Utah, which once boasted exceptionally rich populations of
reptiles and amphibians, now does nothing to stop their rapid
disappearance.
Magazine
May 27, 1996
Utah, which once boasted exceptionally rich populations of reptiles and amphibians, now does nothing to stop their rapid disappearance.
Feature
Sidebar
Native frog populations throughout the United States - and
the world - are declining drastically, and no one is quite sure
why.
Environmentalists are furious that the Utah state wildlife
agency, at the direction of the Legislature, is funding projects to
kill every mammalian predator on study sites in two counties, in an
effort to improve pheasant hunting.
Book Reviews
Five Western rivers are in American Rivers' annual report,
"North America's Ten Most Endangered and Threatened
Rivers."
Researchers from the Yellowstone Grizzly Foundation hope
to learn about the bears' genetic diversity through studying hairs
left behind when the animals scratch their backs.
G.K. Guennel's two-volume "Guide to Colorado Wildflowers"
makes plant identification easy.
The 51st annual conference of the Soil and Water
Conservation Society, "Rocky Mountain Rendezvous: Renew Yourself in
the High Country," will be held July 7-10, in Keystone,
Colo.
University of Colorado School of Law's 17th Annual Summer
Conference, "Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of
the Endangered Species Act," to be held June 9-12, in Boulder,
Colo.
A reviewer debunks the claim in Alston Chase's book, "In a
Dark Wood," that "ecosystem" and "biocentrism" are only
"masquerading as science."
News
Despite overwhelming public opposition, Jackson Hole
airport officials want to expand the runway of the only airport
inside a national park, in Grand Teton National Park.
The new Arizona Preserve Initiative allows
conservationists to lease state lands, but only those within a
three-mile radius of major cities.
Native Americans and environmentalists protest a salvage
rider timber sale on Oregon's Enola Hill, saying the area is full
of sites sacred to Northwestern tribes.
Ken "Taz" Stoner, suspected of bombing Quartzite Falls on
Arizona's Salt River, is arrested in Sydney, Australia.
Sierra Club members approve a controversial new policy
calling for no logging on public lands.
The National Park Service considers raising park entrance
fees that in many cases have remained almost unchanged since the
parks were created.
Despite his support of the controversial Animas-La Plata
water project, Colorado environmentalists seem to prefer Tom
Strickland to his arguably greener opponent Gene Nichol for the
Democratic candidate for Senate.
A new Idaho law allows farmers who suspect beavers are
damming water that could be irrigating fields to call on state
officials to get rid of the beavers even if the dams are on
someone's private property.
Recklessness and speed killed nine snowmobilers last
winter in Wyoming near Yellowstone and Grand Teton national
parks.
A possible oil and gas boom in Wyoming's Red Desert has
environmentalists scrambling to mitigate the impacts without
totally alienating local oil and gas workers.
Western Colorado's Demaree Canyon, a wilderness study
area, faces possible natural-gas drilling owing to a grandfathered
drilling permit.
Heard Around the West
Sex at the prom, Abstinence Week, Utah's baby boom,
complaints in a Silver City, N.M., lumberyard about having to take
off your gun at the door, tourists hurry through Utah, linger in
Wyoming, and in South Dakota folks are nice to cows.
Dear Friends
Woe is Montana, notes from all over, Anders Halverson wins
awards.
Letters
Opinion
The West should quit looking for heroes to rescue it -
especially heroes like Major John Wesley Powell, who, the author
believes, did the region more harm than good.
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