Eagle, Colo., residents wage a 13-year war against
developer Fred Kummer's plans to build a mega-ski resort called
Adam's Rib.
Magazine
February 19, 1996
Eagle, Colo., residents wage a 13-year war against developer Fred Kummer's plans to build a mega-ski resort called Adam's Rib.
Feature
Sidebar
The cozy relationship between the Forest Service and the
ski industry provokes outrage from environmentalists.
If the Adam's Rib ski resort is built, western Colorado's
already displaced workers will have to commute even farther to find
a place to live.
The new resort town of Mountain Village, Colo., employs
questionable legal tactics to allow non-resident property owners to
vote while seasonal workers cannot.
Local Native Americans, Hispanics and Anglos share outrage
at the Forest Service's approval of the Santa Fe Ski Area's Big
Tesuque expansion.
Book Reviews
A report, "Managing Change in Rural Communities," is
reviewed.
The National Biological Service's book, "Our Living
Resources," surveys American ecosystems and species.
Activist Yvan Rochon seeks removal of two dams on
Washington's Elwha River.
A brochure and video called "Abandoned Mines, Stay Out and
Stay Alive," seeks to educate people about the dangers of
unreclaimed abandoned mines.
A National Park Service report, "The Yellowstone Lake
Crisis," says there's little hope of ridding Yellowstone Lake of
illegally introduced lake trout.
Short take, Environmental Action "96: Winning in November,
Feb. 24-25.
Short take, The Snake River: Balancing the Vision, Feb.
29-March 2.
Short take, Seventh North American Interdisciplinary
Wilderness Conference, Feb. 29-March 2.
13th National Trails Symposium, March 9-12.
Heard Around the West
Navajo football broadcast, George Nethercutt not a good
listener, fish visitors comment, Wanaleiya resort in Nevada, Iowa
romance, cold weather in the Dakotas, big and little
DIAs.
Dear Friends
C.L. Rawlins changes from poetry editor to editor at
large, HCN buffed, corrections, suggestions, birth of Diane Hackl's
baby.
News
Colorado's Winter Park Ski Area denies the Forest
Service's charge that it packed Little Vasquez Creek with snow and
possibly wiped out the stream's cutthroat trout.
Evangelical and other Christian environmentalists join
together and save The Endangered Species Act, and to prove that not
all Christians are represented by the right wing Christian
Coalition.
Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden wins narrowly over Republican
Gordon Smith in the election to replace Sen. Bob
Packwood.
A controlled week-long flood through the Grand Canyon may
help restore some of the beaches, sandbars and humpback chub fish
harmed by Glen Canyon Dam.
Non-residents who illegally kill fish and wildlife in
Montana face stiffer penalties than locals who commit the same
crimes.
Intense opposition from ranchers and others may settle a
federal proposal to reintroduce the endangered Mexican wolf to
Arizona and New Mexico.
Three biologists stir controversy with a book that urges
Yellowstone Park managers to begin regulated feeding of grizzly
bears.
Washington, D.C.'s budget impasse throws BLM offices
throughout the West into turmoil.
Former New Mexico State Engineer Eluid Martinez will
replace Dan Beard as commissioner of the Bureau of
Reclamation.
A longtime effort to restore bighorn sheep to Hells Canyon
is imperiled by a deadly outbreak of the disease
pasturella.
Idaho Fish and Game officials urge the Forest Service to
remove logging roads damaged by heavy rain and landslides in
national forests.
Opinion
Usually conservative residents of Noxon, Mont., react
angrily to ASARCO's plan to build a huge mine in the Cabinet
Mountains - and wish the federal government would intervene and
stop it.
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