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A new road for the public lands

November 8, 1999

President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt have a new strategy for protecting and managing the public lands, encouraging citizens and politicans to implement national conservation values in a regional and local way.

Feature

A new road for the public lands
President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt have a new strategy for protecting and managing the public lands, encouraging citizens and politicans to implement national conservation values in a regional and local way.
Ed Marston Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
The Forest Service sets off into uncharted territory
The latest struggle over the West's public lands centers on the Forest Service's huge system of logging roads, which conservationists want to see closed and obliterated, and off-road-vehicle users want opened to motorized recreation.
Todd Wilkinson Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition

Sidebar

Floyd brings on a hurricane of hog waste
Hurricane Floyd showed the downside of factory farming when flooding in North Carolina created a nasty soup of agricultural waste and hog and chicken carcasses.
Andrew G. Wright Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
A convert to conservation
Native Montanan and former dirt-bike lover Shawn Regnerus, who turned against ORVs when a favorite place was overrun by them, now is the head of the Roads Scholars Project for the Predator Conservation Alliance.
Todd Wilkinson Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
One forest takes on roads
Forest Service engineer Annie Connor began her career building roads and now heads the Clearwater National Forest's road-obliteration program.
Dan Oko Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
ORVs run wild and free in Utah
In Utah, off-road vehicle recreation is exploding on the public lands, and beleaguered BLM officials are having trouble keeping up.
Mike Medberry Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition

Book Reviews

USFS plans for more planning
The Forest Service is looking for public comments on its draft proposal for reshaping the 15-year management plans that guide the national forests.
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
The sacred comes home
The New York City-based Repatriation Foundation aims to restore Native American artifacts that end up in the art market to the tribes from which they came.
Karen Mockler Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
A road-ripper's report
"The Road-Ripper's Guide to Wildland Road Removal" details the harm roads do, the benefits of removal and the best techniques to accomplish road removal.
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Life near Rocky Flats
Although the "Historical Public Exposures Studies" says public health risks from bomb-building at Rocky Flats near Denver, CO were low, Len Ackland's book, "Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West," says risk can also mean catastrophe.
Karen Mockler Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Cowboy Poetry Gathering
The Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., is scheduled for Jan. 22-29, 2000.
Staff Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Montana Wilderness Association
Montana Wilderness Association's annual conference will be held Dec. 3-4 in Butte.
Staff Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Montana Audubon
Grants totaling more than $1,000 are being offered by Montana Audubon.
Staff Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Frank Church lecture series
The Environmental Resource Center of Ketchum, Idaho, will pay tribute to the late Sen. Frank Church at its first lecture, Dec. 4, in Sun Valley.
Staff Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
California Wildlands 2000 Conference
The California Wildlands 2000 Conference will be held May 5-7.
Staff Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Wolves at Colorado's door?
The Boulder-based wolf recovery organization, Sinapu, is working on restoring the wolf to Colorado's San Juan Mountains.
Catherine Lutz Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Wolff campaigns for wolves
Pat Wolff's multi-media presentation, "Stop the War on Wildlife," aims to convince audiences that government predator control is "wasteful, biologically unsound and not cost-effective."
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
A lasting chemical legacy
The video, "A Toxic Train Runs Through It," investigates the long-lasting health impacts of a 1996 trail derailment and toxic chemical spill in Alberton, Montana.
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Keeping Glacier Park intact
The Park Service has completed a new General Management Plan that will guide resource management in Glacier National Park for the next few decades.
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Wising up to whirling disease
Scientists are considering new management strategies for whirling disease, as detailed in Trout Unlimited's report, "Whirling Disease in the U.S."
Rebecca Clarren Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Mining may need some brakes
The Mineral Policy Center's new report, "Six Mines, Six Mishaps," says that outmoded mining regulations can be environmental disasters, while the National Academy of Sciences' report, "Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands," defends the existing laws.
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Homes on the Range photos by High Country News readers
Staff Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Paper delivery problems; visitors.
Ed Marston Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition

News

Score one for the owl
A federal judge clamps down on permits for new development in and around Tucson, Ariz., to protect habitat for the endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl.
Tony Davis Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Wilderness water wins round in court
The Idaho Supreme Court rules that wilderness areas have reserved water rights "by implication."
Rocky Barker Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Court enforces a healthy environment
The Montana Supreme Court says that the provision in the state's constitution that guarantees residents "a clean and healthful environment" protects the state's natural resources from actual, proven damage and potential harm.
Andrea Barnett Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Judge topples small timber sales
A federal judge's ruling against the Forest Service's "categorical exclusion" provision, which had allowed smaller timber sales without environmental assessments, hurts small-scale loggers, sawmill workers and owners, such as Allen Todd of Hotchkiss, CO.
Ali Macalady Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
The Wayward West
ASARCO merges with Grupa Mexico; illegal road through Vail wetland closed; billionaire helps conservationists buy Loomis State Forest; Bruce Babbitt and Gov. Mike Leavitt agree to outline of Rep. Jim Hansen's wilderness bill; Utah black-footed ferrets.
Ali Macalady And Karen Mockler Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
Can a hog farm bring home the bacon?
A huge, industrial hog farm would bring much-needed jobs and profits to South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Reservation, but a growing number of tribal members have begun to criticize the project and worry about the waste it would produce.
Eric Whitney Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
On the Missouri, the middle grounds gets soggy
The eight states and 30 Indian tribes of the Missouri River Basin have come to an agreement on how to manage the river, but environmentalists say the agreement will not help the river's endangered species and its other fish and wildlife.
Peter Carrels Nov. 8, 1999 From the print edition
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