Environmentalists, farmers and state and federal agencies
try to find some kind of consensus even as each reaches for a share
of the overused Platte River as it flows from Colorado, through
Wyoming and across Nebraska.
Magazine
February 1, 1999
Environmentalists, farmers and state and federal agencies try to find some kind of consensus even as each reaches for a share of the overused Platte River as it flows from Colorado, through Wyoming and across Nebraska.
Feature
Editor's Note
Despite the Endangered Species Act, the uses of water
continue to drain life from native fish; on the Platte River, a new
era brings many users to the table to negotiate and
compromise.
Book Reviews
A new management plan would increase the size of Oregon
Caves National Monument by seven times, from 480 acres to 3,400
acres.
Project opponents, including the state of Nevada, object
to the Department of Energy's assessment that high-level nuclear
waste can soon be stored at Yucca Mountain.
The "Wildlife Manager's Field Guide to the Farm Bill" is
designed to help subsidize farmers and ranchers in conservation
projects.
A Klamath Falls company wants to build a ski resort on
Pelican Butte in Oregon's Winema National Forest.
A panel of scientists says that threatened chinook salmon
would be better off if they didn't have to be barged around four
Snake River dams on their way upriver to spawn.
Beleaguered by budget cuts, the Park Service is trying to
use increased user fees to create volunteer programs like the
Public Lands Corps, to help with trail building and other
maintenance projects.
A census conducted by the National Land Trust Alliance
tells the number of land trusts that serve the Rocky Mountain
states. A 1998 copy is available from its Washington, D.C.,
office.
The annual conference of the Environmental and Outdoor
Education Council of Alberta, Canada, will be held April 22-24 at
Waterton Lakes National Park just north of Montana's Glacier
National Park.
The Sierra Club will award four-year college scholarships
to 10 students in the Sierra Nevada region.
An opportunity for artists to stay at the historic Aspen
Guard Station in the San Juan National Forest in Colorado is
offered in exchange for producing art.
"Where the Rivers Flow: Sharing Watersheds and Boundaries"
is the theme of the Stegner Center Symposium April 16-17 in Salt
Lake City, Utah.
The Society for Ecological Restoration will meet next
September in San Francisco to talk about moving stewardship of the
land back to the community.
Heard Around the West
Small towns; body piercing in Jackson, Wyo.; Y2K vs. KY
jelly; Internet letter grants vacation; "bank error" leads to jail;
hunters arrested for bear slaughter; good news in Olympic scandal;
Las Vegas cop in strip joints; gambling treadmills; skunk
odor.
Dear Friends
"Colorado Central" magazine's fifth birthday; Denzel
Ferguson died; Y2K in Paonia, Colo.; how to combat junk
mail.
News
Southern Plains Land Trust activist Susan Miller raises
the ire of local ranchers over a plan to create a refuge in rural
Baca County, Colo., for prairie dogs displaced by the state's
suburban sprawl.
The elusive radical Earth Liberation Front, which claimed
responsibility for October's arson in Vail, Colo., says it is also
behind the December fire that destroyed U.S. Forest Industries'
corporate headquarters in Medford, Ore.
Three men arrested for killing wild horses in Nevada;
Utah's planned Legacy Parkway butts heads with the EPA; Colorado's
Catamount ski area resort is dead at last.
Environmentalists oppose South Dakota Gov. William
Janklow's plan to let the Gilt Edge mine expand its open pit in
order to make enough money to pay for much-needed reclamation
elsewhere on the gold mine.
On Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,
a conservation deal will move cattle out of the canyons most
popular with hikers and boats, especially along the Escalante
River.
FMC Corp.'s phosphorous plant near Pocatello, Idaho, is
fined $11.8 million for environmental violations that include a
fire that sent poisonous gas wafting onto Shoshone-Bannock tribal
land.
Idaho hunting guides worry that reintroduced wolves will
kill too many elk and put outfitters like themselves out of
business.
Animal-rights activists in California clash with wildlife
managers, who fear that unless a law banning leghold traps is
overturned, growing numbers of red fox will wipe out entire
populations of ground-nesting birds.
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