Magazine
December 27, 1993
Seven stories about controversial management in the nation's premier national park.
Feature
National Park managers deliberate over whether or not they
should charge biotechnical firms for extracting microbes from
Yellowstone.
Introduction to the lead stories on Yellowstone National
Park.
Environmentalists and wildlife biologists criticize a
Forest Service plan to manage grizzlies in Yellowstone.
Park Service scientists charge that the park suppressed
research on grizzlies and elk foraging.
A hunter pleads guilty to poaching elk in Yellowstone
National Park.
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News
Wayne County, Utah, can't find a place for its garbage due
to tougher federal regulations.
Environmentalists urge Jack Ward Thomas to remove the two
top forest managers in the agency's Southwest region.
Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary launches an
"openness initiative' that reveals the DOE's sordid past.
The Spokesman-Review publishes a series about Forest
Service mismanagement in five national forests in the
Northwest.
A Wyoming law relaxing mined land reclamation standards
could cost the state federal funding and regulatory
authority.
Bruce Babbitt elevates the rank of superintendent for
several national parks.
The Navajo Nation's logging company is bankrupt and the
forestry program is in trouble according to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
The federal Office of Surface Mining says Colorado
underestimated the cost and extent of reclaiming the Mid-Continent
mine site near Redstone, Colo.
An artist wants to string 10,000 bras across the Grand
Canyon.
Wyoming tries to revive the Sandstone Dam project in order
to reserve the state's Colorado River water rights.
A coalition of environmentalists and business owners
support Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus' suit to hold dam operators
responsible for killing salmon.
Protesters moon a coal-fired narrow-gauge train to protest
pollution.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees to launch a
multistate search for the rare lynx.
Residents of methane-polluted residential areas blame the
problem on natural gas companies.
Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson creates an independent
law-enforcement branch.
Rep. Pete DeFazio wants the Bonneville Power
Administration to turn over its salmon restoration program to a
more wildlife-oriented agency.
The Sierra Club joins the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in
backing the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.
The Colorado Division of Wildlife adds the boreal toad and
the Rio Grande sucker to the endangered list, and the Mexican
spotted owl to the threatened list.
Book Reviews
An Interior Department report concludes that many wildlife
refuges suffer from neglect.
A public opinion poll shows widespread disapproval of
current range policies.
The Independence Mining Co. says the 1872 Mining Law
entitles it to double the size of its gold mine north of
Elko.
Tourists in Zion National Park may have to park their cars
and take a bus if a National Park Service plan is
approved.
The Women of the West Museum in Denver will feature women
from all economic and ethnic backgrounds.
'Bridging Borders: A Cross-Border Exchange' explores
protecting cultural and environmental heritage along the
U.S.-Mexican border.
Las Vegas puts the Virgin River at the top of its list for
future water supplies, upsetting upstream users.
Opinion
Opinion writer says that former Forest Chief Dale
Robertson shouldn't have been replaced by Jack Ward
Thomas.
Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary pledges to
start cleaning up her agency.
A reporter chronicles the strange happenings (that we
shouldn't know about) at the top-secret Nevada Test Site.
Sidebar
More poachers take wildlife from Yellowstone.
The National Park Service's plan for grizzly recovery in
Yellowstone is summarized.
A National Park Service scientist complains that there are
no reliable statistics on grizzly populations in
Yellowstone.
