Utah's wilderness hearings stir controversy and draw
vigorous support for more wilderness designation.
Magazine
December 25, 1995
Utah's wilderness hearings stir controversy and draw vigorous support for more wilderness designation as the battle over wilderness in Utah lurches toward a vote in Congress.
Feature
The battle over wilderness preservation in Utah is fought
on many fronts before it comes to a vote in Congress.
Sidebar
A checklist highlights the difference between the area
preserved by the Utah Public Lands Act of 1995 and the Redrock
Wilderness Act.
In a surprise move that delighted environmentalists, Utah
Republican James Hansen is forced to withdraw his delegation's
wilderness bill from the House debate.
Addresses of Senate and Representative offices to comment
on the Utah Wilderness bills.
Activist Ray Wheeler sets an intense pace as he personally
lobbies in D.C. for wilderness preservation in Utah.
The gulf between the views of wilderness preservation of
the Old and New West is unbridgeable.
Book Reviews
The Media and Democracy Congress invites journalists to
San Francisco to hear discussions by 52 speakers.
Volunteers help protect the West's threatened
archaeological sites from vandals and looters.
A report revealed in November shows that the Department of
Energy ranked reporters by how well they treated the
agency.
A report by the General Accounting Office shows that
killing is the most frequent method for controlling predators used
by the federal government.
In this book "Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows,
Ravens, Magpies, and Jays," writer Candace Savage celebrates Corvid
IQs.
"Dynamics of Northern Idaho Forests" is set for Feb. 2-3;
Santa Fe's Sierra Club Conservation Committee sponsors workshop on
mining; five environmental volunteers will get a Sol Feinstone
Award; poets invited to enter Utah Wilderness Poetry
Competition.
Heard Around the West
Small town getting too big; four-wheel drive dangers;
economic whimpers from Los Alamos; political wackiness in the NW;
carting salmon around Elk Creek Dam; thrifty farmers; Navajo
language wins wars; snakes in Navajo schools.
Dear Friends
Utah in the news, death of boatman Curtis "Whale" Hansen,
intern Dustin Solberg, HCN board meeting in Colorado Springs,
visitors.
News
A federal court charges Nevada rancher Cliff Gardner with
trespassing and orders him to remove cattle from Humboldt National
Forest.
The salvage logging rider faces possible repeal in
Congress.
Environmental groups help raise money to reintroduce a
second batch of Canadian wolves to Idaho and to Yellowstone
National Park.
The Bonneville Power Administration faces environmental
and utility critics as it struggles to survive.
The Bonneville Power Administration was born in the Great
Depression and now sells the power from 29 federal dams.
New Mexico Hispanics argue with environmentalists over
firewood-gathering restrictions on national forests.
Republican Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico resurrects a
grazing bill for Congress.
Colorado Rep. Wayne Allard inserts anti-environmental
provisions into the 1995 Farm Bill.
Western Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Alan
Simpson of Wyoming announce their retirement from
Congress.
Opinion
The Old West and the New West need to work together in
trying to preserve the far-from-pristine West that still
remains.
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