New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument is threatened by
problems that include the runaway growth of the neighboring city of
Albuquerque, disagreements over how to manage the resource, and a
controversial, embattled superintendent, Judith Cordova.
Magazine

October 25, 1999
New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument is threatened by problems that include the runaway growth of the neighboring city of Albuquerque, disagreements over how to manage the resource, and a controversial, embattled superintendent, Judith Cordova.
Feature
Anthropologist Christy Turner has stirred up a lot of
controversy with his book, "Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in
the Prehistoric American Southwest."
Sidebar
In her own words, Petroglyph National Monument Supervisor
Judith Cordova defends her record on the job.
A Park Service team conducted an "oversight review" of
Petroglyph National Monument that cited "communication and morale"
as big problems for employees.
In his own words, Albuquerque's Open Space Division
director Matthew Schmader discusses the problem of vandalism in the
park, and how to prevent it.
In his own words, Dave Simon, Southwest Regional director
of the National Parks and Conservation Association, criticizes what
the Park Service has done in Petroglyph.
A Washington Post columnist hits a nerve in Wyoming when
he scolds the state for its dependence on oil and gas, lack of
leadership and scarcity of good jobs.
Essays
The Forest Service is setting a hopeful precedent by
recommending five roadless areas for wilderness designation in
national grasslands in North and South Dakota and
Wyoming.
Book Reviews
In Culver City, Calif., the Center for Land Use
Interpretation is featuring an exhibit on Nevada's Nellis Air Force
Bombing and Gunnery Range, home of the notorious - and mysterious -
Area 51.
The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz., is planning three
major exhibits on Indian culture for the year 2000.
The Humane Society of the United States has begun its own
land trust, the Wildlife Land Trust, which is particularly
dedicated to wildlife protection.
The completely revised and rewritten book, "The National
Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide" by Mark Harvey, is a
well-written guide to being in the forests, deserts and high
country.
The Environmental Restoration Conference, "Challenges for
the New Millennium," will be held Nov. 11-13 in Tucson,
Arizona.
Utah's Wetlands and Riparian Center holds its second
annual conference Nov. 18 in Salt Lake City.
Idaho Water Resources Research Institute holds monthly
video-link seminars in Boise, Moscow, Idaho Falls and Coeur
d'Alene.
The Center of the American West wants to know what every
Westerner should know and has provided a Web site for discussion
and debate.
Animal Protection of New Mexico Inc. hosts a conference
for animals Nov. 5-7 in Albuquerque, N.M.
Student Conservation Association interns may volunteer to
work in the nation's parks through the AmeriCorps
program.
River Network from Portland, Ore., and River Watch Network
of Montpelier, Vt., have merged to form a new group, River
Network.
Perspective
The incestuous relationship between the oil and gas
industry and the Wyoming government is finally being challenged
through a state Supreme Court decision that ruled against
Exxon.
News
What was slated to be a big, vigorous wise-use protest,
during which sagebrush rebels would open up an old Forest Service
road into Nevada's Jarbidge Wilderness, sputters to a halt with
fewer than 50 attendees.
Washington state raises price of Loomis forest; Colorado's
Black Canyon of the Gunnison Nat'l Monument to become nat'l park;
government buys out Andalex's coal leases in Utah's Grand
Staircase-Escalante Nat'l Monument; Bruce Babbitt will not be
indicted.
President Clinton announces an initiative to protect 40-60
million acres of unroaded national forests.
The Mohave Generating Station in southern Nevada agrees to
clean up its operation, which has been notorious for fouling the
air over Arizona's Grand Canyon.
The federal Fish and Game Service has been working
successfully with Utah state agencies to restore the least chub
without ever having it listed under the Endangered Species
Act.
In Tucson, Ariz., a mayoral election is heating up over
whether the city should try again to make use of the notoriously
foul water that comes through the Central Arizona
Project.
Arizona's Pinal County wants to use the Central Arizona
Project's Colorado River water to finally fill Picacho Reservoir in
Picacho Lake State Recreation Area.
Heard Around the West
Cows in tutus; drinking after driving in Wyo.; no
snowboarders on Aspen ski slopes; cell phones on Grand Teton; ATMs
at USFS campgrounds; greenhouse heated by tires vetoed in Colo.;
litter contest on Calif. beach; tent-hating Yellowstone
grizzly.
Dear Friends
Getting it right (corrections); the golden season brings
visitors.
Letters
Uncommon Westerners
Legendary mountaineer and outdoor educator Paul Petzoldt,
who founded the National Outdoor Leadership Training School (NOLS)
and the Wilderness Education Association, has died at the age of
91.
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