Electric utility deregulation and California's energy
crisis hold promise and peril for the rest of the West, as
conservationists seek to ensure that new energy systems are both
efficient and easy on the land and water and air.
Magazine
January 29, 2001
Electric utility deregulation and California's energy crisis hold promise and peril for the rest of the West, as conservationists seek to ensure that new energy systems are both efficient and easy on the land and water and air.
Feature
Some locals on southwestern Colorado are fighting an
electric utility's plans to upgrade the power line that runs
between Nucla and Telluride.
Sidebar
The largest wind farm in the world is being constructed on
the Oregon-Washington border near Walla Walla,
Washington.
Uncommon Westerners
The late Paul Fritz is remembered as a conservationist
whose years in the Park Service reflect a man who was independent
and outspoken.
The wilderness movement owes much of its beginning to a
man few people remember: a one-time Montana rancher and hardware
store owner named Cecil Garland.
Essays
High Country News' publisher discusses his years on the
board of the Delta-Montrose Electric Association, and the
surprising common ground that has developed between the electric
co-op and environmentalists like himself.
Perspective
His choices of Gale Norton for Interior Secretary and John
Ashcroft for Attorney General show that George W. Bush has already
abandoned bipartisanship.
Book Reviews
The BLM has released a new plan for managing off-highway
vehicle use on public lands across the country.
"The Serpent and the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in
Southwest Rock Art," by Dennis Slifer, takes a look at the sexual
imagery of much Southwestern rock art.
"The 2000 Directory of People of Color Environmental
Groups" gives information on over 600 organizations in the U.S.,
Mexico and Canada.
The AZ NoFee Coalition is protesting the user fee
demonstration program in the Red Rock area of Coconino National
Forest in Arizona.
Heard Around the West
Anti-environmental jargon; carless in Seattle; homeowners
vs. hikers on trail near Seattle; better cow-herding through
electricity; sagebrush seed rustling; half.com, Ore.; learning from
moose poop.
Dear Friends
Remember the Alamo (intern updates); 2000 index; hellos
from visitors; goodbye to Janet Kauffman.
News
At the very last minute, the Clinton administration
releases its final version of the national forest roadless
plan.
It's now a crime to kill or harm threatened salmon;
enviros say Puget Sound Energy harms salmon nests; tribes sue to
protect salmon; new and cleaner snowmobiles tested; BLM uses
helicopters to round up cattle on Grand
Staircase-Escalante.
The Clinton administration announces seven new national
monuments, six of them in the West, three days before George W.
Bush takes office.
Environmentalists fear that a listing freeze at the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service - which the agency blames on a
much-reduced budget - will lead to a host of endangered species
going extinct.
Four bills in the Colorado state Legislature promise to
give landowners more rights in the regulation of methane gas
development, but some activists remain skeptical.
Settlement of a recent lawsuit filed by Bluewater Network
may eliminate personal watercraft from the entire parks system by
2002.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dropped the swift
fox as a candidate for endangered species listing.
Reintroduced Mexican gray wolves are continuing to die
along the Arizona-New Mexico border, and environmentalists blame
ranchers for the latest deaths.
Environmentalists say the new Yellowstone bison management
plan put together by Montana and the Park Service won't really help
the bison much.
Environmentalists would like to overturn the Forest
Service's decision to let Colorado's Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort
start snowmaking.
Letters
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