El Paso, Texas, is dependent on the underground waters of
the Hueco Bolson, but as the population grows and the bolson
declines, both the city and its sister across the border, Ciudad
Juarez, are turning to the already overtaxed Rio Grande.
Magazine
March 12, 2001
El Paso, Texas, is dependent on the underground waters of the Hueco Bolson, but as the population grows and the bolson declines, both the city and its sister across the border, Ciudad Juarez, are turning to the already overtaxed Rio Grande.
Feature
Sidebar
Many of the Mexican and Mexican-American residents of
Texas' border colonias lost their jobs when NAFTA moved a lot of
industry south of the border.
Book Reviews
In "True Tales from Another Mexico," journalist Sam
Quinones explores the "unofficial Mexico" and its stubborn
innovators, risk-takers and rebels, whose stories seldom make the
news.
New Mexico rancher Sid Goodloe has started the Southern
Rockies Agricultural Land Trust to convince his neighbors that
conservation easements to preserve private land are a fine
idea.
The Roman Catholic bishops of the Pacific Northwest have
released a long-awaiting pastoral letter on the duty to protect the
Columbia River: "The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation
and the Common Good."
The new Boulder Area Sustainability Information Network
(BASIN) Web site gives water quality and other environmental
information on Boulder, Colo.'s Boulder Creek watershed.
Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute's conference on land use
will be held April 19-20 at the University of Denver.
Perspective
A visit to Yellowstone in winter leads to encounters with
park employees eager for (and snowmobilers vehemently against) the
coming banishment of snowmobiles from the national park.
Heard Around the West
Sacajawea and York honored at last; wind farm on Nev. Test
Site; 60 years stealing electricity; housing prices, traffic woes
in N. Calif.; houses in Jackson Hole; drivers can't drink in Wyo.;
parking ticket scofflaws in Denver; Utah atheists on war
path.
Dear Friends
"Divided waters" lead story; Sandy Tolan's radio advice;
reader feedback; HCN business folk; congratulations to Chip Giller
and correction.
News
Conservationists say Salt Lake City's nomination of a
cartoon coyote as mascot to the 2002 Winter Olympics is
hypocritical, given Utah's coyote-killing bounty program.
In Oregon, a plan to selectively log the Clatsop and
Tillamook state forests is supposed to improve habitat for the
threatened northern spotted owl, but conservationists have their
doubts.
Analyzing election's growth-related measures; Gale Norton
will keep new monuments, with some changes; agencies ordered to
study antelope in Ariz.; tentative agreement on Jarbidge River road
in Utah; Pueblo activists fight proposed cement plant.
The tribes of the Tulalip Indian Reservation, Wash.,
alarmed by sprawling development, have made an agreement with the
county to preserve reservation land, but some say it isn't strong
enough.
Some Navajos fear the tribe's planned Antelope Point
Marina in Arizona will harm archaeological and ceremonial
sites.
Grand Canyon's plan to cut traffic in the park by building
a light-rail train system has been derailed because of its cost,
and the park has been told to use buses instead.
A Supreme Court decision has stripped federal protection
from about one-third of the nation's wetlands.
Protesters in Salt Lake City charge that the federal
government has yet to fully compensate people in Utah, Nevada and
Idaho whose health was harmed by the nuclear-bomb testing that
started 50 years ago.
The Colorado Natural Areas Program, which has been
cataloging rare animal and plant habitat and geological and
fossil-rich formations, may end this summer when its state funding
dries up.
Environmentalists say a bill intended to speed up the dam
relicensing process at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
might lead to inadequate environmental assessments.
Cody, Wyo., historian Bob Edgar fears that his Old Trail
Town, a "virtual" frontier settlement created using relocated
historic buildings and cabins, is threatened by the city's plan to
buy and develop nearby open space.
With the Bonneville Power Administration saying that it
can't meet demand over the next five years, Washington's Gov. Gary
Locke has announced a plan to encourage energy efficiency,
conservation and diversification.
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