In Wyoming’s Upper Green River Basin, a natural gas
boom is threatening pronghorn antelope and other wildlife, and some
Pinedale-area residents are beginning to fight back
Magazine
August 18, 2003
In Wyoming’s Upper Green River Basin, a natural gas boom is threatening pronghorn antelope and other wildlife, and some Pinedale-area residents are beginning to fight back. Also in this issue: The West is likely to be the loser under the new energy bill just passed by Congress.
Feature
Sidebar
The nation’s increasing demand for natural gas is
going to hit hardest in the Rocky Mountain West
The Red Desert and Jack Morrow Hills of Wyoming are at the
center of industry’s ambitious plans to extract natural gas
and coalbed methane
Responding to pressure from the oil and gas industry, the
Bush administration further relaxes BLM wildlife
regulations
Editor's Note
Americans need to acknowledge all the costs of oil and gas
drilling before we blithely flip the light switch or start the
car
Essays
Watching his children discover nature on the
family’s land in central Montana, the writer remembers his
own childhood special places on a Connecticut beach
Book Reviews
In Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten
Walk Across Victorian America, author Linda Lawrence Hunt
celebrates a Norwegian immigrant’s 1896 journey across
America in an attempt to save her family homestead
Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the
Transient Wilderness, a controversial and
thought-provoking 1954 study by Omer C. Stewart, has been
rediscovered and republished
In the Light of Reverence: Protecting America's
Sacred Lands, produced and directed by Christopher
McLeod, exposes the obstacles American Indians face when trying to
protect their sacred places
Writers on the Range
Some folks say environmental activists are depressing
pessimists, but it actually takes an outraged optimist to bring
about needed change
Heard Around the West
Sen. Larry Craig plays petty politics with the Air Force;
robbery in Aspen; Phoenix is too darn hot; Idaho newspaper takes on
fee demo program; Montana anglers take on Huey Lewis; and chickens
slaughtered in California wood chipper
Dear Friends
Harold Schoeffler visits from Louisiana; more visitors;
new Webmaster Paolo Bacigalupi
News
The West is likely to be the loser under the new energy
bill just passed by Congress
Salt River Project pulls plug on Zuni strip mine; three
dams to come down on Northern California’s Mokelumne River;
Forest Service burns through firefighting budget; and Karl Rove
pushed Interior to give Klamath River water to irrigators
In South Dakota, Oglala Sioux activists from the Pine
Ridge Reservation are fighting for full control of the southern
half of Badlands National Park
Two former employees say they were fired by Newmont Mining
Corporation for blowing the whistle on pollution and other problems
at the Lone Tree gold mine near Winnemucca, Nev
Overnight boaters on the lower Deschutes River in Oregon
need to pack out their waste, the BLM says
Park managers plan to increase the number of agency
helicopter and airplane flights over Glacier National Park this
summer
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