th Annual Western Forest Activists Conference
will be held in Ashland, Ore., Feb. 5-7.
A Web site, www.anpa.ualr.edu, developed by the Native
American Writers Archival Project, includes 10,000" entries of
Native American literature.
The application deadline for jobs on the Gila National
Forest in southwestern New Mexico is Jan. 29.
A second symposium on federal land policy is offered by
the Andrus Center for Public Policy, in Boise, Idaho, on March
24.
Heard Around the West
"Deer Avengers" video game hunts hunters; "New Coke"
marketer advises Vail ski executives; skiing and global warming;
"ski rage" flares between boarders and skiers; "brain leaks" on
slopes; strange but true stories from Denver's Westword; Kennewick
Man.
Dear Friends
Tony Davis and Mo Udall; HCN's a real Western newspaper;
Gary Vinyard's death a great loss; water for life; circulation is
up; Salida fire; winter interns Rebecca Clarren and Juniper
Davis.
News
Morris K. Udall, former Arizona congressman who recently
died, is remembered as a dedicated statesman who understood
compromise.
Even though the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service admits there is little risk of cattle catching brucellosis
from calves, yearlings and bulls, Montana's Dept. of Livestock is
hazing all stray bison back into Yellowstone.
Two Summitville managers, but no higher-ups, are fired for
Colorado gold mine disaster; an 8,000-acre wildlife corridor in
Montana's Paradise Valley is protected; 33 Nevada wild horses found
shot; New Mexico's Baca Ranch owners pull out of purchase
deal.
At public hearings on BLM's draft management plan for
Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante Nat'l Monument, the agency has
introduced new "town meeting" format which limits comments to
written rather than spoken - a change activists deem a blow to
democracy.
The New Mexico Historic Preservation Alliance has declared
the night sky one of the 11 most endangered places in the state,
and Chaco Culture National Historic Park is leading the way in
changing its lighting habits to prevent light pollution.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board says that snowmakers
at the Keystone Ski Area pulled more than their share of water from
the Snake River to try to make up for a dry early season.
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