Tucson activists fight development of the desert's
ironwood forest.
Magazine
October 3, 1994
Tucson activists fight development of the desert's ironwood forest.
Feature
Essays
The 50 year birthday of Smokey Bear provokes ironic
retrospective of icon's career.
The Army's plans to incinerate deadly chemical weapons are
dangerous, expensive and irresponsible.
A writer argues that Southwestern writers refuse to tell
the truth about the contemporary West.
Book Reviews
Nevada State Division of Water Planning drafts new policy
to guide water-planning decisions.
Greater Ecosystem Alliance says restoring grizzly bear
populations won't interfere with recreationists.
Montana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights issues report on hate groups.
Letter-writing campaign stops development of privately
owned land in a national forest.
EPA may grant special protection to an aquifer in eastern
Washington and Western Idaho as "sole source" of drinking water for
the area.
The Environmental Defense Fund wants to protect the
Colorado River Basin.
Ecotrust works to save forests by encouraging sensible
economic development.
Park Service tries to develop a climbing management plan
that will satisfy Native Americans who regard Devils Tower as
sacred.
American Mountain Foundation tries to save Colorado's
"Fourteeners" from being loved to death by climbers.
Second International Temperate Forest Conference meets in
Missoula.
General Accounting Office report proves that environmental
nonprofits do not make money on land transactions.
Native American Writers Forum meets in
Telluride.
Sixth annual conference of Colorado Riparian Association
meets in Alamosa.
Chip Rawlins reviews A View of the River by Luna
Leopold.
Dear Friends
Earthquake, Research Fund drive, board meeting in Logan,
survey, interns Meg Krehbiel and Chip Giller.
News
Montana judge rules that reclamation at open-pit mines in
the state must include the pit itself.
Federal safety inspector Steve Jones is fired after
publicizing dangers of chemical weapons incineration at Tooele Army
Depot.
Democrat Mike Synar loses Oklahoma primary.
Chances for reform of the 1872 Mining Law this year recede
as Congress prepares to adjourn.
Atlas Minerals Co. says cleaning up uranium tailings near
Moab may prove too expensive.
The arrest of rancher Dwight Hammond for running cattle on
a wildlife refuge provokes a wise-use backlash in Oregon.
Rangers photograph wildlife so poached animals will be
easy to identify.
Convicted poacher Donald E. Lewis is allowed to keep his
illegal animal trophies.
Activists claim the Forest Service's revised timber sale
procedures make appeals almost impossible.
Letters
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