The Great Plains ranchers who have long grazed the
national grasslands face a growing push by the Forest Service to
take over management and try to restore the prairie
landscape.
Magazine
June 5, 2000
The Great Plains ranchers who have long grazed the national grasslands face a growing push by the Forest Service to take over management and try to restore the prairie landscape.
Feature
Sidebar
Maverick rancher and part-time ranger John Heiser is a
rare voice for conservation on the North Dakota plains.
North Dakota State law prohibits elk outside Theodore
Roosevelt National Park, and so far attempts by ranchers and
environmentalists to create an "elk cooperative" on the plains have
come to naught.
Attempts to create wilderness areas in the North Dakota
grasslands bump into a 19th century state law that designated every
one-mile section line in the state as a public highway.
Perspective
The Conservation and Reinvestment Act of 2000, which would
guarantee permanent funding for 15 years for buying land for
conservation, has broad support but still faces an interesting
dance through a complicated Congress.
Book Reviews
Montana State University's Shakespeare in the Park program
brings plays to little towns across the state.
People and the development they bring pose the greatest
threat to grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park.
Electricity providers in Arizona will have to increase the
amount of renewable energy resources that they use.
"Crowded Prairie: Four Painters" presents the work of
Chuck Forsman, Karen Kitchel, John Hull and James Lancel McElhinney
in an exhibit at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery.
"Mount St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano"
by Rob Carson paints a compelling picture in words and photos of
the 1980 eruption and its consequences.
"Wounding the West: Montana, Mining and the Environment"
by David Stiller highlights the dangers posed to Westerners by more
than a half-million abandoned hardrock mines.
"El Valle," a new monthly newspaper in the Four Corners
area, combines English and Spanish to focus on the lives and
concerns of Hispanic people in the area.
The public can comment on the Forest Service's proposed
new 10-year management plan for Hells Canyon National Recreation
Area on the Idaho-Oregon border.
Volunteers are needed at the 7th annual festival that
celebrates Latin American culture.
Family histories will be told at the Western Issues
Conference, June 23-24.
The annual writers' gathering, Fishtrap, features Ursula
K. LeGuin, Luis Alberto Urrea and others, July 10-16.
The Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado wants people to repair
trails, plant trees and take on other tasks this summer, and has
put out a directory.
Volunteers can choose from 33 projects to work on the
Continental Divide Trail.
A 24-page study by three environmental groups talks about
national gold reserves being harmful both economically and
environmentally.
Government officials, environmentalists and ranchers will
meet to discuss how collaborative processes work, June
19-20.
Heard Around the West
"Monster" is pussycat in Penn.; farmer plows over
snowmobiles in Canada; Arizona Republic condemns vigilante approach
to illegal immigration; Psychic Network welcome to bring jobs to
Santa Fe; wanna-be doctors face acting "patients"; PETA in
Wyo.
Dear Friends
Visitors from Los Alamos; Albuquerque potluck; Michael
Medberry mending; obituaries of Lynn Dickey and Ken Parks; HCN's
lawn-mowing team.
News
Mike Lawrence, manager of the cleanup effort on Hanford
Nuclear Reservation, resigns, saying the project is financially out
of control.
The Save Ward Valley Coalition closes its office, saying
the group has made "tremendous steps toward victory," in fighting a
proposed nuclear-waste dump in Ward Valley, California.
David Brower quits Sierra Club; White River Nat'l Forest
plan gets avalanche of mail; judge says Army Corps of Engineers has
been ignoring environmental laws on Yellowstone River; acting
grizzly Bart dies.
The forest fire that ravaged Los Alamos, N.M., stemming
from a Park Service prescribed burn that swept out of control, has
everyone debating the whole concept of prescribed burning in the
West.
The Cerro Grande fire is only the beginning of trouble,
forest managers say, warning that summer monsoons on the burned
hillsides could cause floods that send toxic and radioactive wastes
into the Rio Grande.
The Supreme Court upholds Interior Secretary Bruce
Babbitt's grazing reforms, and allows non-ranchers to qualify for
grazing permits.
Hardrock mining tops the list of industrial polluters in
the EPA's annual Toxics Release Inventory.
Seattle wants to meet future electricity needs without
increasing greenhouse gases through coal and other fossil
fuels.
Environmentalists and the timber industry both oppose the
Forest Service's plan for protecting roadless areas.
- Salmon swim above the Grand Coulee Dam for first time in 80 years
- WiFi, Amazon and food trucks: Trump team’s vision for national parks
- The U.S. has spent more money erasing Native languages than saving them
- Influx of grizzly bears compels Montanans to adapt
- Hiking trails are a path to destruction for Colorado elk
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