As the Wilderness Act nears its 40th birthday, it takes a
new kind of wheeling and dealing to protect wild lands, and
there’s no better place to see the new face of the movement
than Las Vegas, Nev.
Magazine
March 3, 2003
As the Wilderness Act nears its 40th birthday, it takes a new kind of wheeling and dealing to protect wild lands, and there’s no better place to see the new face of the movement than Las Vegas, Nev. Also in this issue: The Border Patrol wants to erect 249 miles of fences along the Arizona-Mexico border, and some environmentalists are worried about their impact on desert wildlife.
Feature
Sidebar
Wilderness on the move
Peaks and valleys: Protected wilderness by year
Nevada rancher Cal Baird wants to protect local wild lands
as wilderness.
Emery County Commissioner Randy Johnson thought he could
come up with a local alternative for protecting Utah’s San
Rafael Swell, but angry ORVers attacked his proposed
monument.
Editor's Note
Wilderness has never been as simple a thing as it seems in
our dreams, and in these days it’s up to all of us to work
together – and often compromise – on
legislation.
Perspective
In these duct-tape, Code Orange days, only a small
political elite seems to be keeping an eye on the
environment.
Book Reviews
Thank you to the supporters of the "Spreading the News
Campaign"
Writers on the Range
One mountain-biker and wilderness activist believes there
are places where his beloved bike doesn’t belong, and that
wilderness is one of them.
Another mountain biker says wilderness activists would get
a lot more accomplished if they would give mountain bikes a place
in the wilderness.
Heard Around the West
Wyoming funds contraceptives for its coyotes – but
not its women
Dear Friends
February board meeting in wintry Fort Collins, Colo.;
thanks for helping our Spreading the News Campaign; we can’t
get away with anything (corrections & emendations)
News
The Border Patrol wants to erect 249 miles of fences along
the Arizona-Mexico border, and some environmentalists are worried
about their impact on desert wildlife.
New Mexico keeps cockfighting and dogfighting; western
sage grouse not listed; too many Mormon handcart pullers in
Wyoming; Lake Powell and other reservoirs dropping; and Colorado
studies "Big Straw" and "logging for water."
New management plans for 10 national grasslands in the
Dakotas, Wyoming and Nebraska are getting flak from every
direction.
Ranchers, environmentalists and other locals are fighting
plans for the largest railroad construction project in a century,
which would cross national grasslands in Wyoming and South
Dakota.
Oregon property-rights activists are working to resurrect
the controversial Measure 7, which would more or less destroy the
state’s land-use regulations.
Letters
Cut the anti-immigration rhetoric
Empower immigrants — don't knock them out
"Baby factories" are the problem
Poverty — and U.S. policy — are the roots of
Mexico's problems
U.S. is to blame for immigration
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