Western forestry schools slowly begin to reflect the
changes in modern forestry.
Magazine
November 13, 1995
Western forestry schools slowly begin to reflect the changes in modern forestry.
Feature
University of Idaho scientists Art Partridge and Jay
O'Laughlin bring opposite viewpoints to the question of forest
health.
Researchers at Northern Arizona University, led by Wallace
Covington and Margaret Moore, try to inject science into the public
policy debates over logging.
Oregon State University rejects its one-time advocacy of
unsustainable forestry practices and begins to teach new
forestry.
The University of Washington's innovative environmental
institute and other new forestry programs are clearcut by a
conservative dean.
Colorado State University professor Rick Knight pushes
hard for change and enjoys the backing of a supportive
administration.
Sidebar
Faced with federal budget cuts, forestry schools learn to
fund research through other sources and to collaborate with other
scientists.
The University of Idaho's Art Partridge believes that the
forest health crisis is a fraud.
Jay O'Laughlin, director of the University of Idaho's
Policy Analysis Group, denies the charges of industry bias leveled
against his group.
Aquatic biologist Steve Ralph recalls how he directed a
new stream-research program for the University of Washington -
until timber industry scientists objected and the project was
cancelled.
Essays
A rereading of Sinclair Lewis' "Babbitt" helps the writer
understand the anti-intellectual neo-Babbitts in today's Republic
Congress.
Book Reviews
"Measuring Change in Rural Communities" by economist Ray
Rasker is a workbook to help changing communities understand
themselves.
"Testimony," a collection of essays and poems by 20
Western writers, hopes to influence legislators to save Utah
wilderness.
The Environmental Organizing Semester will train both
activists and scholars.
"Defending the Desert: Conserving Biodiversity on BLM
Lands in the Southwest" by the Environmental Defense Fund is
reviewed.
Congressional Green Sheets' "The Environment and Energy
Weekly Bulletin" is reviewed.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation advises against feeding
wildlife in winter.
"Snake: The River Between Us" conference is planned for
Boise.
A survey by the Merck Family Fund shows that Americans
want to simplify their lives but don't know how.
Colorado Open Lands works to preserve undeveloped land in
the states.
Heard Around the West
Nike ads, MTV in Utah, toll attendants on Navajo lands,
French tourists in Utah, DIA woes, cows in suburbia, freon in
Arizona.
Dear Friends
Bear in Paonia, research fund, addendum.
News
President Clinton says the salvage rider to the
rescissions bill he signed in July has opened up the wrong forests
to logging.
The Forest Service reassigns District Ranger Guy Pence to
Boise, Idaho, following two bombings in Carson City, Nev.
Republican "horror stories" about the Endangered Species
Act may be backfiring, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
the media begin a belated debunking of them.
The Shoshone-Bannock and environmentalists protest the
train shipment of high-level nuclear wastes bound for the Idaho
National Engineering Laboratory.
Problems plague all the Western sites under consideration
for nuclear waste burial.
Opinion
The big national environmental organizations, chastised by
recent events in Washington, begin to look back to the grass roots
for renewal.
Related Stories
Two examples from "Facts About the Endangered Species Act"
describe both the "horror story" allegations and the actual facts
found by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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