The environmental and community challenges brought to
Washington's Olympic Peninsula by runaway sprawl and development
have some 're-inhabiting locals' almost nostalgic for the clear-cut
timber companies of 30 years ago.
Magazine
November 6, 2000
The environmental and community challenges brought to Washington's Olympic Peninsula by runaway sprawl and development have some 're-inhabiting locals' almost nostalgic for the clear-cut timber companies of 30 years ago.
Feature
Essays
The writer remembers living in a tipi outside Jackson
Hole, Wyo., 20 years ago, before the area turned into an enclave
for the rich, and eccentric but affordable housing was
outlawed.
A lifelong hunter wonders why all hunters are stereotyped
as pro-NRA, anti-control, when so many of the hunters she knows
feel differently.
Perspective
Despite its tremendous original support, CARA (the
Conservation and Resource Act of 1999) has come through Congress
much changed and reduced.
Book Reviews
Washington State University's Cooperative Extension Energy
Program has an Energy Ideas Clearinghouse Web site, offering many
ways to conserve power.
Fred Dexter of Nevada's Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club
is crusading against a planned four-lane bridge over the Colorado
River at Sugarloaf Mountain in the Lake Mead Recreation
Area.
Katie Alvord's book, Divorce Your Car! Ending the love
affair with the automobile, offers reason, advice and good humor
about reducing automobile use.
Scientists have created new, electronic maps showing what
the bottom of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park would look
like without water.
Environmentalists, ranchers, Forest Service and writers
come together for a conference Nov. 17-18 in Santa Fe,
N.M.
The Northwest Mining Association's 106th annual meeting,
"Winds of Change," will be held Dec. 4-8 in Spokane,
Wash.
The 17th annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be held Jan.
27 to Feb. 3, 2001, in Elko, Nevada.
Students and faculty from Reed College in Portland, Ore.,
are doing a Web survey to determine how much people value the
restoration of Snake River salmon and steelhead.
Heard Around the West
Moose lover's car hits moose; mating moose outside AK
classroom; Parade pokes fun at Berkeley; wolves adapt to
Yellowstone; pro-Gore speaker shoved in Eugene, OR; Babes in the
Woods calendar pictures; Redmond, WA, teen saves tree for dying
neighbor.
Dear Friends
Lynne Bama wins John M. Collier award for HCN story; fall
visitors; remembering Sidney Yates and Bruce Vento; Clevenger
Kehmeier writes HCN about "growing up handy."
News
As Utah's Deseret News tries to gain control of The Salt
Lake Tribune, journalists and others worry that the city's
two-newspaper days could be numbered.
BLM impounds cattle on Grand Staircase-Escalante N.M.,
Utah, and pulls 3 oil/gas leases in Wyo.; Moab's Atlas mine
tailings to be moved; Magnesium Corp. agrees to cut emissions in
northern Utah; ID enviros to sue ranchers and agencies over taking
salmon.
Fearing more last-minute monument designations, Westerners
have begun working with the Clinton administration to find other
ways to protect public lands.
At the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona,
ranchers, environmentalists and agencies are at odds over whether
grazing could help beat back an exotic grass, Lehmann
lovegrass.
Ariz. polls show anti-sprawl initiative losing; in Wash.,
anti-tax business Tim Eyman has 2 new initiatives on ballot after
measure last year ruled unconstitutional; OR Voters Guide 376 pp.
long; Sen. Slade Gorton, says media hurts re-election
chances.
Around today's Colorado Trail, where Camp Hale was in
WWII, hikers are finding old grenades and other unexploded
ordnance.
In Idaho, a judge rules that three fishing lodges along
the Wild and Scenic Salmon River must be removed.
In western Colorado's Coal Basin, geologist Steve Renner
works with alternative high school students in the area he has been
working to restore as part of a Forest Service ecosystem-monitoring
project.
A new law is intended to give former timber counties
federal tax money for schools and roads, without using the funds to
increase logging.
A documentary on sprawl, Subdivide and Conquer, has had
trouble being aired on public TV stations before the election in
Denver and Phoenix, where controversial anti-sprawl initiatives are
on the ballot.
The Nature Conservancy wants to buy Ellsworth Creek, a
Washington watershed near the mouth of the Columbia River that is
valued as a "typical Northwest forest ecosystem."
After 10 years of studies, an Army Corps of Engineers plan
to deepen 100 miles of the Columbia River shipping channel is in
trouble.
Environmentalists say Wyoming's Red Desert is in danger,
facing the prospect of 10,000-15,000 oil and gas wells by
2010.
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