A pastoral letter being prepared by the Catholic bishops
of the Northwest calls Catholics and others to a new environmental,
economic and spiritual relationship with a sacred river - the
Columbia.
Magazine
September 11, 2000
A pastoral letter being prepared by the Catholic bishops of the Northwest calls Catholics and others to a new environmental, economic and spiritual relationship with a sacred river - the Columbia.
Feature
Sidebar
Excerpts from the draft of the pastoral letter speak of
the need for a new Catholic environmental ethic that respects
Native peoples, wildlife, water and the land in the
Northwest.
Spokane Bishop William Skylstad brings his rural and
environmental background to the task of heading the steering
committee on the Northwestern bishops' pastoral letter.
Uncommon Westerners
Remembering the late John Sawhill, president of the Nature
Conservancy, whose unique blend of environmental fervor and ability
to schmooze with the rich helped to make his group the nation's
largest conservation organization.
Book Reviews
In November, New Mexico's Bosque del Apache National
Wildlife Refuge hosts its annual Festival of the Cranes.
Defender of Wildlife's report, "Amber Waves of Gain,"
accuses the American Farm Bureau of kowtowing to agribusiness at
the expense of farmers and the environment.
The Oregon Flora Project is working to create a
comprehensive list of every plant that grows in the
state.
The Chatfield Basin Conservation Network brings together
businesspeople, county officials, road builders and
environmentalists to preserve open space and wildlife habitat south
of Denver, Colo.
A Sustainable Communities Symposium will be held Sept.
22-24 in Crested Butte, Colo.
Animal tracking, storytelling and more are taught at the
Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, Wash.
A new Web site managed by the National Audubon Society and
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology helps birders.
The EPA rarely wins lawsuits, according to Jonathan H.
Adler's report from Reason Public Policy Institute.
An anthology, "Voices in the Wind," contains short
stories, essays, poems and editorials inspired by the Waterton
Glacier International Peace Park.
Noise pollution critics believe the only way to solve
noise annoyance problems is by banning motorized water skis,
according to this report.
Ed Marston will speak on collaboration in the West at
Colorado Mountain Club's Natural History and Environmental Issues
School on Sept. 19.
A report from the Government Accounting Office says that
land exchanges by the Forest Service and BLM are rarely in the
public's best interest.
"Religion and the Forests," a new publication by the
California-based Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation, calls
for an end to commercial logging on public forests.
New research suggests that trout that spawn in cooler
water may be protected from whirling disease.
"Weed," a play by Michi Panttaja, takes an entertaining
look at what happens when a farmer finds an endangered plant on his
land.
The Salmon Corps trains young Native Americans in stream
restoration work in the Northwest.
A Wilderness Society report says that off-road vehicle use
is one of the most serious threats to wild places.
Heard Around the West
Real cowboys wear pink; most isolated places in U.S.;
controversial junior high gun program in Utah; Buffalo Commons
Corp. goes belly-up in N.D.; woman drives into cougar in Ore.;
treating "wealth angst"; grasshopper starts fire in
Washington.
Dear Friends
A sad goodbye to Robert Hayutin; bumper crop of
visitors.
News
A coalition of Indian tribes and the Sierra Club finally
shuts down Arizona Tufflite's White Vulcan Mine in the San
Francisco Peaks, which produced pumice for stone-washed jeans on
land Indians hold sacred.
Army Corps of Engineers loses approval to dredge Columbia;
85% baby salmon/steelhead on Snake River were barged this year; 222
sockeye return to Idaho's Redfish Lake; Wash.'s Goldsborough Dam to
be breached; Dick Cheney wants to undo monuments.
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell proposes a national historic
site for southeastern Colorado, where women, children and elderly
Indians were killed by cavalry in the Sand Creek
Massacre.
Unable to afford skyrocketing rents, a growing number of
Telluride, Colo., workers live illegally on Forest Service
land.
Many Glacier and other historic hotels in Glacier National
Park need major restoration, but some fear proposed legislation
undermines concessionaire reforms only recently approved by
Congress.
Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. is proposing to build
"Sunrise," a brand-new town on company-owned land in the Salt Lake
Valley near South Jordan, Utah.
Letters
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- 9 numbers that explain the BLM’s headquarters boomerang back to D.C.
- After the Palisades Tahoe name change, where is the Washoe Tribe looking next?
- When public health becomes the public enemy
- In Arizona, a radical change in juvenile detention
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