Wildlife trapping - which has a long history in the West -
today comes into fierce conflict with environmentalists, animal
advocates, and residents upset by the risk traps pose to domestic
dogs.
Magazine
April 12, 1999
Wildlife trapping - which has a long history in the West - today comes into fierce conflict with environmentalists, animal advocates, and residents upset by the risk traps pose to domestic dogs.
Feature
Sidebar
A timeline traces the history of animal trapping in the
United States from Pre-Columbian days until now.
A profile of Wyoming trapper Tom Lucas offers insight into
an old-fashioned but very controversial lifestyle
Some say that animal trapping is still necessary for
predator control and other specific wildlife problems.
Essays
John Wesley Powell, who was a Civil War hero, scientist
and geographer, as well as the explorer who first rafted the length
of the Colorado River, could be the West's unofficial patron saint,
a flawed and human saint whose ideas still challenge us
today.
Book Reviews
Peter Carrels' "Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota
Water War" is a shocking story of how bureaucracy destroyed rural
economies and indigenous people, all in the name of
progress.
University of Colorado Law School lecture series on "Hot
Topics in Natural Resources" April 16 and May 4 on the Boulder
campus.
Montana Audubon annual meeting will focus on "Preserving
Our Rural Landscape," April 23-25, in Helena.
Primate expert Dr. Jane Goodall speaks on "Chimpanzees: So
like us," April 27 in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Arkansas River Basin Water Forum, "A River of Dreams and
Realities," will be held April 23-24 in Canon City, Colo.
Desert wildlands activists will discuss grazing reform at
the 21st annual Desert Conference, April 29-May 2, in southeastern
Oregon.
The High Desert Museum calls for nominations for the 1999
Earle A. Chiles Award for thoughtful management of natural and
cultural resources of the High Desert.
Wyoming Wildlife Federation's 53rd annual meeting will be
held May 15-16 in Story, Wyo.
Colorado College hosts a debate about draining Lake
Powell, April 21, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
"Travelers in an Antique Land" pairs poetry by William
Studebaker with photographs by Russell Hepworth.
Heard Around the West
Speed limits return to Mont.; chic camouflage; salmon too
pooped to procreate; coyote killed by snowmobile in Idaho; prairie
dogs are pets in Japan; Dave Barry and DIA; Utah's Burr Trail; bivy
sack controversy in "Mountaineers"; hand cannon at gun
show.
Dear Friends
Trash patrol; Elizabeth Manning and Westwater Canyon;
visitors; corrections.
News
Rafters and environmentalists rejoice because the federal
government orders the removal of Ron Pene's controversial gold mine
in Utah's Westwater Canyon.
The controversial Battle Mountain gold mine in Okanogan,
Wash., is denied a plan of operations because - ironically - the
mine fails to meet the requirements of the 1872 Mining
Law.
No refuge for prairie dogs in Baca County, CO; Zortman and
Landusky gold mines reclamation; pipe bomb for Forest Guardians in
Santa Fe; legislation fails to derail Mont. anti-cyanide
initiative; judge says Yellowstone broke law in bio-prospecting
deal.
An international environmental commission joins the debate
on how to protect the San Pedro River in southern Arizona, where
rapid growth has increased the pressure on the desert
river.
The listing of salmon and steelhead under the Endangered
Species Act is forcing communities like Bellevue, Wash., to take
action to protect fish habitat.
Despite word from the federal government that bison do not
threaten cattle with brucellosis, Montana continues to crack down
on stray animals and arrest protesters.
The Idaho Conservation League is furious because a
pro-timber industry group has set up a Web site with a very similar
name and an opposing message.
Dallas lawyer Thomas A. Fry III is appointed acting
director of BLM.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant outside Carlsbad, N.M.,
receives its first truckload of nuclear debris as anti-nuclear
activists continue to protest.
The Yellowstone River is still the longest undammed river
in the Lower 48, but miles of riprap on its banks lock the river
into a channel that is more a rain gutter than a free-flowing
river.
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