A conference on Grassbanks in the West: Challenges and Opportunities brings together environmentalists, ranchers, the Forest Service and writers Nov. 17-18 in Santa Fe, N.M. Speakers include former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, writer and Valle Grande Grassbank director Bill deBuys, poet and Animas Foundation director Drum Hadley and High Country News publisher Ed Marston. For more information call Courtney White, director of the Quivira Coalition, at 505/820-2544.