The West’s environmentalist lawyers are manning the
legal barricades, as the Bush administration stealthily attacks the
nation’s bedrock environmental laws
Magazine
May 10, 2004
The West’s environmentalist lawyers are manning the legal barricades, as the Bush administration stealthily attacks the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. Also in this issue: Arizona activists team up with Rep. Raul Grijalva to create a small-scale wilderness proposal for the Tumacacori Highlands.
Feature
Sidebar
Environmentalist lawyers Johanna Wald, Joe Feller, Laird
Lucas, Letty Belin, Mike Axline, Jay Tutchton, Roger Flynn and Tom
France are briefly profiled
Editor's Note
The small-town politics of a place like Paonia, Colo., are
a microcosm of the nation today, revealing deep political divisions
and a kind of winner-takes-all arrogance on the part of those in
power
Uncommon Westerners
Dru Carr and Doug Hawes-Davis formed High Plains Films to
make environmental documentaries that are even-handed, humane, and
not at all preachy
Essays
A spring day in Montana leads to an encounter with
sandhill cranes, and with beauty
Book Reviews
A new report from Earthworks and Oxfam America, Dirty
Metals: Mining, Communities and the Environment, details the waste
and pollution produced by modern mining
M. Lisa Floyd’s book, Ancient Pinon-Juniper
Woodlands: A Natural History of Mesa Verde Country, brings 23
scientists and researchers together to celebrate a little-known and
delicate ecosystem
Writers on the Range
The only solution to the destruction of public lands by
off-highway vehicles is to begin to restrict their use in the
backcountry
Off-road vehicle users need to be responsible, but at the
same time they should fight against any restrictions to backcountry
riding
Heard Around the West
Arnold Schwarzenegger and hydrogen-powered cars; 19th
century operas vs. political correctness; dogs vs. coyotes in
Telluride; turning Mount Democrat into a Republican; Sen. Pete
Dominici loses wallet and identity; stupid bank-robber tricks; and
honk if y
Dear Friends
Lyman Orton of the Vermont Country Store and the Orton
Family Foundation visits; Dianne Dumanoski talks about global
warming; Krissy Clark wins Golden Reel broadcasting award for a
Radio HCN feature
News
Arizona activists team up with Rep. Raul Grijalva to
create a small-scale wilderness proposal for the Tumacacori
Highlands
Owyhee Initiative offers Idaho wilderness proposal; judge
upholds Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; Envirocare
seeks toxic-waste dump in Iraq; and Salton Sea may be cut in half
to save it
A decade after it became famous for its model land-use
planning, Jackson, Wyo., is facing a stagnant downtown, crowded
highways, sprawling development and sky-high real estate
prices
In central Utah, Sanpete County wants to build a dam and
reservoir to provide for its fast-growing population, but
neighboring Carbon County says the Gooseberry Narrows Dam will be a
water-stealing boondoggle
Controversy over the long-planned Animas-La Plata Dam in
southwestern Colorado flares again, when the soaring price tag of
"A-LP Ultralight" becomes known
Ecologists working for the city of Seattle, Wash., are
trying to make the second-growth forest of the Cedar River
Watershed function ecologically like an old-growth forest
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