Magazine
Saving the Platte

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

Saving the Platte
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.
Ray Ring Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition

Editor's Note

From river to river
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.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Oregon Caves park to grow
A new management plan would increase the size of Oregon Caves National Monument by seven times, from 480 acres to 3,400 acres.
Dustin Solberg Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Where will the waste wind up?
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.
Juniper Davis Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Conservation can pay
The "Wildlife Manager's Field Guide to the Farm Bill" is designed to help subsidize farmers and ranchers in conservation projects.
Mark Matthews Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Ski the Butte?
A Klamath Falls company wants to build a ski resort on Pelican Butte in Oregon's Winema National Forest.
Dustin Solberg Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Damning report on dams
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.
Rebecca Clarren Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Fees feed volunteers
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.
Michelle Nijhuis Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
National Land Trust Census
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.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Connecting Ecosystems - Connecting Peoples
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.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
College scholarships
The Sierra Club will award four-year college scholarships to 10 students in the Sierra Nevada region.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
San Juan National Forest Artist in Residence
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.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Stegner Center Symposium
"Where the Rivers Flow: Sharing Watersheds and Boundaries" is the theme of the Stegner Center Symposium April 16-17 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Society for Ecology Restoration
The Society for Ecological Restoration will meet next September in San Francisco to talk about moving stewardship of the land back to the community.
Staff Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

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.
Betsy Marston Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
"Colorado Central" magazine's fifth birthday; Denzel Ferguson died; Y2K in Paonia, Colo.; how to combat junk mail.
Ed Marston Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition

News

Ranchers don't want refugee prairie dogs
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.
Patricia Walsh Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
ELF strikes again
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.
Michelle Nijhuis Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
The Wayward West
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.
Dustin Solberg Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
South Dakota tells a mine to stay put
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.
Eric Whitney Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Fun-hogs to replace cows in a Utah monument
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.
Lisa Church Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Plant pays hefty fine for polluting the air
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.
Stephen Stuebner Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Wolves worry outfitters
Idaho hunting guides worry that reintroduced wolves will kill too many elk and put outfitters like themselves out of business.
Steve Stuebner Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
To trap or not?
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.
Dustin Solberg Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition

Letters

Outfitters do a lot for Grand Canyon
Tom Robinson And Christa Sadler Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Don't believe that grizzlies are doing just fine
Lee Mercer Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
Stereotyping hunters is easy
Mike Beagle Feb. 1, 1999 From the print edition
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