Across the Interior West, as the sagebrush sea recedes
under the environmental stress of human impacts, its emblematic
bird, the sage grouse, is also in decline, and no one seems to know
what to do about it.
Magazine
February 4, 2002
Across the Interior West, as the sagebrush sea recedes under the environmental stress of human impacts, its emblematic bird, the sage grouse, is also in decline, and no one seems to know what to do about it.
Feature
Sidebar
Male sage grouse gather at leks to dance in front of
females in elaborate mating displays.
Colorado rancher Brad Phelps believes that cattle and sage
grouse can live together, but biologists, environmentalists and
other ranchers continue to argue over exactly what impact grazing
has.
Book Reviews
In his new book, "This Sovereign Land," Daniel Kemmis
argues that it is time for the national government to give local
governments more power over public lands in the West.
In "Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert," Terry
Tempest Williams creates an unusual, poetic pocket guide to the
redrock wilderness of southern Utah.
Perspective
The battle over storing nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca
Mountain is heating up in Congress as well as in Nevada and the
West.
Writers on the Range
Blackfeet tribal member and banker Elouise Cobell writes
about her legal battle to make the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
Interior Department accountable for millions of dollars missing
from Indian trust funds.
A Utah resident wonders why so many non-Mormons have such
weird ideas about members of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
Heard Around the West
Shipping bee queens; red whine and the gnome project; Area
51 guards on strike; nicer employers in Mexico; Las Vegas showgirls
wear even less; mnemonic for Grand Canyon geology; plane spotters
unpopular; Utah subs for Mars.
Dear Friends
Spreading the News; more opinions; HCN meeting in Las
Cruces, N.M., hears about life on the border; new interns Julie
Elliott and Sarah Wright.
Legendary wilderness advocate Celia Hunter dies at the age
of 82 in her Fairbanks, Alaska, log cabin.
News
Both environmental critics and Bush supporters complain
that the Republican administration is neglecting, even ignoring,
the West.
Utah's Skull Valley nuclear storage site; Wyoming Game
& Fish bails on black-tailed prairie dog plan; lynx-hair fracas
continues; Arizona wants to sell power to New Mexico; La Verkin,
Utah, repeals anti-U.N. ordinance.
In Montana's Centennial Valley, the Beaverhead-Deerlodge
forest is delaying a decision to manage as wilderness Mount
Jefferson, an area increasingly popular with, and impacted by,
snowmobiles.
The Colorado Wildlife Commission wants to prevent the
spread of chronic wasting disease by requiring all elk imports to
be certified as disease-free for 60 months.
In Boundary Creek, Idaho, locals are at odds over the
flooding of good farmland to create wetlands for the new Boundary
Creek Wildlife Management Area.
A revision of Grand Canyon National Park's River
Management Plan is back on track after former superintendent Robert
Arnberger dropped it in 1997 because of the controversy it
aroused.
Letters
- Wyoming’s ‘Bird Lady’ offers a haven for injured birds
- Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield
- A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
- New bill would permanently protect 130,000 acres of Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
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