California Republican Rep. Richard Pombo made his mark
blasting the Endangered Species Act, but now, he says, he’s
learning to compromise on environmental issues
Magazine
July 25, 2005
California Republican Rep. Richard Pombo made his mark blasting the Endangered Species Act, but now, he says, he’s learning to compromise on environmental issues. Also in this issue: The Bureau of Land Management rewrote a scientific report critical of its new grazing rules, and two veteran scientists have quit the agency in protest.
Feature
Sidebar
House Resource Committee press release headlines
Since Richard Pombo took over the House Resources
Committee in 2003, the number of scandals around him has steadily
grown
Editor's Note
Washington, D.C., seems like another planet when seen from
the West, as the political stories in this issue of the paper
suggest
Uncommon Westerners
John Morgart works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
overseeing the recovery of Mexican wolves in the Blue Range of New
Mexico and Arizona
Essays
Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli has spent twenty-five years
studying life on Mount St. Helens, especially the boreal toad,
which is in decline almost everywhere else, but thriving at the
volcano
Book Reviews
In Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American
Town, Gillian Klucas describes the history and the
current environmental and economic struggles of the old mining town
of Leadville, Colo.
In The Way Out, Craig Childs tells the
true story of how he and a friend explored a Utah desert and, at
the same time, journeyed through their own memories
In Outgrowing the Earth, environmental
prophet Lester Brown writes a frightening nonfiction disaster
thriller about the problems facing the planet
In Pueblo Indian Agriculture, James A.
Vlasich explores the American Indian farms along New Mexico’s
Rio Grande, delving into their difficult history and their current
modest revival
A collection of short stories by Las Cruces writer Kevin
McIlvoy, Complete History of New Mexico brings
the reader a variety of tales written from a great variety of
perspectives
Writers on the Range
The kingdom of Bhutan has created a wildlife sanctuary for
its possibly mythological "strong men" – the migoi, or
yeti
Heard Around the West
Bison-poop paper; dumb and dumber bank robbers;
what’s in Lake Powell; thank you, Las Cruces; eagle
"grenades" into window in Alaska
Dear Friends
Lots of summer visitors; our readers’ two
cents’ worth; read about Reid Rosenthal
News
The Bureau of Land Management rewrote a scientific report
critical of its new grazing rules, and two veteran scientists have
quit the agency in protest
Arizona’s San Pedro River dries up; Umatilla
Chemical Agent Disposal Facility is having trouble disposing of
rockets; Bush nominates industry lawyer Granta Nakayama to head
EPA’s enforcement division
The Bush administration says its revision of the Roadless
Area Conservation Rule rule will increase local control over
national forests, but as Western governors read the fine print,
they begin to have doubts
Western state legislatures boost wildlife and green
energy, even as Washington, D.C., remains hooked on fossil
fuels
The Bush administration has reclassified mining waste as
"fill," and now a gold mine plans to dump its waste directly into
an Alaskan lake
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