The brine-shrimp industry of Great Salt Lake has helped
put that misunderstood ecosystem under a microscope; can the lake
be saved from its history of abuse and a rapidly increasing
population around it?
Magazine
April 29, 2002
The brine-shrimp industry of Great Salt Lake has helped put that misunderstood ecosystem under a microscope; can the lake be saved from its history of abuse and a rapidly increasing population around it?
Feature
Sidebar
Activists continue to fight against dams on the Bear
River, one of three sources that feed Utah's Great Salt Lake, in
their push for stricter water conservation along the Wasatch
Front.
Environmentalists and SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson denounce
the Legacy Highway, a disputed 14-mile road that would connect Salt
Lake City to Farmington, arguing that it would destroy wetlands,
encourage sprawl, and degrade the Front's already murky
air.
Essays
The writer reminisces about the time he was a teen-age boy
and encountered "nature" with Leviathan, his 1966 Pontiac LeMans,
on the plains east of Aurora, Colo., which he discovered was a
place of rugged beauty.
Writers on the Range
When an article appears in Men's Journal proclaiming his
home town in the "top 10" of best places to live, the author can't
understand what criteria the decision was based on.
Book Reviews
This year's Mountainfilm festival, held May 24-27 in
Telluride, Colo., features 25 films that celebrate mountains and
the people who love them.
In "Living in the Country Growing Weird," Nevada potter
Dennis Parks celebrates his exit from the rat race by conveying the
challenges of rural existence.
A study by Numbers USA, "Weighing Sprawl Factors in Large
U.S. Cities," analyzes relative contributions of land-use decisions
and population growth to sprawl in the nation's 100 largest
urbanized areas.
Duff Wilson's book, "Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a
Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret," investigates a
local agricultural chemicals provider who attempted to pass toxic
waste off as recycled fertilizer.
Wildlife such as deer, elk and bighorn sheep can find
water using an artificial reservoir, the "Wildlife Saloon," a new
invention developed by Cedaredge, Colo., geologist Greg
Hunt.
Heard Around the West
Alligators on treadmills embarrass researchers; Colorado's
state mineral must be right color; Montana coyote hunter shoots up
plane's wing; ticked-off bees attack in Oregon; Basalt, Colo.,
turns down second-home buyers; 107-year-old Jessie Reimers of
Lewi
Dear Friends
Busy ex-interns; staffers clean up adopted Highway 133;
former intern David Havlick and HCN associate journalist Niels
Sparre Nokkentved publish books; new senior editor Lolly Merrell;
European readers critical of wolf management.
News
Cottonwood trees in Utah's Zion National Park may vanish
in the next few decades, according to a study by the park and the
Grand Canyon Trust that recommends removal of flood-protection
stone levees as a way to save the trees.
The fourth year of a crippling drought throughout the West
is potential for trouble, not only for farmers, but wildlife and
the human population, as well.
Off-roaders in the Mojave Desert must yield to desert
tortoises; BLM reverses its ban on four-wheelers in California's
Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area; Forest Service denies Boy
Scout camp on White River Forest near Aspen; Forest Service cancels
Eagle
Conservation groups want to phase out 23 elk feedgrounds
managed by the state, claiming they are expensive breeding grounds
for disease.
The Bush administration aims to overhaul the Clinton-bred
forestry plan, and environmentalists pledge to oppose efforts to
dilute it.
Several communities surrounding Yellowstone National Park
have passed regulations banning grizzlies, wolves and other
"unacceptable species," even though the laws are
unenforceable.
Letters
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