For 30 years, activists have been working to remove two
dams and restore salmon runs on Washington's Elwha River, and now
the goal is in sight - if the money comes through from
Congress.
Magazine
September 24, 2001
For 30 years, activists have been working to remove two dams and restore salmon runs on Washington's Elwha River, and now the goal is in sight -- if the money comes through from Congress.
Feature
Sidebar
Robert Lundahl's new film, "Unconquering the Last
Frontier," explores the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's history with
Washington's Elwha River and its salmon.
In his own words, Orville Campbell, who spent 30 years
working for the companies that own the Elwha dams, talks about the
movement to take down those dams.
On river trips, Richard Ingebretsen of the Glen Canyon
Institute talks about Lake Powell and introduces people to the idea
of removing Glen Canyon Dam and resurrecting the Colorado River's
drowned canyons.
Essays
Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt pushed
collaboration as a way to save the Endangered Species Act, an
approach that has helped to strengthen this strong and flexible
law.
A hunter's close encounter with grizzlies in Wyoming
breeds respect for the great bear that is the true lord of the
forest.
Heard Around the West
Fish falls on firefighter; Seattle mansions; drag queens
in Idaho Falls; Maroon Bells restroom gets makeover; Albuquerque
Mayor Jim Baca vs. opponent's hairdo; Denver Jack-O-Launching; how
not to respond to a DUI; Fresno landfill not historic
landmark.
Dear Friends
Former HCN intern Karen Mockler and freelancer Mike Stark
win journalism war; new interns Erika Trautman and Mason Adams;
rabble-rousers and other visitors.
The terrorist acts of Sept. 11 touched everyone in the HCN
office, and some of our friends and families were
eyewitnesses.
News
A rare combination of ideal conditions leads to Idaho's
biggest salmon and steelhead runs in 25 years.
New Mexico presents Phelps Dodge with a plan that could
cost the company $759 billion to close out and clean up its Chino
Mine near Silver City, the state's largest.
Utah's Olympics could be cancelled after terrorist acts;
16,000 acres near Scottsdale, AZ reclassified as open space;
Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Basin Superfund suit partly resolved; Lewis
& Clark bicentennial; retirement age for firefighters
raised.
Wyoming rancher Brad Mead gives up his 2,000-acre grazing
lease in Grand Teton National Park.
Sudden oak death, a disease which has killed thousands of
native oak trees in Northern California, has appeared in southern
Oregon.
Montana greens are worried that recent legislative changes
to the state's 1971 Montana Environmental Policy Act will make the
law almost impossible to enforce.
The Eagle Creek timber sale in Mount Hood National Forest
near Portland, Ore., is a mecca for protesters, but some say the
sale is environmentally sound, and the protests are much ado about
nothing.
Spurred by a lawsuit over the needs of the threatened bald
eagle, the Bureau of Reclamation agrees to give some water to six
wildlife refuges in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and
California.
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