The story of whirling disease in Western trout is a story
of human "improvement on nature" gone wrong.
Magazine

September 18, 1995
The story of whirling disease in Western trout is a story of human "improvement on nature" gone wrong.
Feature
Essays
The writer seeks to change the sometimes-competitive
relation between Easterners and Westerners into a true working
partnership to save all American wildlands.
The catalog-consumerism of trendy "Native American" items
exploits both Indians and the non-Indians who want to dress and
decorate for the part.
A Native American journalist offers a fierce critique of
Walt Disney's "Pocahontas."
Book Reviews
The Sierra Club's map of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene
watershed draws attention to the area's pollution and offers
advice.
Photojournalist Kit Miller explores the lives of Nevada's
casino workers in photos and interviews in an exhibit called Inside
the Glitter.
"Caring for Creation" by Max Oelschlaeger, suggests using
religious belief to fight ecocatastrophe.
The Natural Resources Defense Council's report "Selling
Our Heritage" blasts congressional plans to give away public
lands.
Keith Hammer's "A Road-ripper's Guide to the National
Forests" offers advice on how to legally close and restore forest
roads.
Greater Yellowstone Predators: Ecology and Conservation in
a Changing Landscape will be held at Yellowstone, Wyo.
Writing the Lives of Southwestern Flora and Fauna will be
held in Arizona.
A new magazine called "Sheep Country" is intended for
sheep growers in all 50 states.
Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands
and Public Benefits will be held Oct. 11-13 at Boulder,
Colo.
10th Annual Wild Rockies Rendezvous, Sept. 29-0ct.1, will
be sponsored by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.
Heard Around the West
Cows poisoned; antler poaching; brucellosis logo in
Yellowstone; overheated black-footed ferrets die; beef fudge
recipe; prison near Norwood, Colo., school; salvage logging
protest; "drive-through' Ph.D.; Harry Merlo's successor; recreation
bulldozing.
Dear Friends
HCN anniversary in Lander, Rick and Heather Knight present
award to HCN, new interns Heather Abel and Warren
Cornwall.
News
Colorado ranchers Demetrio and Olive Valdez want to begin
selling local cattle as kosher beef.
The Department of Agriculture investigates one of the
nation's largest meatpackers, IBP Inc., for antitrust
violations.
Economist John Loomis puts a price tag on the value of
tearing down two Elwha River dams and restoring the salmon runs on
the river.
The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to list the
coho as a threatened species in Oregon and California.
A thunderstorm washes out streams and kills fish in
Idaho's Boise and Crooked rivers.
At an air summit meeting in Grand Junction, Colo.,
representatives at Denver International Airport hear a litany of
complaints from Western Slope regional airport managers.
Crown Butte mining company officials hastily file 38
claims on national forest lands adjacent to Yellowstone Park a day
before President Clinton's moratorium on such claims goes into
effect.
Undaunted by a third federal court ruling against the
University of Arizona's plan to build its large telescope on Mount
Graham, Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe drafts legislation to let the
construction proceed.
Montana Rep. Pat Williams wins a temporary moratorium on
logging, mining and oil and gas leasing on 1.7 million acres of
roadless area in Montana.
Three male grizzlies are electrocuted by a downed power
line in Yellowstone's Hayden Valley.
Predator Friendly, an unusual alliance of sheep ranchers,
environmentalists and entrepreneurs, markets wool grown by ranchers
who don't kill coyotes.
A bill introduced in Congress would give the Park Service
more power to regulate overflights.
A lawsuit claims the Forest Service has been lax in
obeying a judge's order to remove outfitter structures from Idaho's
Frank Church/River of No Return Wilderness.
Letters
The writers reply. By Karl Hess Jr. and Jerry L.
Holechek
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