In the wake of the huge fires that swept across the Great
Basin in August 1999, the BLM is seeking ways to restore the
sagebrush landscape and to control the fire-prone cheatgrass that
now infests it.
Magazine
May 22, 2000
In the wake of the huge fires that swept across the Great Basin in August 1999, the BLM is seeking ways to restore the sagebrush landscape and to control the fire-prone cheatgrass that now infests it.
Feature
The fire-loving weed cheatgrass is taking over the Great
Basin's overgrazed sagebrush steppes, and BLM scientists are
struggling to find a way to eradicate the non-native weeds and
restore the land before it all goes up in flames.
Sidebar
Ecologist Joy Belski believes that cattle are the prime
culprit behind the rapid spread of weeds in the Great
Basin.
Some facts and statistics about the spread of weeds in the
West.
Uncommon Westerners
A profile of Forest Service botanist Steve Monsen
describes his battle with squarrose knapweed, which is infesting
the western part of Utah, where Monsen has spent his
life.
Essays
The prescribed burn in Bandelier National Monument that
roared out of control into Los Alamos, N.M., can be blamed on
logging restrictions, the writer argues.
Only consensus between environmentalists and loggers and
careful, sustainable forestry can protect the West from the kind of
fires that ravaged Los Alamos, N.M., the writer believes.
Heard Around the West
Steamboat Geyser erupts in Yellowstone; behind scenes at
Miss USA pageant; killer bees in AZ; backcountry skier gets to
safety with perseverance; subsidized smoking on reservations;
geckos released to control roaches in Golden Gate State Park,
Calif.
Dear Friends
"Errare humanum est"; summer interns Kayley Mendenhall and
Katie Oppenheimer; fourth grade visits HCN; Craig Child's reading;
William Hornby gets award.
News
The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to table for
five to 10 years any serious debate on breaching four dams in the
Snake River to save salmon.
Some wolf advocates are furious over the recent killing of
five livestock-attacking wolves in the White Cloud Mountains of
Idaho.
As Seattle's suburbs encroach on wildlife habitat,
residents alarmed by increasing mountain lion-human encounters have
pressured the Legislature into passing a law allowing the public to
hunt cougars with dogs.
Craters of the Moon expanded in Idaho; Colo. gold-mining
company sues Montana over anti-cyanide heap-leaching law; EPA's
Bill Yellowtail suspended during investigation; Allan Elias gets 17
years for exposing employee to cyanide; not that many cows in
NV.
As increasing numbers of recreationists discover Utah's
San Rafael Swell, the BLM struggles to manage the area and
environmentalists, ORVers and politicians wrangle over the best way
to preserve - or exploit - the land.
In Utah, a huge swap of state and federal lands in the
western part of the state falls through when environmentalists and
anti-wilderness locals object.
In Colorado, Rep. Scott McInnis has proposed a bill to
make the 130,000-acre Black Ridge Canyon a national conservation
area, with 72,000 acres designated wilderness.
A plan to extend the Continental Divide Trail through
northern New Mexico's Rio Arriba County meets opposition from
Hispanic locals, who claim the land under old Spanish land grants
and say that until their land is returned, no trail will go
through.
Letters
- Nevada lithium mine kicks off a new era of Western extraction
- ‘Wild Indian’ is much more than just an Indigenous film
- In Arizona, building a wall — and destroying a canyon
- Will the climate crisis tap out the Colorado River?
- All fracked up: A debut memoir wrestles with toxic masculinity in the oil fields
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