In Nevada, Walker Lake is slowly disappearing, as local
farmers, an Indian tribe and conservationists battle over the
rights to the water that once filled the lake.
Magazine
September 13, 1999
In Nevada, Walker Lake is slowly disappearing, as local farmers, an Indian tribe and conservationists battle over the rights to the water that once filled the lake.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, Mono Lake Committee staffer Gary Nelson
compares the problems his group has successfully dealt with to the
challenges facing the Walker Lake Working Group.
In his own words, BLM Manager John Singlaub talks about
how to save Walker Lake by building partnerships with grassroots
organizations like the Walker Lake Working Group.
Essays
With tongue firmly in cheek, the writer argues that small
Western towns need to give up their traditional summer festivals
celebrating the Old West, and replace them with events honoring the
New West in all its strangeness.
The writer argues playfully that the only way to get out
of the environmental mess we've created is to join his campaign and
"Die for Your Planet."
Book Reviews
In "Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?"
author Sandra Postel brings a clear, thoughtful approach to the
intertwined questions of food production and population
growth.
In his new collection, "Fur and Loafing in Yosemite,"
cartoonist Phil Frank hilariously follows the adventures of
dysfunctional rangers, tourists and bears in Yosemite National
Park.
Friends of the Bow, Biodiversity Associates and Snowy
Range Group Sierra Club are leading a hike to unprotected
wilderness in Medicine Bow National Forest Sept. 18.
The Indian Land Working Group is holding a symposium on
"Taking a Stand in Indian Land," Sept. 20-23.
Northwest Environmental Defense Center will holds its
annual retreat on the Oregon coast Sept. 24-26.
The largest mining exposition in the Western Hemisphere
will be held Oct. 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nev.
A handbook to explain the 1964 Wilderness Act has been
published by The Wilderness Society.
Volunteers are needed to help maintain the Continental
Divide Trail from Montana to New Mexico.
Native American nation-building is the topic of a Nov.
11-13 conference in Tucson, Ariz.
A congress to discuss the future of recreation on public
lands will be held Nov. 29-Dec. 2 in Aspen, Colo.
More than 100 tribal nations will be present to help bring
in the year 2000 in Tucson, Ariz.
A report from the Trust for Public Land is offered
free.
Heard Around the West
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt has fun at Yellowstone while Bruce
Babbitt is grumpy in Maine; Jesse Hendrix feeding hummingbirds;
removing killer bees in Tucson; Yodaville, Ariz., vs. the military;
Mt. Rainier Nat'l Park turns 100; lightning kills bear in
Ore.
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News
Bison biologist Mary Meagher joins conservationists, area
business people and snowmobilers in denouncing Yellowstone National
Park's new winter use plan.
Salmon vs. traffic light in Puyallup, Wash.; two male
sockeye journey up Salmon River; Church Universal & Triumphant
gives USFS winter bison range; BLM told to be quicker getting cows
off damaged land; Utah's Capitol Reef N.P. buys grazing
allotment.
Seven reintroduced Mexican wolves from the Pipestem Pack
are recaptured after they attacked cattle near Clifton,
Ariz.
The Quincy Library Group sees its controversial forest
plan put into action when the Forest Service doubles logging on
California's Plumas, Lassen and Tahoe national forests while
protecting habitat for the northern spotted owl.
The very rare Idaho ground squirrel - which is thriving on
Frank Anderson's OX Ranch - is in danger elsewhere because of the
scarcity of its food supply, and biologists say using fire to
restore meadows may help the animal recover.
Recent studies are casting doubts on whether pepper spray
is as effective as once thought in protecting hikers and hunters
from attacks by bears.
Bear specialist Gary Moses says that backcountry users
carrying pepper spray should never let down their guard in bear
country.
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