The Bush administration opens up wild lands to oil and gas
drilling, pulling the rug out from under two decades of citizen
wilderness activism
Magazine
January 19, 2004
The Bush administration opens up wild lands to oil and gas drilling, pulling the rug out from under two decades of citizen wilderness activism. Also in this issue: Judge Emmet Sullivan reinstates a Clinton-era ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
Feature
Sidebar
If Bush’s energy bill passes, it will put major
emphasis on public-lands energy development with a number of its
provisions
In northwestern New Mexico, the Coalition for New Mexico
Wilderness is working with Zia Pueblo to preserve a rugged patch of
the state as the Ojito Wilderness Area
A list of the wilderness inventory areas and
citizens’ wilderness proposal areas being offered for oil and
gas leasing by the BLM includes lands in New Mexico, Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah
Editor's Note
The kind of democratic dialogue that creates viable
wilderness proposals is impossible in the current wilderness of
power politics
Uncommon Westerners
Book Reviews
In Writing the Southwest, editors David King Dunaway and
Sara Spurgeon collect interviews with 14 Southwestern writers, and
provide a CD of their voices as well
A new study by a team of biologists shows little is being
done to save a dozen of the Southwest’s threatened and
endangered native fish species
Writers on the Range
Now that mad cow disease is here, even carnivores have to
think twice before biting into a hamburger, because the odds are
that it’s not really a hamburger after all
Heard Around the West
Cloning trophy bucks; glove kills polar bear; Grand Tetons
in Colorado?; potato chip bombs; Monticello, Utah’s "citizens
of the year"; rural Wyoming in The New York Times; Bureau of Penis
Enlargement?; Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is humble; and mother
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Dear Friends
Many thanks for the inspirational Ed Abbey quote; Sedona
board meeting and potluck coming up; How the West works; response
to Robyn Morrison’s rock-climbing story; and
corrections
News
Judge Emmet Sullivan reinstates a Clinton-era ban on
snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks
Bush administration backs off on removing "isolated
wetlands" from Clean Water Act protection; EPA’s Bruce
Buckheit and J.P. Suarez leave for different reasons; Wal-Mart
cracks down on protest; New Mexico vs. Los Alamos National
Laboratory
The Recreation Fee Demonstration Program is renewed until
January 2006, despite mounting criticism of the program
Dutchman Flat outside Bend, Ore., is becoming tense as
snowmobilers and backcountry skiers argue over winter
recreation
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