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.
Magazine
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
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.
Sidebar
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.
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.
Forest Service engineer Annie Connor began her career
building roads and now heads the Clearwater National Forest's
road-obliteration program.
In Utah, off-road vehicle recreation is exploding on the
public lands, and beleaguered BLM officials are having trouble
keeping up.
Book Reviews
The Forest Service is looking for public comments on its
draft proposal for reshaping the 15-year management plans that
guide the national forests.
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.
"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.
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.
The Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., is scheduled
for Jan. 22-29, 2000.
Montana Wilderness Association's annual conference will be
held Dec. 3-4 in Butte.
Grants totaling more than $1,000 are being offered by
Montana Audubon.
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.
The California Wildlands 2000 Conference will be held May
5-7.
The Boulder-based wolf recovery organization, Sinapu, is
working on restoring the wolf to Colorado's San Juan
Mountains.
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."
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.
The Park Service has completed a new General Management
Plan that will guide resource management in Glacier National Park
for the next few decades.
Scientists are considering new management strategies for
whirling disease, as detailed in Trout Unlimited's report,
"Whirling Disease in the U.S."
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.
Heard Around the West
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News
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.
The Idaho Supreme Court rules that wilderness areas have
reserved water rights "by implication."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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