When residents of the village of Tome, N.M., challenged
plans for a nearby four-lane highway and bridge to facilitate the
commute from Albuquerque to the suburbs, they took on New Mexico's
huge "sprawl machine" - and won.
Magazine
December 4, 2000
When residents of the village of Tome, N.M., challenged plans for a nearby four-lane highway and bridge to facilitate the commute from Albuquerque to the suburbs, they took on New Mexico's huge "sprawl machine" - and won.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, Bob Davey of the Valley Improvement
Association explains the need for the highway and bridge through
Tome, N.M.
Tome resident Ray Garcia, president of the Historic Tome
Adelino Neighborhood Association, talks about the vision behind his
group.
Real estate agent and Valencia County Commissioner Alicia
Aguilar talks about the need for planning in the county.
Lora Lucero of the New Mexico chapter of the American
Planning Association talks about the need to balance local,
community control with state guidance in land-use
planning.
Book Reviews
WaterWatch's recent report, "Rivers Without Water:
Oregon's Unnatural Disaster," offers suggestions for keeping more
water in the state's streams and rivers.
LightHawk, a nonprofit airline, uses its small planes to
fly politicians, environmentalists and journalists over landscapes
degraded by mining, clear-cutting and other uses.
In western Washington, a program called FarmLink connects
prospective farmers with current farmers who would like to sell
land.
Oregon biologist James Larison has found that 46 percent
of the ptarmigans he tested had toxic levels of the trace metal
cadmium in their kidneys.
The online environmental magazine "Grist" tries to keep a
sense of humor in its work as a self-described "beacon in the
smog."
"Mountains & Rivers: A Quarterly Journal of Natural
History for the Klamath-Siskiyou Region" celebrates its region and
the creatures that inhabit it through essays, poetry, reports and
artwork.
The Forest Service has released its final version of a
plan to limit road-building on nearly one-third of the nation's
national forest.
Yosemite National Park has a new management plan intended
to reduce traffic and restore habitat, by using 500 buses to
shuttle visitors through the park, among other changes.
"Backtracking: By Foot, Canoe and Subaru on the Lewis and
Clark Trail" by Benjamin Long describes how the author and his wife
quit their jobs to hit the road, retracing the journey of Lewis and
Clark.
The Cheyenne River Sioux tribe is trying to restore
endangered black-footed ferrets to the South Dakota
reservation.
Colorado Preservation Inc.'s conference, "Saving Places
2001," focuses on preserving historic and diverse cultural sites,
Feb. 2-3, in Denver.
Heard Around the West
Robert Shields' minutia-filled diaries; Nat'l Assn. of
Squash Artillery; bears in Aspen; Virgin, Utah, gun mandate; BYU
vs. multi-pierced ears; Dona Nieto vs. loggers; ORVs on interstate
median strips?; wearable laptops from England.
Dear Friends
Stop the presses!; David Lavender turns 90; Tom Bell and
Bruce Babbitt; visitors.
News
To ease the process of reintroducing grizzly bears to the
Bitterroot Mountains on the Montana-Idaho border, the Fish and
Wildlife Service is setting up a citizen management panel to give
locals a voice in the project.
Maria Cantwell beats Slade Gorton in Wash. Senate race;
Democrats plow reservation roads in MT; Wyo. state Rep. Carolyn
Paseneaux charged with voter fraud; Ariz. House Speaker Jeff
Groscost, R, ousted; Boulder, Colo., voters ax low-cost
housing.
Utah ranchers take back cattle impounded by the BLM from
grazing allotments on Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.
The latest version of Colorado's controversial Animas-La
Plata water project passed the Senate and could become a rider on
spending legislation when Congress resumes Dec. 5.
Moab, Utah, is trying to regulate commercial light
pollution to keep glare out of the night sky over area
parks.
Delivery of Klamath River water to California's Lower
Klamath National Wildlife Refuge was cut off this fall in order to
keep the river flowing for endangered species and
farmers.
Idaho state BLM director Martha Hahn has told employees
for their own safety to avoid encounters with Jon Marvel of the
Idaho Watershed Project.
The whitebark pine is in steep decline in the mountains on
the Idaho-Montana border.
The nonprofit Alliance for Justice has published a
handbook telling nonprofits how to use their funds to influence
legislation and lobbying.
According to a recent review of research in the "Western
North American Naturalist journal," Allison Jones of the Wild Utah
Project says grazing hurts arid ecosystems.
The Great Backyard Bird Count takes place Feb. 16-19,
2001, sponsored by the National Audubon Society and Cornell
University's Laboratory of Ornithology.
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