While experts disagree and timber industry pooh-poohs,
spotted owl may lose its long fight for survival.
Magazine
June 13, 1994
While experts disagree and timber industry pooh-poohs, spotted owl may lose its long fight for survival.
Feature
Sidebar
Numerous lawsuits attempt to halt logging of old-growth
forests.
Essays
Childhood in Wyoming was full of hidden riches.
Book Reviews
New monthly newspaper Dineh Tribune becomes fourth major
paper for Navajo Nation.
First annual Freedom Festival will celebrate energy
independence.
Federal audit shows $5.4 million intended for
reforestation to have been misspent.
Two-week course will explore Western issues.
Teton Science School offers natural history
courses.
Voices of the Earth Conference set.
Summer Fishtrap Gathering planned for Oregon.
Adopt-a-Trail program thrives in Idaho's Targhee National
Forest.
Review of The Independent Home: Living Well with Power
from the Sun, Wind and Water by Michael Potts.
Forest Trust publishes guide for environmentally aware
logging and forest use.
Dear Friends
Electronic archive begins; corrections; thanks for phone
books; visitors; intern Alexei Rubenstein
News
U.S. Forest Service's land trade with developer Tom
Chapman signed, but Telluride neighbors ask injunction to prevent
development.
GAO reports say DOE has yet to investigate corrupt
practices.
Babbitt's grazing hearing in Albuquerque runs into barbed
wire; he urges cooperation as ranchers and environmentalists
dispute.
People for the West, Colorado group, gather support from
Western governors and others at conference urging resistance to
"environmental storm troopers."
Bureau of Reclamation builds a "Disneyland" Hoover Dam
visitor center; cost will up power prices for area
customers.
Oregon environmental groups sue Malheur National Forest
for violating Clean Water Act by allowing grazing to raise water
temperatures in the Alan Day River, fatal to fish.
Male grizzly bear trapped and moved after eating bird
seed.
Construction of Sandstone Dam is approved despite doubts
about the geologic suitability of the site.
Oil pits kill thousands of migrating birds.
The bi-national program Project del Rio monitors the
increasing pollution of the Rio Grande on the U.S.-Mexico
border.
Agency destroys mining cabin used for recreation on
Manti-Lasal National Forest.
Harvester ants are stymieing nuclear waste disposal at
INEL by digging tunnels and moving radioactive dirt.
Six candidates for Navajo Nation presidency are running
for the August primary.
Increased tourism means no parking spaces at Grand
Canyon.
Babbitt plans to halt building of new roads, hotels and
entertainment facilities in national parks.
Gold mines are dewatering aquifers along Nevada's Humboldt
River.
Fremont County schools cancel wolf presentations at
elementary schools in Lander, Wyoming.
Drought ahead for the Northwest in summer.
Yellowstone's status as a "world heritage site" could
affect mining near the park.
Mescalero Apache tribe going ahead with controversial plan
to store nuclear waste.
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Opinion
Andy Kerr believes grazing must be ended rather than
reformed.
Letters
Rocky Mountain regional forester defends West Elks land
swap.
Writer applauds Susan Schock for fighting grazing in New
Mexico.
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- 9 numbers that explain the BLM’s headquarters boomerang back to D.C.
- After the Palisades Tahoe name change, where is the Washoe Tribe looking next?
- When public health becomes the public enemy
- In Arizona, a radical change in juvenile detention
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