Along New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande, pueblo tribes are
working to bring back the disappearing bosque - the cottonwood
gallery forest that once lined the river, offering habitat, shade
and leafy bounty to a dry landscape.
Magazine
November 19, 2001
Along New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande, pueblo tribes are working to bring back the disappearing bosque - the cottonwood gallery forest that once lined the river, offering habitat, shade and leafy bounty to a dry landscape.
Feature
Uncommon Westerners
Frank C. Craighead Jr. is remembered as a famous grizzly
bear authority, an environmentalist and a writer who lived
consistently with his principles.
Essays
Within the American Oil Tribe, oil matters so much and yet
means so little that we refuse to even think about the fact that we
are going to run out of it.
The writer muses about his good fortune in falling in love
with an Arizona landscape that nobody else seems to have
noticed.
Heard Around the West
Troublesome book makes it hard to get on an airplane;
helicopter snack flight in Albuquerque; pig judge sounds off; Dutch
oven is Utah's Official Cooking Pot; square watermelons from Japan;
honeymoon domestic abuse; journalists have lost flair.
Dear Friends
Balmy weather; welcome to new assistant editor Matt
Jenkins and new assistant business manager Gretchen Aston-Puckett;
good books, and visitors.
News
Yellowstone seasonal ranger Bob Jackson is first told to
be quiet and then sent home for talking about the problem of
hunters using salt licks on the park's boundaries to lure deer, elk
and grizzly.
Cheap Canadian lumber imports; Jack Blackwell regional
forester in CA; Biologist Gene Schoonveld fears research spread
CWD; ELF bombs BLM wild horse facility near Susanville, CA; Colo.
voters derail monorail proposal.
Western public-land rangers are being pulled from their
regular jobs and reassigned back East, guarding federal buildings
in Washington, D.C., and serving as temporary sky
marshals.
Foreign competition, low prices and increasing labor costs
have sent the U.S. sheep industry into a decline that is felt
especially in Idaho.
The Rural Resort Region, a coalition of five Colorado
counties, is pressing for a new guest-worker program to legitimize
the immigrant workers needed by their resorts.
A proposed high-level nuclear waste storage area on the
Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in western Utah is coming under
attack from some tribal critics as well as other
opponents.
Cleaning up asbestos-laden soil around a warehouse owned
by the Minot, N.D., Park District may cost the district a lot, with
the previous owner long gone and the source of the asbestos, W.R.
Grace, now bankrupt.
Mike Delamore of the Bureau of Reclamation is trying to
solve what seems an impossible problem: draining the salt building
up on California's farmland while protecting water quality in the
San Francisco Bay Delta.
In Oregon's Willamette Valley, electricity for 65 homes
will be produced from "bio-gas" from the manure of 400 Holstein
cows.
For the third time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has
refused to grant the Bonneville cutthroat trout a place on the
endangered species list.
An Oregon irrigation district has agreed to breach the
Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River.
The state of Washington is considering logging circles of
land set aside in 1997 as habitat for endangered spotted
owls.
Environmentalists say the Interior Department yanked the
teeth from Bruce Babbitt's new set of hard-rock mining regulations
when it decided to go with a much-watered-down version.
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