Overpumping has drained Idaho's Snake River acquifer until
rivers like the Big Lost run dry.
Magazine
February 20, 1995
Overpumping has drained Idaho's Snake River aquifer until rivers like the Big Lost run dry.
Feature
Sidebar
Catfish farmer Don Campbell is one of many Idaho farmers
who want to help restore the Snake River.
Environmental groups seek federal remedies to improve the
Snake River's flows.
The 14 wolves reintroduced in Idaho give Fish and Wildlife
trackers a run for their money.
Essays
Former Idaho governor Cecil Andrus leaves a legacy of
environmental reform - and controversy - behind him.
A Chicago columnist castigates the supposedly independent
West as "an overgrown brat."
Book Reviews
Save Our Wild Salmon coalition comes up with its own
salmon recovery plan.
The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest
Adventures is a delightful anthology of Muir's writings.
The video Driving Snow offers advice for winter driving in
the West.
The Green Scissors Report offers environmental suggestions
for trimming federal budget.
Wolf Education and Research Center encourages people to
contribute directly to wolf restoration.
Utah Power & Light wants to dredge at drought-plagued
Bear Lake.
Dear Friends
Chip Rawlins' burlesque opera "The Merchants of Menace,"
corrections, weather and visitors.
News
Republican Gov. Fife Symington overrules Arizona voters on
takings legislation.
The Supreme Court ruled that FBI agents acted correctly
when they confiscated a valuable allosaur fossil, nicknamed "Sue,"
in South Dakota.
Utah's first trumpeter swans are settling at a golf course
near St. George.
Mescalero Apache Rufina Laws led successful fight to keep
a nuclear-waste storage site off the reservation.
The new, Republican-dominated House Resources Committee
lambasts Bruce Babbitt for reintroducing wolves in the
West.
Jackson, Wyo., voters approve an extensive set of new
zoning and land-use regulations.
A part-time farmer in drought-stricken northeast Oregon
founds "church" to obtain umlimited water use.
An injunction on mining, logging and grazing on six Idaho
forests provokes huge community reaction and creates divisions
among environmentalists.
Nine days after her release in Idaho, a reintroduced wolf
is killed when she attacks a calf.
Pessimism and anxiety mark the fourth Western Ancient
Forest Conference in Ashland, Ore.
The company that owns the land on which the disastrous
Summitville Mine sits files "takings" suit against the state and
federal government.
Environmentalists are critical of government's latest plan
to save salmon.
A proposed wilderness bill for Utah leaves
environmentalists unsatisfied.
Grazing fees decrease instead of being raised on federal
lands.
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