Bishop, Calif., is a hot spot for the lively new sport of
bouldering, but some fear that the new generation of rock-climbers
is short on environmental ethics, treating nature as little more
than an outdoor climbing gym
Magazine

July 7, 2003
Bishop, Calif., is a hot spot for the lively new sport of bouldering, but some fear that the new generation of rock-climbers is short on environmental ethics, treating nature as little more than an outdoor climbing gym. Also in this issue:Even as wildfires blaze in Arizona and New Mexico, and President Bush’s forest-thinning plan moves through Congress, Western governors counsel moderation in logging and suggest more research and collaboration.
Feature
Sidebar
A look at popular climbing areas around the West shows
both the problems – and the solutions – inspired by the
popularity of rock climbing
Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso, Texas, had
to enact strict regulations governing climbing after the
area’s rock art was vandalized
The Access Fund says it’s out to prove that climbers
care about the environment, but some say that the group’s
tactics are no different from any wise-use group’s
Editor's Note
Outdoor recreationists need to follow the lead of the
Outdoor Industry Association, which is fighting the Utah wilderness
rollbacks, in caring about the fate of their natural
playgrounds
Book Reviews
Fire specialist Stephen Pyne’s new book,
Smokechasing, is a brilliant and thoughtful collection of essays on
a topic he knows very well
Perspective
A group of scientists says that the West is facing a
megadrought, and the notion that wildfires should be allowed to
burn is simplistic and downright dangerous
Writers on the Range
The writer remembers his mother and grandmother’s
stories of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression as he faces the
current drought afflicting the West
Heard Around the West
Orange County, Calif., is running out of building room;
Arizona man says, "Cage cattle, not people;" "Provider Pals"
program wants Montana schoolkids to "adopt" loggers and miners;
endangered Bigfoot; DNA catches rustler; arguing about prairie dogs
in Gra
Dear Friends
We need a vacation! Paonia board meeting; visitors; Karen
Mockler’s first novel
News
Even as wildfires blaze in Arizona and New Mexico, and
President Bush’s forest-thinning plan moves through Congress,
Western governors counsel moderation in logging and suggest more
research and collaboration
Klamath farmers have to cut back on water; hunters asked
to use lead-free ammo to protect condors; Interior Department forms
new appraisal office for land swaps; Indian activist Russell Means
crashes NPS dedication of Little Big Horn Memorial
Controversy is rising over a plan to transfer management
of Montana’s National Bison Range and several other wildlife
refuges to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
The "New Homestead Act" now before Congress seeks to
entice the young and skilled back into the Great Plains’
dying towns -- struggling communities like Eads, Colo
The Nevada Lahontan cutthroat trout, believed to be
extinct for 60 years, may still be alive, but actually restoring
the fish to its native Truckee River and Pyramid Lake could prove
extremely complicated
The Nature Conservancy is using the McCarran Ranch, which
it recently purchased, as a river-restoration pilot project for
Nevada’s Truckee River
Tucson, Ariz., mountain bikers are pushing the Park
Service to reopen the Cactus Forest Trail in Saguaro National
Park
The Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville, Ore., is planting
poplar trees to help clean up contaminants in a cutting-edge
process called phytoremediation
A nonprofit group, Californians Against Waste, is trying
to double the state’s recycling deposits on beverage
containers, but the industry is fighting attempts to put a bill
through Congress
Montana’s Clark Fork River Coalition is celebrating
the EPA’s call for the removal of Milltown Dam and its toxic
reservoir, a decision even conservative Gov. Judy Martz says
God’s will
The group Forest Service Employees for Environmental
Ethics is calling for Forest Service firefighters to be more
careful with fire retardants, which are causing fish kills in
Western streams
Pacificorp has agreed to remove the Powerdale Dam on
Oregon’s Hood River in 2010
A new report by the Rocky Mountain Institute called U.S.
Energy Facts criticizes current energy policy and urges efficiency
and conservation
A new Web site, Forest Fire and the American Southwest, is
intended to serve as a "one-stop-shopping site" for information
about regional wildfires
Letters
Pesticides killing frogs? Poppycock
Pesticides and frogs – it's worse than we
thought
Lori Piestewa's real lesson
- What’s it like to live in a tourist town with no tourists?
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- The Wicked Witch of the West
- Wildfire kills Klamath fish: ‘Everything that’s in there is dead.’
- Record rainfall, bears and French toast at Anchorage’s new city-sanctioned homeless encampment
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