Modern-day scientists, retracing the path of Joseph
Grinnell in Yosemite National Park, document conspicuous changes in
the natural world and find a culprit unimagined by biologists 100
years ago: global warming
Magazine
October 17, 2005
Modern-day scientists, retracing the path of Joseph Grinnell in Yosemite National Park, document conspicuous changes in the natural world and find a culprit unimagined by biologists 100 years ago: global warming. Also in this issue: On his 12th attempt, Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., succeeds in pushing a bill through the U.S. House designed to reform the Endangered Species Act and end critical habitat protection.
Feature
Sidebar
Wildlife biologist Erik Beever says that as the climate
warms in the Great Basin, pikas are rapidly disappearing from
mountains where they formerly thrived
With the federal government dragging its feet, Western
states are beginning to take action to deal with greenhouse gas
emissions and global warming
Editor's Note
The Park Service has always excelled at managing visitors,
and as global warming makes itself felt in Yosemite, Glacier and
other national treasures, the agency should use its interpretive
skills to explain what’s going on
Uncommon Westerners
Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing
Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago
Essays
A writer celebrates finding happiness and finding herself,
as she romps with her children in the beautiful season of
autumn
Writers on the Range
In the wake of a confrontation over a camping fee that
ended in a tourist’s death, a former park ranger remembers a
frightening incident from his own career
Heard Around the West
Border collie looking for work in Boise; washing machine
museum in Colorado; "parasite lost" in Wyoming; big house vs.
bigger house in Utah; cyclists vs. goathead thorns in Sacramento;
nude cycling in North Portland
Dear Friends
Santa Fe board meeting; Emily Stonington and Michael
Fischer leave HCN board; Tutti Skaar, Dan
Stonington and Florence Williams join board; Ruben Martinez and
Angela Garcia speak to HCN meeting; Laura Paskus and Hollis
Lawrence get hitched in Albuq
News
On his 12th attempt, Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif.,
succeeds in pushing a bill through the U.S. House designed to
reform the Endangered Species Act and end critical habitat
protection
Gold mining gets go-ahead near South Pass, Wyo.; Eric
Griego loses election to Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez; W.R. Grace
tells Libby, Mont., residents they’re not that sick;
farm-labor broker Global Horizons ordered to pay penalties, back
wages and taxes
Increasing numbers of the West’s grizzly bears wear
radio collars, and some environmentalists question the necessity of
the practice
The Klamath Basin water bank was intended to end a
tug-of-war over scarce water, but with some farmers selling off
water while other wells go dry, tensions in the Oregon valley are
only getting worse
The Bureau of Reclamation refuses to dismantle Glen Canyon
Dam or drain Lake Powell
Faced with an increase of oil and gas drilling permits,
energy companies are looking overseas, particularly to China, for
enough equipment and crews to work in the West
Just hours before the California Department of Fish and
Game planned to poison a Sierra Nevada stream to help restore a
threatened trout, a federal court halted the controversial
project
With the Forest Service’s Biscuit Fire salvage
logging program acknowledged to be a failure, Oregon Reps. Greg
Walden and Gordon Smith want to speed up future post-fire
logging
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