Yellowstone National Park Supervisor Michael V. Finley
stirs controversy and conflict as he fights to save America's
oldest national park.
Magazine
April 29, 1996
Yellowstone National Park Supervisor Michael V. Finley stirs controversy and conflict as he fights to save America's oldest national park.
Feature
Sidebar
The controversial Crown Butte mining project near
Yellowstone rouses opposition from both local citizens and national
politicians.
Record numbers of winter visitors to Yellowstone create
controversy about how to manage visitor- and snowmobile-caused
problems.
The increasing scientific - and financial - value of
Yellowstone's hot-springs microbes raises controversy about how to
manage the park's tiniest wildlife.
Book Reviews
A letter to the late Ed Abbey ruefully notes how the
writer's grim predictions about overpopulation and over-abuse of
the canyon country are coming true.
Diné CARE, the group monitoring environmental issues
on the Navajo Nation, hires Christine Benally as its new
director.
The Uintah Mountain Club in Vernal, Utah, plans a literal
"yard sale" to raise money.
A new federal policy lets fire managers put protection of
natural resources ahead of property when they fight fires on public
lands.
The Wild Rockies slate on the World Wide Web brings
environmental resources to the Internet.
The West Desert Healthy Environment Alliance (HEAL)
surveys cancer and health problem rates in Grantsville, Utah, where
residents are exposed to military hazardous wastes.
Japanese volunteers form a group to build trails and
revegetate meadows in American national parks.
The annual Wild Idaho! conference at Redfish Lake on May
17-19 is called "Pennies on the Railroad."
Conference on Wildlife and Trail Recreation: Integrating
Demands in the Wild/Urban Interface.
Telluride, Colo., hosts the 18th annual MountainFilm
Festival May 24-27.
An artists' workshop on "deep ecology," "Talking Gourds
Retreat," will be in Telluride, Colo., June 28-30.
Heard Around the West
Montana weirdness, Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo and
nepotism, Utah bans gay groups in schools, livestock fight back in
Colorado, rattlesnakes in Vail, and Idaho paints over
swastikas.
Dear Friends
Spring weather and mud, news from Walkin' Jim Stoltz and
Robert "Ramon" Amon, corrections.
News
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission gives
people a chance to comment on the need to clean up the air in Grand
Canyon and the Colorado Plateau.
Locals object to the killing of 350 bison for brucellosis
prevention after they wander into West Yellowstone, Mont., from
Yellowstone National Park.
The federal government files suit against eight mining
companies for polluting Idaho's Coeur d'Alene River basin with
mining waste.
Strategic differences over saving the Endangered Species
Act - including attempts to work with industry - lead to schism and
rancor in the environmental movement.
The Washington state Republicans swept into office in the
1994 election begin to feel an environmental backlash from their
state as the next election nears.
Navajos win a court victory against Peabody Coal Company's
strip mine on the reservation, citing pollution and desecrated
burial sites.
Arizona tells the city of Phoenix that it must come up
with $25 million to preserve the nearby state-owned Cave Creek
Wash.
Despite some casualties, the reintroduced Yellowstone
wolves seem to be thriving and beginning to reproduce.
Despite the killing of fish by polluted water in Montana's
Clark Fork River, the EPA still says the removal of the toxic
mining sediments that caused the problem is not worth the
money.
Biologist Fred Dobler believes that cattle grazing may
help save the endangered pygmy rabbit in the sagebrush steppe of
eastern Washington.
Eastern Washington grass farms are upset by an announced
phaseout of the practice of late-summer field burning, after clean
air activists complain.
The controversial expansion of the Santa Fe Ski Area into
a mountain basin called the Tesuque hits a legal snag when regional
forester Charles Cartwright orders the original approval ruling to
be reconsidered.
The destruction of two dams on Washington's Elwha River
comes closer to reality after President Clinton allots $11 million
to the project.
Opinion
Industry claims that the Grand Canyon's haze problem is
naturally caused rile artists and photographers and others who
really know how to look at landscapes.
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