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Can she save ecosystems?

February 7, 1994

New Fish and Wildlife Service Directory Mollie Beattie wants to restore agency's integrity and purpose.

Feature

Can she save ecosystems?
New Fish and Wildlife Service Directory Mollie Beattie wants to restore agency's integrity and purpose.
Kathie Durbin Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Northwest is asked to give up 18 dams
Oregon Natural Resources Council wants 18 dams destroyed to save Northwest's salmon.
Paul Koberstein Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

Sidebar

Why care about a snail the size of pinhead?
Excerpt from Mollie Beattie speech to Natural Resources Council of America.
Mollie Beattie Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Agency ends cattle grazing at Idaho refuges
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ends grazing at two wildlife refuges
Yale Lewis Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: A chronology
Chronology from 1885 to 1993.
Kathie Durbin Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Recycling cans changes an industry
Recycling aluminum cans saves electricity and makes aluminum plants more marginal.
Ed Marston Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Damnable dams
A list of 18 dams Oregon Natural Resources Council would like to see eliminated.
Paul Koberstein Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Some dams self-destruct
Some dams will be easy to get rid of.
Bryan Foster Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Taking back Santa Fe
Take Back Santa Fe group wants to rein in runaway development.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Slip sliding away
International Erosion Control Association plans conference.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Agriculture in the round
Agricultural Outlook Forum set for Denver.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Idaho's unsettling sediment
Government study shows Idaho's Lake Coeur d'Alene contaminated by mining sediments.
John Rosapepe Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Join the eagles
Klamath Basin Bald Eagle Conference planned.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Wanted: Wild poets
Poetry contest sponsored by Utah Wilderness Association.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Canyonlands backcountry plan
National Park Service wants to restrict camping.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Cow stomp and more
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance to sponsor conference for anti-grazing activists.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Work for (a) change
Review of Making a Change: A Student Guide to Social Change Internships in the Northern Rockies.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
Board meeting in Boulder, visitors, correction about Comb Wash and Eddie Dutchie.
Ed Marston Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

News

Idaho group takes over some public land
Jon Marvel of Idaho Watersheds Project outbids ranchers for grazing lease on state land.
Dan Egan Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Babbitt has a bad day in New Mexico
Bruce Babbitt tries to preach consensus to ranchers and environmentalists at star-crossed meeting.
Tony Davis Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Wyoming county tries to put itself on the map
Campbell County, Wyo., plans coyote shoot as tourist attraction.
Cherie Winner Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Baca at the barricades
Jim Baca faces removal as BLM director.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Babbitt takes a fall
Bruce Babbitt considers expansion of road through national monument.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Can this mixed marriage work?
Bob Budd will manage Red Canyon Ranch for The Nature Conservancy.
Katharine Collins Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Timber industry mounts an offense
Timber industry finances campaign against Option 9.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Texan fights out-of-state wastes
Save Sierra Blanca fights waste disposal from other states in Texas.
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
A battle for turf on a flat-top mountain
Forest Service seeks to limit all-terrain vehicle access to Colorado's Grand Mesa.
Todd Hinnen And David Frey Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Judge tells wilderness outfitters to decamp the Frank
Forest Service bans outfitter camps in Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.
Marga Lincoln Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

Opinion

Grazing talks split both sides
Both environmentalists and ranchers doubt usefulness of consensus process.
Steve Hinchman Opinion Essay Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Grazing: the shape of the future
Environmentalists and ranchers will have to learn to compromise.
Ed Marston Opinion Essay Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

Barb

Sore loser in Utah
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Fearless direction on the educational front
Staff Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition

Letters

Look also within, Utah
Carol Oldershaw Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
No cows, no way
Tom Fullum Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Upstarts today are establishment soon
Randal O+toole Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Sheep erase history
Ken Reid Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
Risky business
Karen C. Riggs Feb. 7, 1994 From the print edition
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