In Montana, the Church Universal and Triumphant re-invents
itself as its charismatic founder, Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
retires, and new leadership offers part of the sect's Royal Teton
Ranch for conservation easements and federal land trades.
Magazine
March 15, 1999
In Montana, the Church Universal and Triumphant re-invents itself as its charismatic founder, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, retires, and new leadership offers part of the sect's Royal Teton Ranch for conservation easements and federal land trades.
Feature
Sidebar
Elizabeth Clare Prophet's most recent incarnation has led
her through four marriages, the founding of the Church Universal
and Triumphant and now a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease that
forces her to step down from the leadership of the sect.
The theology of the Church Universal and Triumphant is a
smorgasbord of world religions that the new church leadership is
trying to repackage in a more accessible form.
The Church Universal and Triumphant wants to work with the
state and federal government on the management of the bison that
stray from Yellowstone onto the church's Royal Teton
Ranch.
Highlights from the Church Universal and Triumphant's
proposal to allow bison to roam free on the Royal Teton
Ranch.
The internal debate over the Church Universal and
Triumphant's recent changes is reflected in cyberspace, where Web
sites air opinions pro and con.
Book Reviews
The anthology "New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and
Community" features essays by contemporary Mormons who seek a
reconciliation between their faith and the Utah
landscape.
Craig Denton's "People of the West Desert" uses words and
photographs to document the quirky, stubborn people of the West
Desert of eastern Nevada and western Utah - one of the West's
emptiest landscapes.
"Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental
History," edited by Carolyn Merchant, is a useful history that
activists will find inspirational.
José A. Rivera's "Acequia Culture: Water, Land and
Community in the Southwest" is a valuable reference on the acequia
system of ditch irrigation and the Hispanic communities it
nourishes.
The Capulin, Colo.-based Restore Our Alamosa River is
working with the national group, Water Keepers Alliance, to heal
the polluted Alamosa.
The BLM will introduce an adopt-a-ferret program in
Colorado to aid in the restoration of the endangered black-footed
ferret.
Some biologists say that the decline of salmon in the
Northwest has drastically altered the diet of the region's grizzly
bears.
F.E. Bill DuBois has taken photos of Nevada mines from his
plane for 24 years - a visual history that is now being exhibited
in California.
Nominations are sought for Wirth Chair for Environmental
and Community Development Policy awards, due by April 15.
The world's best wildlife films will be showcased at the
22nd International Film Festival April 17-24, in Missoula,
Mont.
A conference on "breaking the nuclear chain" at the Nevada
Test Site, May 7-10, will include nonviolence training.
This year's Sitka Symposium will feature "A Culture to
Sustain Us: Creating a Center that Holds," June 17-23, in Sitka,
Alaska.
The Cove/Mallard Coalition in Idaho offers hands-on
experience at its workshops, May 26-31, in becoming an in-the-woods
activist.
The national forests of Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming
need volunteers to do conservation work in the outdoors.
The Mineral Policy Center offers a free pamphlet on the
hazards of mining.
A workbook about the dangers of exploring abandoned mines
is available free to youth groups and educators.
Heard Around the West
Radioactive tumbleweeds at Hanford; reporters on
environmentalists; brothel for sale; student newspaper under fire
in Salt Lake City; are Vegans a gang in Sandy, Utah?; "truth in
slaughtering" labels on furs; stranded on a ski lift; Idaho women
in gov't.
Dear Friends
Almost fooled by a fax; cold weather drop-ins; name that
greaseball; "Letters from a Stranger" and other books.
News
Activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill has lived for more than a
year in a 1,000-year-old redwood near Stafford, Calif., to protest
the cutting of old-growth trees.
Endangered red-legged frogs have taken up residence in a
toxic-waste dump near Santa Maria, Calif.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt held in contempt of court
for stonewalling a class-action lawsuit aimed at tracking down
billions of dollars his department collected from grazing, oil, gas
and timber on Indian reservations.
INEL missing 600 boxes of documents; enviros sue USFWS on
behalf of goshawk; Wyoming relaxes standards for cleaning up
industrial sites; battle continues over proposed open-pit gold mine
in Wash.'s Okanogan Highlands; two Colorado lynx die.
Dakota Mining Corp. left an expensive, toxic mess behind
when it abandoned its Stibnite gold mine in Idaho's Payette
National Forest.
Activist Grace Potorti has spent the last 15 years as a
watchdog on the military in Nevada, and her efforts have helped to
bring about reform at Nellis Air Force Base.
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission, created to oversee the
state Department of Fish and Game, is under attack for supporting
the breaching of four Snake River dams to help endangered
salmon.
Conservationists and boaters are battling over American
Whitewater's attempt to open Yellowstone's rivers to
kayaking.
Montana legislators are trying to find ways to get around
the recently passed voter initiative 137, which halts new or
expanded cyanide leach gold mines.
A wandering wolf sighted in northeastern Oregon's Blue
Mountains will be recaptured and returned to central Idaho, where
she was originally released into the wild.
In western Colorado's La Plata County, locals fight for a
moratorium on gas development until the state studies the impacts
of the methane drilling that many say is making their lives
miserable.
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