Rancher Sid Goodloe battles pinon-juniper and uses a
variety of controversial methods to restore his ranchland in New
Mexico.
Magazine
April 15, 1996
Rancher Sid Goodloe battles pinon-juniper and uses a variety of controversial methods to restore his ranchland in New Mexico.
Feature
Sidebar
Author and fire historian Stephen Pyne talks about the
role of fire in the Southwestern landscape.
Sid Goodloe, in his own words, discusses how to be a good
steward of the land while making a living at ranching.
Bibliography
Essays
Western university biologists and botanists dispute
Goodloe's theories - from several viewpoints.
A former range con reconsiders the conflict of interest
that arises when rangers who want to be cowboys are put in charge
of public-lands grazing.
Book Reviews
University of Denver's Graduate School of Public Affairs
will choose a professor to hold the Timothy E. Wirth Chair in
Environmental and Community Development Policy.
Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico's Carson Forest
will hold three eight-day meditation retreats from August through
September for environmental and social activists.
Oregon's devastating floods could be prevented by
restoring Willamette River wetlands and woodlands, study
says.
Former HCN regional editor Jon Christensen begins a
quarterly called "Great Basin News."
Taxpayers pay and managers are rewarded when Forest
Service officials in California hand out timber contracts without
adequate environmental review.
The Earth First! Rendezvous will take place on Idaho's
controversial Cove-Mallard logging area.
The Olympic Watch League (OWL) keeps an environmental eye
on the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
The Seattle Audubon Society founds the Washington Wetland
Network, or WETNET, to help protect wetlands.
News
The Utah delegation's controversial wilderness proposal
for southern Utah is defeated in Congress after a
struggle.
The Supreme Court's decision in "Seminole vs. the State of
Florida" is a clear victory for states' rights but a muddle for
Indian gaming.
The Forest Service rejects an environmental group's high
bid on fire-damaged trees and accepts second-highest bid to ensure
that the trees are cut.
The Park Service sues Garfield County, Utah, after a road
crew repairing the Burr Trail bulldozes a hillside inside the
boundaries at Capitol Reef National Park.
Old growth in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest is saved
when the Forest Service allows the timber company to exchange one
timber sale for another.
Irate locals in Big Horn, Wyo., fight the ambitious golf
course and vacation home development plans of Homer Scott
Jr.
The valves at Glen Canyon Dam are opened so the Colorado
River can once again flood the Grand Canyon - and scientists, river
guides, and environmentalists begin to study the results.
Democrats fight Republican anti-environment riders
attached to the budget bill as the 1996 budget struggle
continues.
The Pew Charitable Trust offers a huge grant to the 50
environmental groups banded together in the Southwest Forest
Alliance - and some environmentalists worry that the money may do
more harm than good.
Heard Around the West
Praying for cold weather, Jesus and fishing permits, wild
horse contraceptives, reservoirs help earth rotate, Bigfoot on
endangered species list, Northwesterners for more fish use, wrong
fish for logo.
Dear Friends
Ditch burning, Udo Zindel update, mapmaker Louis Jaffe
visits, "Code of the West" on line and jailed Bill
Chisholm.
Letters
Opinion
A successful one-month voluntary climbing ban, designed to
respect Native American religious practices at Wyoming's Devils
Tower, provokes a lawsuit from the Mountain States Legal
Foundation.
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