The problem of controlling Africanized bees is now
widespread, and some are taking advantage of the frightening
invasion to earn a good living.
Magazine
June 24, 2002
The problem of controlling Africanized bees is now widespread, and some are taking advantage of the frightening invasion to earn a good living.
Feature
Sidebar
Among other tasks, research entomologist Justin Schmidt
counts bee stings in dead animals at the Carl Hayden Bee Research
Center in Tucson, Ariz.
Essays
Personal tale of a biologist in southeastern Idaho who had
a mountain lion as her guardian during a bout with the
flu.
Writers on the Range
Lani Lamming of Wyoming leases goats to conscientious
landowners who have discovered the benefits of organic weed
control.
Heard Around the West
Jogger Abigail Thomas keeps cool during Yellowstone bear
encounter; waitress keeps oversized tip from drunken cowboy; People
magazine has nuclear waste going to Utah; prairie dogs; planners
are communists?; Aspen Equestrian Estates allows no horses;
Barbi
Dear Friends
Colorado wildfires threaten homes and forests throughout
the state; welcome Paul Gibb, new business manager, wife Greta and
twin baby boys; favorable reviews for Radio HCN; visitors;
correction.
News
A federal court jury on June 11 found FBI agents and
Oakland police guilty of framing Earth First! activists Darryl
Cherney and the late Judi Bari, accusing them of knowingly
possessing the car bomb that exploded, injuring Bari, as part of
their fight aga
Zuni Indians worry about NM's Fence Lake coal mine; Santa
Clara Pueblo's Black Mesa golf course; Trophy Mtn. Elk Ranch in
northern Colo. restocks after slaughter from chronic wasting
disease; Wyo. moves forward to manage wolves.
Protection for wildlife in the Siskiyou National Forest is
gone now that BLM and USFS have reopened 90 percent of lands to new
mining claims before environmental studies are completed.
Utah Rep. Jim Hansen proposes half a million acres of
wilderness in western Utah, but in the same amendment would dump
hazardous waste in the nearby Skull Valley Goshute
Reservation.
The growth boundary to limit sprawl on Colorado's Front
Range, originated five years ago by concerned business leaders,
developers and government officials, has been revised periodically
to accommodate more growth, which critics say defeats the
purpose.
Following a lawsuit by a coalition of Indian tribes,
environmental groups and private citizens, the Sierra Army Depot
has stopped burning and blasting old munitions near Herlong,
Calif., and is looking to burn and blast elsewhere.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has again changed
its opinion and will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to begin
dredging the Columbia River, despite environmentalists' concerns
about the wild salmon.
Friends of Mount Hood is fighting the Mount Hood Meadows
Development Corp., which wants to build a ski resort that threatens
pear orchards and cattle ranches on the northeastern flanks of
Oregon's Mount Hood.
Some foresters who are using responsible environmental
practices in order to be "green-certified" are disappointed by the
lack of return for their admirable efforts.
The proposed Wild Sky Wilderness Area northeast of Seattle
could be a model for future wilderness designations, based on its
diversity of tourism-based opportunities along with good
environmental stewardship.
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