A reporter travels through Washington state's 5th
congressional district to try to understand the November election
defeat of Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley after 30 years
in office.
Magazine
May 29, 1995
A reporter travels through Washington state's 5th congressional district to try to understand the November election defeat of Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley after 30 years in office.
Feature
Book Reviews
A review of Gregg Easterbrook's "A Moment on the Earth:
The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism" exposes it as a
destructuve, inaccurate polemic against
environmentalists.
Critics say the Forest Service's revamped regulations
under the National Forest Management Act will weaken environmental
protection.
A review of "Industrial Hemp" touts potential of growing
the currently illegal plant for products including paper, paint,
and even dynamite.
A conference on "Sustainable Use of the West's Water" in
Boulder, Colo., addresses water rights.
Conference to be held at Keystone, Colo.
American Rivers includes four Western rivers in its list
of the nation's 10 most endangered.
Nominations are sought for the National Wildlife
Federation's 1995 conservation achievement awards.
"Places of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology" is
reviewed.
"Bears and Ecosystems: A Period of Transition" conference
will be held by the Yellowstone Grizzly Foundation.
Heard Around the West
Utah exempts peace pipes; Arizona tribe wants to protect
air; new Navajo Pres. Hale asks for pardon for Peter MacDonald;
eating buffalo in Ronan, Mont.; wise-use newsletter, "The Courier';
Democrats in Oregon's Wallowa County.
Dear Friends
A visit from "Ramon" Robert Amon and Cindy Strand; June
potluck and board meeting in Paonia
News
After a decade of drought, most of the West is now being
drenched.
California retirees Ken and Pat Nute alienate neighbors by
describing local houses as eyesores and the town as a dump, on a
local TV show.
Montana hunter Chad McKittrick is charged with illegally
killing one of the 15 wolves restored to Yellowstone.
"Recreational ranchers" earn extra money from tourists who
pay for a chance to work as cowboys.
Texaco agrees to clean up North Platte River pollution
from a defunct oil refinery after Sierra Club sues.
Idaho communities learn about land trusts as a possible
solution to rapid growth.
New Mexico's Meridian Oil Inc. has been shortchanging the
government on royalties, according to a BLM
investigation.
The Wind River Indian Reservation sues non-Indian
irrigators for violating water rights and dumping trash in the Wind
River to dam it.
A lawsuit over grazing on Montana's Beaverhead National
Forest is settled in ranchers' favor.
Jackson, Wyo.'s housing shortage will be worse than usual
as Forest Service officials limit camping to five days on forest
land in Jackson district.
A meeting of Wyoming's governor and other state officials
with Nye County, Nev., wise-use rebels falls through after
unwelcome publicity from the Wyoming Outdoor Council.
A heavy runoff from snow helps migratory salmon get over
dams on their way to the ocean.
Mescalero Apaches vote to store high-level nuclear waste
on the reservation six weeks after first voting against
it.
The Washington Legislature's approval of Initiative 164
creates the most far-reaching "takings" law in the
nation.
Opinion
Republican plans to cut the budget for the Land and Water
Conservation Fund will wreak havoc in the West.
Letters
- Interior attorney gave false information to Congress about contact with Koch Foundation
- Observe the BLM’s displacement
- Pay to play: Interior Secretary’s old clients spend big and profit bigly
- Mauna Kea telescope project halted after months of protests
- Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence
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