Back in the '70s, Montana led the way in progressive
environmental legislation, but now with its economy faltering,
those laws are being eviscerated, and environmentalists need to
find a new strategy.
Magazine
December 17, 2001
Back in the '70s, Montana led the way in progressive environmental legislation, but now with its economy faltering, those laws are being eviscerated, and environmentalists need to find a new strategy.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, activist Bob Decker talks about
Montana's environmental groups and the struggle they face in their
state.
In his own words, Libby, Mont., accountant Wayne Hirst
talks about how Montana environmentalists went wrong.
The Northern Plains Resource Council is unique among
Montana environmental groups in that it was founded by cattle
ranchers, who still make up half the membership.
Essays
A ramble through cyberspace paints an interesting
"cybermap" of the West on the Web.
Book Reviews
London-based Sustainable Forestry Management will get
carbon dioxide emissions credits for funding the Flathead Indian
Reservation's work replanting ponderosa pines on 250 burned acres
of the Montana reservation.
Conservationists say a draft environmental impact
statement on Northern Plains grasslands opens up too much land to
the oil and gas industry.
The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology has released a CD
called "The Diversity of Animal Sounds," which features the sounds
of a variety of creatures from all over the world.
Matthew Testa's new documentary, "The Buffalo War," looks
from all different sides at the controversial killing of
Yellowstone National Park's straying buffalo.
In their new book, "Post-Cowboy Economics: Pay and
Prosperity in the New American West," Univ. of Mont. economists
Thomas Michael Power and Richard N. Barrett offer an optimistic but
fundamentally flawed view of Montana's economy.
Heard Around the West
Milk is cool in Idaho; cheese artiste Cosimo Cavallaro's
Powell, Wyo., project; suspect caught in manure; disappearing N.M.;
Utah photographer Michael Fatali sets fires under Delicate Arch;
expensive Aspen babysitting; bear-feeder's car fed on by
bears.
Dear Friends
Winter break; Ray Ring writes on Montana; good books and
such; visitors; Radio HCN update; HCN gets honorable mention for
John B. Oakes award.
Muriel "Tommie" Bell, wife and partner of HCN founder Tom
Bell, is fondly remembered as a strong, loving, sustaining
woman.
News
The Quechan tribe is fighting the Bush administration's
revival of a controversial mine in California's southern Mojave
Desert, where Glamis Gold Ltd. plans to mine gold on a site sacred
to the tribe.
ANWR drilling plan derailed in Congress; four dams on
Lower Snake won't be breached; Montana game rancher Lew Wallace
says he'll shoot his elk; Rocky Flats cleanup hits South Carolina
roadblock; lawless Thanksgiving in Imperial Sand Dunes,
Calif.
Arizona State Parks is fighting a proposal resort near
Benson, Ariz., which some fear could harm the nearby Kartchner
Caverns.
A General Accounting Office audit recommends that Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham wait several years to make a decision on
the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, until studies are complete
and serious questions answered.
Activist Martha Hall accuses area outfitters of trashing
northern Washington's Pasayten Wilderness, which has been
discovered and overrun by recreationists.
The Quincy Library Group plans a lawsuit to challenge the
Sierra Nevada Framework, which the group says has "killed" its own
collaborative plan for national forest management.
The Oregon Department of Forestry wants to charge
protesters for timber that can't be cut in forests such as the
Tillamook, where tree-sitting activists have held longtime
protests.
Exotic pike have reappeared in California's Lake Davis,
just 18 months after the lake was poisoned in a controversial plan,
and now the state is considering underwater explosions to keep the
pike from heading downstream.
In Park City, Utah, county planners are fighting to stop
Bruce Daley's planned hilltop home, and Daley is fighting back with
a lawsuit against Summit County.
Federal biologists say the threatened Yellowstone grizzly
population is healthy and increasing, but conservationists say the
bears still face many long-term risks.
The California state assembly says developers will have to
prove they have water rights before they receive final approval for
new subdivisions.
Citing internal disagreement, a coalition has abandoned
plans to put an initiative to preserve Arizona state trust lands on
the 2002 ballot.
Letters
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
- Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
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