Magazine
Dog and pony show about salmon and owls

May 15, 1995

Public hearings on the rewriting of the Endangered Species Act stir up controversy among environmentalists and their opponents.

Feature

Dog and pony show about salmon and owls
Public hearings on the rewriting of the Endangered Species Act stir up controversy among environmentalists and their opponents.
Kathie Durbin May 15, 1995 From the print edition
A tough law meets tough foes
The Endangered Species Act, enormously popular at its inception in 1973, now faces serious challenges as it comes up for revision.
Rocky Barker Opinion Essay May 15, 1995 From the print edition
A full-court press to save ecosystems
Jasper Carlton, head of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation in Boulder, Colo., was "guerilla lawyering" to protect threatened species in court.
Anders Halverson May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Soft-path approach to saving species
Hank Fischer of Defenders of Wildlife tries to use communication and consensus-building to save endangered species.
Paul Larmer May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Interior wants to kill a success
An innovative Fish and Wildlife program called Partners for Wildlife faces dismantling, despite the success it has shown in working cooperatively with ranchers and landowners along Montana's Blackfoot River.
Duncan Adams May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Five states squirm as bull trout declines
Saving the bull trout will require the cooperation of five states and 34 national forests.
Paul Larmer May 15, 1995 From the print edition

Essays

A war of ideologies, with endangered species as weapons
A writer thoughtfully considers the philosophical and religious ramifications of the struggle to save endangered species.
Robert Michael Pyle Opinion Essay May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Armed, crazy and lost in the Wild West
The mixture of guns, anti-environmentalism and conspiracy theories in the Northwest makes a frightening, fascist brew.
Patrick Dawson Opinion Essay May 15, 1995 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West
A digest of news reports on militias and the reaction to them in the West in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Ed Marston May 15, 1995 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
Semi-special issue on Endangered Species Act; more responses to Margolis piece; reader surveys.
Staff May 15, 1995 From the print edition

News

Wolves born outside the park
A wolf released in Yellowstone gives birth to pups near Red Lodge, Mont., after her mate is illegally killed.
Michael Milstein May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Overstaying their welcome?
A once-quiet hot springs is overwhelmed by visitors after guidebooks tout it.
Karen Mcdonald May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Critics attack a snow job in Utah
Salt Lake City's expensive bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics is meeting surprisingly lukewarm opposition from environmentalists.
Larry Warren May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Politics and threats keep cows on public land
Amid rumors of violence, the Forest Service backs down on its plan to cut the number of Kit and Sherry Laney's cows that graze a wilderness allotment.
Tony Davis May 15, 1995 From the print edition
A question of logging
Wilderness Society president Jon Roush is blasted for selling $140,000 worth of timber from his Western ranch.
Elizabeth Manning May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Shrinking salmon
As salmon runs in the Northwest diminish, the size of individual fish decreases too.
Elizabeth Manning May 15, 1995 From the print edition

Letters

A superb issue
Anne Fitzgerald May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Inciting to violence is not acceptable
Jeff Debonis May 15, 1995 From the print edition
Salvage bill sells out democracy
Kevin M. Bailey May 15, 1995 From the print edition
The result of groundwater pumping is obvious in Nevada, too
Ann Kersten, Susan Lynn, Tom Myers May 15, 1995 From the print edition
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