Canadian activists trying to save Alberta's Castle-Crown
wildlands from rapid oil and gas development are frustrated by
their nation's lack of effective environmental protection
laws.
Magazine

October 8, 2001
Canadian activists trying to save Alberta's Castle-Crown wildlands from rapid oil and gas development are frustrated by their nation's lack of effective environmental protection laws.
Feature
Sidebar
Alberta, Canada, ranchers are frustrated by the
government's lack of oversight of the proliferating sour-gas plants
that some say harm health and livestock.
Essays
Before the U.S. tries to crack down on suspicious-looking
Muslims and Middle Easterners, it would do well to remember the
World War II era injustice of Japanese-American internment camps
like Minidoka, Idaho.
Book Reviews
In "Riders of the West," author Peter Iverson and
photographer Linda MacCannell follow the Indian rodeo circuit from
Arizona, through the Rocky Mountain West and into Canada.
In "Tony and the Cows," writer Will Baker investigates the
life and death of radical environmentalist Tony Merten, who was
accused of killing 34 cows and calves in New Mexico.
Three books on Western firefighting are reviewed: "The
Season of Fire" by David J. Strohmaier; "Year of the Fires" by
Stephen J. Pyne, and "Wildfire: A Reader," edited by Alianor
True.
Heard Around the West
Naked statue offends; sexy Olympic skaters; gender-based
shopping cart behavior; bugs bug windmills; Colo. Gov. goes to pot;
gay/lesbian group not welcome to adopt S.D. highway; Seattle
residents line up for toilets; don't run from cougars.
Dear Friends
Paonia tomatoes; Ray Ring is HCN's Northern Rockies
editor; Krissy Clark new production asst. for Radio HCN; Temple
poetry magazine ends; Williams (Ore.) Forest Fund; deaths of Cate
Gilles and Jim Corbett; West helps in WTC rescue work;
correction.
News
The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington,
D.C., have affected life in the West in many ways, bringing armed
guards to major dams and derailing the tourism industry, among
other impacts.
California ends electric deregulation; new wolf packs
found in Montana, Idaho; Forest Service overspends firefighting
budget; Western land trusts booming.
In the wake of the arson at Vail two years ago, Western
ski resorts have hired security staff to keep an eye out for
ecoterrorism.
A lawsuit from the Pacific Legal Foundation leads an
Oregon federal district judge to throw out the coho salmon's status
as protected under the Endangered Species Act.
In New Mexico, the Zuni Pueblo fights a coal strip-mine
planned for Zuni Salt Lake, a site sacred to the tribe.
The Army Corps of Engineers backs away from a revised
environmental impact statement that would have changed the way it
operates six Missouri River dams.
Residents of Packwood, Wash., want to attract tourists
with a rebuilt highway through Mount St. Helens National Monument,
but conservationists and scientists say the road would impact
wildlife and be dangerous and geologically unstable.
After decades of cleanup efforts, Denver, Colo., is about
to receive clean-air status from the Environmental Protection
Agency.
Opinion
An economic downturn in the West, following the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, might actually be good for the
region.
Letters
- Was Yellowstone’s deadliest wolf hunt in 100 years an inside job?
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Alaska’s Willow Project promises huge amounts of oil — and huge environmental impacts
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
- The fires below
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