Some activists hope that the current hard times facing
both workers and the environment will resurrect the strong
alliances that once existed between greens and labor
unions
Magazine
May 24, 2004
Some activists hope that the current hard times facing both workers and the environment will resurrect the strong alliances that once existed between greens and labor unions. Also in this issue: NOAA Fisheries is drafting new regulations that will allow hatchery-raised fish to be counted along with wild salmon and steelhead, a move that property-rights lawyers hope will take the species off the endangered list.
Feature
Sidebar
The Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
states its founding principles
Editor's Note
The challenge of restoring one overgrazed, weed-choked
pasture is a good example of the kind of work that needs to be done
in the West, to the benefit of both workers and the
environment
Uncommon Westerners
Interior Secretary Gale Norton talks to High Country News
about her "Four C’s" credo: "Communication, consultation and
cooperation, all in the service of conservation"
Essays
In order to remain aware of the amount of water she uses
in her dry climate, the author collects her dishwater daily, and
pours it on her compost pile
Conversation
The complete HCN interview with Interior Secretary Gale Norton
Book Reviews
Doug Chadwick’s new book, True Grizz: Glimpses of
Fernie, Stahr, Easy, Dakota and Other Real Bears in the Modern
World, clears away rip-snorting tales to introduce people to actual
grizzlies
The American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
seeks to return Indian sacred objects to the people who created
them
Writers on the Range
The Bush administration is ignoring the warnings of the
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board created by Congress, and is
racing ahead with its plans to store nuclear waste at
Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
Heard Around the West
Fargo gets trendy; confrontation at the Chuck-A-Rama;
Colorado tsunami; right places, wrong photos; Reagan U. bites the
dust; endangered dinosaurs; Monterey County, Calif., is "birdiest"
in the country
Dear Friends
Summer interns Zach Smith and Dan Wilcock; visitors; and
farewell forever to Penny the dog
News
NOAA Fisheries is drafting new regulations that will allow
hatchery-raised fish to be counted along with wild salmon and
steelhead, a move that property-rights lawyers hope will take the
species off the endangered list
Immigrants rush to cross U.S.-Mexico border for work
visas; housing development threatens antelope migration corridor
near Pinedale, Wyo.; Jim Hansen and Olene Walker lose Utah
gubernatorial primary; and outdoor equipment manufacturers ask
Forest Service
A series of animal poisonings in Wyoming and Idaho raises
questions about whether the states are ready to take on management
of wolves
The New Mexico Game Commission has asked the state Game
and Fish department to re-evaluate its management of endangered
Mexican wolves
Following a flurry of sightings and a much-publicized,
ill-starred hunt for mountain lions in Sabino Canyon near Tucson,
Arizonans push for changes in how the state manages its big
cats
Chromium 6 is moving from the California desert toward the
Colorado River, and officials fear it might contaminate the
drinking water supply of 20 million people
Letters
- Yes, the drought really is that bad
- The Navajo Nation’s first economist takes a fresh view on development
- The Yurok Tribe is bringing condors home to Northern California skies
- What’s wrong with the Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum and Preserve?
- Duwamish Tribe sues Interior in federal court, alleging sex discrimination
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