On the California-Mexico border, environmentalists from
two countries are working to restore the Colorado River
Delta.
Magazine
July 3, 2000
On the California-Mexico border, environmentalists from two countries are working to restore the Colorado River Delta.
Feature
Sidebar
Nephi, Utah, resident Ross Garrett in his own words talks
about water and population growth in Utah.
Utah Rivers Council director Zachary Frankel talks about
his love for rivers and the need to protect them.
Essays
The writer believes that much can be learned from the
Cerro Grande fire at Los Alamos, N.M., if we will acknowledge our
ignorance and learn how to live in the West.
A former Park Service director says the Los Alamos fire
was due partly to "our refusal to live within the rules ordained by
... a high, dry, windy, rocky, sandy region."
Heard Around the West
Rainbow gathering in Dillon, Mont.; people throw things at
Ag Secretary Dan Glickman; PETA vs. dairy in Midwest high schools;
rafting rescues in Grand Canyon; Texas has an "official" SUV;
Milford High School in Utah vs. 16-year-old disgruntled
student.
Dear Friends
Summer break; new board members Arturo Sandoval, Mark
Gordon and Andy Hays; visitors; congratulations to Stanley Crawford
and Theo Colborn; correction.
News
Climbers who wish to scale Colorado's Culebra Peak must
now request permission from the new owner of the controversial
Taylor Ranch, which includes the mountain.
In the wake of the Cerro Grande fire, Los Alamos faces a
new problem: how to prevent summer rainstorms from flooding the
fire-denuded canyons and washing the laboratory's hazardous wastes
into the Rio Grande.
New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici proposes bill for thinning
forests; Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio vs. fee demo enforcement; Canada
geese in Washington to be killed; Utah Rep. Jim Hansen vs. new
monumts; employers want new work visas for foreigners.
Environmentalists in favor of roadless area protection and
loggers and ORVers against it both gather in Missoula, Mont., to
give the Forest Service their opinion.
Tooele County can't stop the temporary storage of spent
nuclear fuel rods on land owned by the Skull Valley Band of Goshute
Indians.
Telski, the ski resort in Telluride, Colo., wins a lawsuit
and can now expand onto national forest lands.
The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Project, a
controversial proposal for managing federal land in the Northwest,
may be near approval after six years of work.
In Colorado, environmentalists are calling for a halt to
the aerial gunning of coyotes until its effects on wildlife can be
studied.
Matt Chew, the Arizona state parks ecologist who was fired
for criticizing the development of Kartchner Caverns State Park, is
reinstated by the agency.
California homeowner Karen Schambach puts together a
report documenting the abuses of off-highway vehicles and the lack
of enforcement of environmental regulations.
Zachary Frankel's Utah Rivers Council is fighting the
Central Utah Project, particularly a plan by farmers and investors
to sell CUP water intended for irrigation to rapidly growing Salt
Lake County.
Conservationists are fighting a Forest Service plan to
control tussock moths by using ground-up caterpillars that carry a
virus.
Two conservation groups - Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Fre and
Idaho's Environmental Defense Institute - are suing the DOE over
radioactive waste treatment at the Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory.
In Colorado's San Juan Mountains, locals are trying to
preserve a historic ghost town, Ironton, from
development.
Some residents of Rocky Ford, Colo., are worried by the
prospect of area farmers selling their water rights to the rapidly
growing city of Aurora.
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