Logging, hydropower and fishing contribute to the decline
of salmon in Oregon waters.
Magazine
November 15, 1993
Logging, hydropower and fishing contribute to the decline of salmon in Oregon waters.
Feature
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Sidebar
Governors from Idaho, Washington, California and Oregon
ask the President to design a strategy to restore declining salmon
runs.
A Snake River Chinook Recovery Team plan to truck salmon
downstream does more to protect hydropower than fish, critics
say.
News
Clinton's Option 9 forest plan draws fire from all sides
after the April Forest Summit.
The Central Arizona Project experiences more glitches in
Tucson.
A hunter abandons a bull elk after a grizzly arrives on
the scene.
A mining reform implemented by Congress and enforced by
the BLM causes miners to abandon 50 percent of their
claims.
The return of Cheyenne skeletal remains recalls their 1879
massacre.
Two Oregon miners may have staked a claim to pressure the
feds to buy them out.
Wyoming rancher blames a grizzly for his loss of over 200
sheep.
Clinton selects replacements for the Chief and Associate
Chief of the Forest Service.
Forester Elizabeth Estill approves a controversial land
trade that gives Tom Chapman 107 acres near Telluride in exchange
for his 240-acre inholding in the West Elk Wilderness.
An autopsy reveals traces of methadone in Navajo activist
Leroy Jackson's blood.
Members of the Grand County Council beat back a recall
vote, despite a well-financed campaign.
Western senators and ranchers are trying to kill Babbitt's
grazing reform package.
Harley "Swift Deer" Reagan's Cherokee spiritual and sexual
techniques are labeled counterfeit by the Cherokee
Nation.
Three people fall to their deaths in a four-day period at
the Grand Canyon.
The Interior Department says it will stop grazing,
motorboating and other secondary uses on the nation's wildlife
refuges.
The Forest Service proposes a plan to appease jet-boaters
and other river users in Hells Canyon National Recreation
Area.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service extends its deadline
for public comment on the wolf restoration project in
Yellowstone.
A bomb explodes at the Bureau of Land Management office in
Reno.
Opinion
An environmentalist sends a plea to Judge William Dwyer to
carefully consider the drawbacks of Option 9 in Clinton's forest
plan.
Jack Ward Thomas represents the reform-mindedness the U.S.
Forest needs.
A coalition of environmentalists pressures the Forest
Service to control grazing and the Diamond Bar Ranch in the Gila
Wilderness.
A critic lambasts Champion Lumber for robbing his home
state of its resource.
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- 9 numbers that explain the BLM’s headquarters boomerang back to D.C.
- When public health becomes the public enemy
- After the Palisades Tahoe name change, where is the Washoe Tribe looking next?
- In Arizona, a radical change in juvenile detention
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