If the 1993 New Mexico Mining Act is allowed to work, it
could usher in a new era of mine reclamation in which mines
actually have to clean up and pay for the messes they leave
behind.
Magazine
December 3, 2001
If the 1993 New Mexico Mining Act is allowed to work, it could usher in a new era of mine reclamation in which mines actually have to clean up and pay for the messes they leave behind.
Feature
Sidebar
The art and science of mine reclamation is very
complicated, and so far there have not been enough long-term
successes to learn from.
A comparison of mine reclamation in Western states shows
the specifics of reclamation very widely in each state.
In an interview, former Department of Interior attorney
John Leshy talks about the long battle for reform of the 1872
Mining Law, and how the Bush administration has helped to set back
that reform.
Essays
Looking for petroglyphs and then watching a light show in
Las Vegas, Nev., leads the writer to think that people haven't
changed so much over the millennia.
Book Reviews
In "Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader," editor John
Bradley pulls together the stories of downwinders, veterans and
other Americans who have paid the price of this country's invisible
nuclear history.
Drury Gunn Carr's new documentary follows the Shoshone
Tribe's legal battle to change Wyoming water law and win its water
rights.
In "Woven on the Wind," an anthology edited by Gaydell
Collier, Linda Hasselstrom and Nancy Curtis, rural Western women
write about their friendships with other women.
A new edition of "Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage" by
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy, reports the fascinating findings
of the University of Arizona's "Garbage Project."
In "The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona
Grassland," biologist Carl and Jane Bock describe their field work
in the Appleton-Whittell Ranch, where no grazing has occurred since
the 1960s.
Two new books - "River Running West: The Life of John
Wesley Powell" by Donald Worster and "Seeing Things Whole: The
Essential John Wesley Powell" by William deBuys - offer a new look
at Powell's life, legacy and writings.
Heard Around the West
Doctor sells his strip clubs; it's still hard to dance in
Utah; moose vs. swingset; high country nudes in Vail fund raiser;
bigfoot sightings; California teenager buys controversial cattle
impounded in Nevada.
Dear Friends
Change from the inside out; remember Cate Gilles; more
letters, please; Renny Russell and "On The Loose"; visitors;
Herbert Hoover on water; sad news about Tommie Bell's
death.
News
An industry suit is rejected, upholding - at least for the
moment - former Forest Service Supervisor Gloria Flora's ban on
drilling in Montana's Rocky Mountain Front.
A judge's ruling has removed Oregon coastal coho from
protection under the Endangered Species Act, and sent the National
Marine Fisheries Service scrambling to rethink its hatchery
policy.
Sierra Nevada Framework upheld; Rebecca Watson, Interior
Dept., land and minerals mgmt; lawsuit on president's authority to
create new monuments dismissed; Bureau of Indian Trust Assets
Mgmt.; Torres-Martinez Band of Cahuilla Indians, Salton
Sea.
The Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition's struggle to keep the
stars visible has led to the city's designation as the first
"International Dark-Sky City."
The Mormon Church is working to purchase a national
historic site along the Oregon Trail in Wyoming, where nearly 200
Mormon pioneers died in the winter of 1856.
The Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New
Mexico will not be managed by any government agency, but by a
president-appointed board of nine trustees, who are still trying to
figure out their new job.
The former mining town of Silverton, Colo., has put its
economic hopes in plans for a new but old-fashioned small-scale,
low-key ski area, but some worry the area is too avalanche-prone to
be safe.
Disappearing jobs in the hard-hit apple orchards of
eastern Washington have led to a flood of displaced migrant workers
moving west toward Seattle.
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