Magazine
October 11, 2004
Stewart Udall and his brother, Mo, were conservation icons in the 1950s and ‘60s, but their sons – Rep. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado – face a harder fight in today’s Congress, where Democrats are the minority and conservation has become controversial. Also in this issue: The Bush administration’s new salmon plan treats dams as a natural part of the landscape, and sees a recovery plan as more important than actual species recovery.
Feature
Stewart and Mo Udall were Western conservation giants. Now
the West looks to their sons to bridge today’s social and
political divides and create a conservation legacy of their
own
Editor's Note
The brothers Stewart and Mo Udall are two of the
West’s conservation heroes, and their sons, Rep. Tom Udall of
New Mexico and Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, have very large shoes
to fill in their own work for the Western landscape
Essays
George W. Bush has refused to govern from the center, and
with the Republicans in charge of the government, a mandate from
the voters doesn’t matter
In the presidential election this fall, sportsmen are
likely to be split between those who vote for wildlife, and those
who vote for the gun
Dear Friends
Ed and Betsy Marston have a brand-new granddaughter, Maude
Rose Marston Lehmann; HCN freelancer Matt Weiser wins a spot on
Project Censored’s Top 25 Censored Stories of the year; Radio
High Country News wins yet another award; visitors; clarifications
and
News
The Bush administration’s new salmon plan treats
dams as a natural part of the landscape, and sees a recovery plan
as more important than actual species recovery
Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes now a national park;
health screening program for former nuclear workers to expire;
Forest Service didn’t break any laws with its Sierra Nevada
PR campaign; rocket-burning begins at Oregon’s Umatilla
Chemical Depot
A genetically engineered form of creeping bentgrass,
designed to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, could creep from
the golf courses it’s intended for to nearby public
lands
Oregon has developed a blueprint that will allow eight or
more wolf packs to move in from neighboring Idaho
Sandia National Laboratories wants to monitor the nuclear
waste in a Cold War-era landfill just outside Albuquerque, rather
than excavate it or try to move it elsewhere
Although the Cook pack was destroyed by federal wildlife
agents after the wolves killed 70 sheep north of McCall, Idaho,
both environmentalists and the Fish and Wildlife Service say the
wolf program is doing well
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife proposal for bull trout critical
habitat along Nevada’s Jarbidge River raises the stakes in
the conflict over whether to rebuild an Elko County road
Arizona’s Proposition 200 would prevent noncitizens
from voting, among other things; Utah’s Initiative 1 would
spend money on open space and preservation; Ralph Nader will be on
New Mexico’s ballot
In Western states where judges are elected, an increasing
amount of special-interest group money is being spent on hotly
contested state judge campaigns
Book Reviews
The University of Montana’s Farm to College program
works with farmers and ranchers to bring local food products into
the university’s Dining Services
In his book Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, Jon T.
Coleman explores the history of how the wolf was slowly transformed
from vermin to be cruelly slaughtered into a noble calendar
pinup
Heard Around the West
"Wildlife trash media" making films about bears;
don’t throw things at bears; no excuses for erratic drivers
in Cortez, Colo.; Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler dies; Delta,
Colo., firefighters say good-bye to old yellow truck; and
International Truck
Letters
Related Stories
Mo Udall’s six children, and Stewart Udall’s
six – not to mention many of their cousins – have
tended to find work in some form of public service
Stewart Udall talks about his years as Interior secretary,
and criticizes the Bush administration’s environmental
policy
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