Patricia Mulroy, general manager of Las Vegas Valley Water
District and Southern Nevada, Water Authority, has kept water
coming to her booming desert city, but environmental concerns and
water-quality problems are signs that her water empire can't last
forever.
Magazine

April 9, 2001
Patricia Mulroy, general manager of Las Vegas Valley Water District and Southern Nevada, Water Authority, has kept water coming to her booming desert city, but environmental concerns and water-quality problems are signs that her water empire can't last forever.
Feature
Uncommon Westerners
Writer and organic farmer Donella Meadows is remembered as
a journalist, and much more.
Essays
An Indian writer wonders how the stereotype of stoic
Indians ever got started, given the natural humor and wit of Indian
peoples of all tribes.
Book Reviews
A new book, "Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing
Race" by Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, and a
documentary film, "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the
American Indian" by Anne Makepeace, discuss the controversial
photographer.
Robert Fillmore's new guidebook, "The Geology of the
Parks, Monuments and Wildlands of Southern Utah," helps readers
decipher the complicated landscapes of southern Utah.
"Wild in the City: A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas,"
edited by Michael Houck and M.J. Cody, gathers maps, site guides,
and essays celebrating the city's wildlife and preserved
landscapes.
"Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado Honeymoon of
Glen and Bessie Hyde" by Brad Dimock tries to retrace the journey
and unravel the mystery behind a 70-year-old tragedy.
Heard Around the West
Fancy toilets of "green built" resort; California vs.
Washington; Lewis & Clark and Jet Skis; Winnebagos and floating
condos; Michael Tomlinson vs. applicances; Berkeley, Calif., honors
"companion animals."
Dear Friends
Putting California on HCN's map; visitors; death of
conservationist and musician Paul Todd.
News
Environmentalists are reeling from the Bush
administration's rollbacks of many of Clinton's laws and policies
affecting water quality, mining, endangered salmon and national
forests.
Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck resigns; Northern
Rockies' spring mushroom boom; Yosemite's public bus system; new
protection for California deserts; wolves may move to
Utah.
Some critics say a proposed geothermal power plant
threatens the newly designated Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon
Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area in northwestern
Nevada.
Jim Trees plans to replace a 140-year-old diversion dam in
a Zion National Park wilderness study area with an "environmentally
friendly" weir just outside the park boundary.
Critics say a massive salvage-logging operation in the
wildfire-burned Sula State Forest, Mont., won't leave enough snags
and downed trees for wildlife and forest rejuvenation.
In New Mexico, environmentalists are aghast at a new law,
approved by legislators of both parties, that gives counties
'police power' to cut trees in national forests threatened by
fire.
Local critics are working to stop a much-touted "model"
development planned for the Ahmanson Ranch on the edge of Southern
California's Santa Monica Mountains.
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