Magazine
June 19, 2000
The Salton Sea became the Salton Sea in 1905, when human accident flooded the desert; now its survival is uncertain, as demand for scarce water continues to grow in Southern California.
Feature
The Salton Sea became the Salton Sea in 1905, when human
accident flooded the desert; now its survival is uncertain, as
demand for scarce water continues to grow in Southern
California.
Sidebar
An introduction to the special issues on the Salton Sea
and the Colorado River Delta points to signs of life in an abused
landscape in Southern California and Mexico.
Salton Sea State Recreation Area Superintendent Steve
Horvitz explains why the sea is so important.
Longtime Salton City resident Norm Niver talks about the
need to save the Salton Sea.
Mary Belardo, chair of the Torres-Martinez Band of Desert
Cahuilla Indians, talks about the Indian perspective on the Salton
Sea.
Heard Around the West
Reno waitresses rebel against high heels; Domino's Pizza
via SUV; Ford Motor Co. admits SUVs cause problems; "pet owner" may
change to "pet guardian" in Boulder, CO; prize-bearing cockroaches;
how USAF considered bombing the moon; Nate Madsen's
redwood.
Dear Friends
Summer intern Beth Wohlberg; HCN's Albuquerque board
meeting; meeting with readers; new edition of "Water in the
West."
News
Exotic crayfish are invading streams throughout the West,
and devastating the native crayfish and other riparian
wildlife.
San Rafael Swell bill is pulled; Al Gore pledges to
protect roadless forests; California state park fees cut in half;
gas pipeline companies disregard safety.
The Clinton administration designates four new national
monuments: Hanford Reach, Oregon's Soda Mountain area, Arizona's
Ironwood Forest and the Canyons of the Ancients in southwestern
Colorado.
A plan to expand Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National
Monument and turn it into a national park would purchase the Baca
Ranch and keep its much-sought-after groundwater in the San Luis
Valley.
Pressure is building for the federal government to send
more of the groundwater in Colorado's San Luis Valley south in the
Rio Grande for New Mexico and Texas.
In the wake of the Summitville Mine disaster, Colorado
environmentalists are following Montana's example and working on
initiative to ban cyanide in new open-pit gold mines in the state
and to stop expansion of the Cripple Creek & Victor
mine.
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