In a changing West, the land-grant universities'
cooperative extension programs must rethink their
mission.
Magazine
March 18, 1996
In a changing West, the land-grant universities' cooperative extension programs must rethink their mission.
Feature
New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force has often
been accused of being a front for the livestock industry.
Hudson Glimp of the University of Nevada's College of
Agriculture seeks to create "sustainable agreement" in public-lands
grazing.
Extension agent Barb Andreozzi offers creative ideas and
practical assistance to help Anaconda, Mont., prosper
again.
Extension foresters in Idaho help the sisters of St.
Gertrude's Monastery manage their forests in a way that balances
economics with ecology and spirituality.
Montana State University turns to "electronic extension"
to meet the information needs of the state's widely scattered
population.
John Gardner represents a new breed of agricultural
"specialized generalists" who want to help Dakota farmers reclaim
the food system.
Sidebar
Description of what the West's extension agents
do.
In his own words, extension agent Edmund Gomez describes
how the Rural Agriculture Improvement Project seeks to help New
Mexico's poor farmers.
Montana State University's new manufacturing extension
center helps entrepreneurs such as backpack designer Dana Gleason
of Dana Design.
Book Reviews
A Desert Wildlands Revival: Water, Wildlife and Wilderness
in the High Desert conference in Burns, Oregon.
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency's decision to cap 130 acres
of radioactive debris with dirt on the bank of the Colorado River
near Moab, Utah, angers local residents.
Federal employees and outside experts under the auspices
of AFSEEE develop a management plan for the Columbia Basin - a
volunteer effort that cost taxpayers nothing.
County Commissioner John Clarke's primer, "The Code of the
West," seeks to help newcomers adjust to rural Larimer County,
Colo.
Kenneth Perry's topographic map of "The Colorado Plateau
and its Drainage" is like seeing the West from heaven.
English watercolorist Tony Foster displays paintings of
the desert West in Sun Valley, Idaho.
The League of Conservation Voters' 26th annual report
rates lawmakers on environmental votes.
The Oregon State University Extension hosts "Small Farming
in Oregon" March 29-30 at Linfield College.
The Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology and the West
symposium is scheduled for April 12-13 at the University Park Hotel
in Salt Lake City.
Heard Around the West
Lost in the West, including Sacajawea, Bureau of Indian
Affairs money; extra acres of public land appearing; busted for
nude sunbathing in Spokane; computer sculpture courtesy of DIA;
Helen Chenoweth on new species; Columbia Falls finally gets
waterfall.
Dear Friends
Spring interns Michelle McClellan and Bill Taylor, small
world department.
News
Campaign politics and the prospect of summer protests are
pushing President Clinton and Congress toward dismantling or
changing the salvage logging rider.
Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth is accused of misusing money;
Utah's Enid Waldholtz will retire; Colorado Democrats are divided
over ethics of accepting PAC money; in Oregon Peter DeFazio drops
out of race to replace Mark Hatfield.
In Montana's Glacier National Park, young grizzlies have
begun to eschew hibernation and prowl the park in winter, pilfering
the kills of wolves and mountain lions.
In Colorado, a bill to gut state law 1041, which allows
local communities to have strict land-use regulations, is pulled
from consideration in the House.
The EPA orders the state of Colorado to tighten
regulations from open-pit gold mine near Victor.
A new group called Northwesterners for More Fish is made
up of electric companies, timber companies and aluminum
plants.
Opinion
The Media and Democracy Conference in San Francisco showed
alternative media as too mired in the "60s and in political
correctness to thoughtfully address realities of the
"90s.
The writer takes an ironic look at the Thunderbolt timber
sale in Idaho, and at Boise Cascade's conviction that only logging
can save the endangered chinook salmon.
Letters
- Wyoming’s ‘Bird Lady’ offers a haven for injured birds
- Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
- A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too
- New bill would permanently protect 130,000 acres of Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
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