When the dairy industry invades rural Idaho, communities
face the dilemma of what to do with the waste cows produce. The
huge dairy operations are contaminating local air and
water.
Magazine
April 15, 2002
When the dairy industry invades rural Idaho, communities face the dilemma of what to do with the waste cows produce. The huge dairy operations are contaminating local air and water.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, Dean Swager talks about how he moved his
dairy farm from Southern California's Chino Valley to Idaho's Magic
Valley.
In her own words, Sena McKnight describes how she and her
family were forced out of their home next to the Dutch Touch Dairy,
due to the nauseating odors and decline in quality of
life.
In his own words, Bill Stoltzfus compares his small
(85-cow) dairy to the huge ones that have taken over the Magic
Valley, and admits that dairy farmers who created problems with
odor and manure must now take responsibility and deal with
them.
Essays
Shielded in anonymity, the "King Clone," a creosote bush
identified as the "oldest living thing on Earth," can be found on a
dirt road south of Barstow, Calif., where it continues to keep a
low profile about the many benefits of its properties.
Book Reviews
To protect ranchers with conservation easements and
preserve local cultural and natural resources, the South Park
Heritage Area Board, formed in Park County, Colo., discourages
developers and welcomes tourists.
Navajo silversmithing is the subject of a book, "Navajo
Spoons," by Cindra Kline, exploring Indian artistry and the
souvenir trade.
A family-owned business, Cordova and Sons, in Cuba City,
N.M., collects and recycles used tires for landscaping and building
projects.
Mary Sojourner has written 50 vignettes in "Bonelight:
Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest," a book of personal stories
revolving around her hometown of Flagstaff, Ariz.
Mark Todd has written a book of lyrical poetry about
everyday, outdoor life on a ranch.
Ten years after being given federal protection under the
Endangered Species Act, Pacific salmon still swim in
pesticide-laced water, says a report by the Northwest Coalition for
Alternatives to Pesticides.
Writers on the Range
Developers engage in "green washing" when they claim
willing participation in consensus to save Dry Lake.
Heard Around the West
Due to all the volunteer workers, Salt Lake City's Winter
Olympics may actually turn a profit; Bush administration slashes
funds on solar energy while condoning oil and gas; Army Secretary
Thomas E. White sells $7.8 million Aspen home at loss; wayward
coy
Dear Friends
A metamorphic moment in the paper's history as HCN
produces a story with Radio HCN; visitors; HCN business of the
month; Mary Sojourner to hold reading in Paonia; upcoming
environmental summit; Diane Sylvain's back surgery; April Fool
correction.
News
In an effort to help endangered salmon on the Columbia
River, Caspian terns that prey on the fish are being lured to
different habitat.
Two proposed power plants in Post Falls, Idaho, have
locals, business leaders and environmentalists coming together to
block what could have a detrimental effect on the drinking water
for more than 400,000 people in northern Idaho and eastern
Washington.
Forest Service revokes its approval of Rock Creek Mine in
Montana; Nevada's fight against Yucca Mountain may be doomed; ARCO
will pay $87 million to treat toxic water in Butte, Mont.'s
Berkeley Pit; deadline approaches to ban Jet Skis in national
parks; A
Lawsuits filed by angry developers have forced the federal
government to re-examine the Endangered Species Act of 1978
regarding critical habitat.
A class-action lawsuit could force five former mining
companies to pay for a medical monitoring program detecting health
effects from lead and arsenic contamination for 100,000 people in
the Coeur d'Alene Basin.
Designer Ralph Lauren's proposal to swap land with the
U.S. Forest Service near Ridgway, Colo., has caused a stir among
neighbors, who claim the new public road would disrupt wildlife,
create forest fires and bring vehicles closer to
wilderness.
The city of Portland, Ore., drafts a proposal to aid
endangered fish through building and landscape regulations to
prevent eroding stream banks on 19,000 acres of residential
property.
A land-exchange referendum on the November ballot might
shift the borders of the Sonoran Desert and Ironwoods national
monuments, designated by President Clinton before he left office,
in an effort to resolve power companies' rights-of-way.
Despite efforts by the Colorado Division of Wildlife to
control it, chronic wasting disease, the fatal brain malady in elk
and deer, has spread to two illegally penned wild deer near Craig,
Colo.
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