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The buzz business

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

The buzz business
The problem of controlling Africanized bees is now widespread, and some are taking advantage of the frightening invasion to earn a good living.
Ray Ring June 24, 2002 From the print edition

Sidebar

2,997 ... 2,998 ... 2,999
Among other tasks, research entomologist Justin Schmidt counts bee stings in dead animals at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, Ariz.
Ray Ring June 24, 2002 From the print edition

Essays

In the lion's eye
Personal tale of a biologist in southeastern Idaho who had a mountain lion as her guardian during a bout with the flu.
Miriam L. Austin Essay June 24, 2002 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Restoring the West, goat by goat
Lani Lamming of Wyoming leases goats to conscientious landowners who have discovered the benefits of organic weed control.
Ed Marston Opinion Essay June 24, 2002 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

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
Betsy Marston June 24, 2002 From the print edition

Dear Friends

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.
Ray Ring June 24, 2002 From the print edition

News

Earth First!er Judi Bari avenged at last
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
Josh Richman June 24, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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.
Matt Jenkins June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Temporary protection yanked in the Siskiyou
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.
Laura Paskus June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Is this wilderness perverted?
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.
Michelle Nijhuis June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Growth boundary grows
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.
Jon Waldman and Erika Trautman June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Bomb blasting goes bust
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.
Crystal Mustric June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Columbia dredging closer
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.
Laura Paskus June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Mount Hood recreation may go big time
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.
Ted Katauskas June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Can green-certified lumber make it?
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.
Jane Braxton Little June 24, 2002 From the print edition
A wide-angled wilderness
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.
Jon Waldman June 24, 2002 From the print edition

Letters

Wolf reintroduction balances nature
Rob Edward and Tina Arapkiles June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Zero sympathy for hunters
Bernard Foy June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Predation a risk ranchers must accept
Leland E. Stanley, M.D. June 24, 2002 From the print edition
To say nothing of cruelty
Carol Carpenter June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Cross lawsuit divisive, petty
Myles B. Traphagen June 24, 2002 From the print edition
Review gives only one view
Linda Driskill June 24, 2002 From the print edition
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