Bald eagles are making a comeback after near extinction
due to the pesticide DDT.
Magazine
September 6, 1993
Bald eagles are making a comeback after near extinction due to the pesticide DDT.
Feature
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Sidebar
State biologists and bureaus are finding new ways to
protect young eagles.
Native Americans as well as gun buffs and foreign groups
are responsible for killing and selling bald eagles.
Essays
An essay on whether or not Babbitt is helping the
environment at the Interior Department.
Essay: The Forest Service is divided into old guard and
new.
Book Reviews
'American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War' by Carole
Gallagher shows the victims' side of nuclear testing.
The Department of Energy sets scoping meetings on
downsizing its nuclear weapons complex.
The Public Lands Network will host a conference titled
"National Public Lands Grazing Abuse.'
A conference to discuss the protection and restoration of
Colorado riparian areas takes place in Boulder.
Club 20 conference will explore rural Colorado's stormy
relationship with the powers in Denver.
Conference in Estes Park, Colo., focuses on economic
development, land-use planning and sustainability.
The Rocky Mountain Front Advisory Council publishes
"HomeFront', a new newsletter about the frontrange of the
Rockies.
Northwest Media and Environment conference is planned to
help the media get a better understanding of the
Northwest.
A conference on resort development features experts from
Vail, Aspen, Whistler, Banff and Orlando.
David Brower and Denis Hayes will help the Montana
Environmental Information Center celebrate its 20th
anniversary.
The Thorne Ecological Institute and Environmental
Protection Agency host a conference on wetlands
management.
Book excerpts from 'American Ground Zero: The Secret
Nuclear War' by Carole Gallagher.
News
Los Alamos National Lab workers find radioactive waste in
a church septic tank.
Wise Use Attorney Karen Budd wants to give land-owning
hunters more rights in Wyoming.
Alexander Cockburn's article in "The Nation" harshly
criticizes Clinton's forest plan and the Sierra Club for going
along with it.
Vandals destroy three petroglyphs at Wupatki National
Monument in Arizona.
A Forest Service management plan for a Native American
ceremonial ground seems to be working.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service game warden Joel Scrafford
is saved from a transfer by the nomination of Mollie
Beatty.
Jim Baca appoints an African American woman, Denise
Meridith, as his second-in-command at the BLM.
A nationally known archer pleads guilty to killing
protected elk in Yellowstone National Park.
Tourism is crowding Utah's parks.
A black bear kills a logger near Cotopaxi,
Colorado.
The Forest Service says the former Mid-Continent coal mine
site in Colorado could be difficult to reclaim.
The Mescalero tribe in New Mexico has applied for $2.8
million to study the effects of a possible nuclear waste repository
on their reservation.
Ranchers protest the proposed grazing fee hike at a People
For the West! rally in New Mexico.
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
- Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
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