The Bonneville Power Administration has long provided the
Northwest -- especially its aluminum industry -- with some of the
cheapest public power, but drought, endangered salmon and the
deregulated electricity market may just change all that.
Magazine

June 18, 2001
The Bonneville Power Administration has long provided the Northwest -- especially its aluminum industry -- with some of the cheapest public power, but drought, endangered salmon and the deregulated electricity market may just change all that.
Feature
Sidebar
Sumas, Wash., residents stopped permit approval of a
proposed gas-fired power plant their city council had welcomed, but
National Energy Service Co. will refile, addressing environmental
concerns, and this time it may go through.
Essays
An encounter at Grand Canyon with a young California
condor leads the writer to consider how - and why - we need to
bring back this very endangered species.
Book Reviews
The Pueblo of Zuni has built a state-of-the-art aviary for
disabled and domesticated golden eagles, which will provide the
feathers the tribe needs for cultural and religious
purposes.
John Brooner and Sandi Rizzo's film, "Alternative to
Madness," documents the annual spring anti-nuclear gathering on the
Nevada Test Site of the Western Shoshone and Shundahai
Network.
Janet Robideau of the Northern Cheyenne tribe founded the
Indian People's Action to advocate for Montana's Indians on issues
such as public education, law enforcement, affordable housing and
health care.
"Fresh, Organic and Native Foods of the Colorado Plateau"
is a directory to the farmers' markets and restaurants in the Four
Corners where such foods can be found.
Heard Around the West
Redi Kilowatt speaks out for energy conservation; satire
lists Cheney's tips for conservation; losing library books;
Rattlesnake Roundup in Alamogordo, N.M.; fun puns; N.M. State
Police vs. suspicious truck.
Dear Friends
Paonia's HCN board meeting discusses controversial Writers
on the Range, need for new accounting software, HCN's new media's
financial needs, and new story ideas; visitor/writer Ben Long
interviewed for Radio HCN; Gloria Flora injured in car
accident.
News
In conservative Idaho, Boise residents vote to tax
themselves to conserve open space and stave off sprawl in the
foothills.
Fran Mainella tapped to head NPS; Bruce Babbitt and
Ahmanson Ranch, Calif.; firefighters needed for summer; Rosebud
Sioux can't prevent hog farm; family buys 80 percent of Salt Lake
Tribune to keep Deseret News from taking it over.
In Kalispell, Mont., "shock jock" John Stokes owns radio
station KGEZ and uses it as a platform for his virulent, far-right
attacks on environmentalism and other issues.
The power shift in the Senate caused by John Jeffords'
exit from the GOP won't turn the world upside-down but does rock
it, as Western conservatives suddenly lose chairmanship of
committees.
The Utah Farm Bureau Federation is angry at University of
Utah professor Robert Schmidt, whose class recently studied the
biological and economic effects of a hypothetical wolf population
in the state.
The Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes on the Fort Belknap
reservation in Montana are split on the Montana Air National
Guard's proposal to drop dummy bombs on tribal trust
land.
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission wants to pull the
plug on Mexican wolf reintroduction.
Crow Indians fear that rock art will be opened up to
vandalism if Anschutz Exploration Co. drills an exploratory oil
well and upgrades an access road in Montana's Weatherman
Draw.
Colorado is no closer to managing its growth problems
after a ballot initiative failed and a dozen legislative bills
crashed into a partisan impasse.
A six-year fight over the Canoa Ranch south of Tucson
ended in compromise, with development to take place but 4,800 acres
of open space to be preserved.
Letters
- Yes, the drought really is that bad
- The Navajo Nation’s first economist takes a fresh view on development
- The Yurok Tribe is bringing condors home to Northern California skies
- What’s wrong with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and Preserve?
- Duwamish Tribe sues Interior in federal court, alleging sex discrimination
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