The Wild Card

Feature

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.

Matt Jenkins March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Sidebar

Wilderness on the move

Staff March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Peaks and valleys: Protected wilderness by year

Staff March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Wilderness provides a ‘safe haven’ for this cowboy

Nevada rancher Cal Baird wants to protect local wild lands as wilderness.

Matt Jenkins March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Off-roaders torpedo a wilderness alternative

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.

Tim Westby March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Pure and simple, wilderness is not

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.

Paul Larmer Opinion March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Thank you, readers

Thank you to the supporters of the "Spreading the News Campaign"

Staff March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Perspective

While America waits for war, the environment suffers

In these duct-tape, Code Orange days, only a small political elite seems to be keeping an eye on the environment.

Jon Margolis March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Get off and walk – wilderness is for wildlife

One mountain-biker and wilderness activist believes there are places where his beloved bike doesn’t belong, and that wilderness is one of them.

Michael Carroll Essay March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Let bikers in, and we’ll stand behind wilderness

Another mountain biker says wilderness activists would get a lot more accomplished if they would give mountain bikes a place in the wilderness.

Jim Hasenaur Essay March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Wyoming funds contraceptives for its coyotes – but not its women

Betsy Marston March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Dear Friends

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)

Paul Larmer and Greg Hanscom March 3, 2003 From the print edition

News

Fences go up along the Mexican border

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.

Mitch Tobin March 3, 2003 From the print edition

The Latest Bounce

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."

Laura Paskus March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Grasslands take a step toward nature

New management plans for 10 national grasslands in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Nebraska are getting flak from every direction.

Mark Matthews March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Locals fight new railroad

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.

Ray Ring March 3, 2003 From the print edition

Land-use laws attacked from all sides

Oregon property-rights activists are working to resurrect the controversial Measure 7, which would more or less destroy the state’s land-use regulations.

Jessica Toubman March 3, 2003 From the print edition