The Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep has fought its way back
from near extinction, but efforts to reintroduce it to all its
former range are more difficult than they appear.
Magazine
February 3, 1997
The Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep has fought its way back from near extinction, but efforts to reintroduce it to all its former range are more difficult than they appear.
Feature
Sidebar
Scientists find that adult bighorn males - whose horns are
a symbol of virility - spend much of their adult lives in
homosexual societies.
Archaeological remains throughout the West show how Native
Americans revered the bighorn sheep.
The Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep's smaller relative, the
desert bighorn, has problems of its own.
Heard Around the West
"Hello" damned in Kingsville, TX; Virgin Mary appears on
Green River, WY garage door; tidal Christmas tree forest in Nome,
AK; "Big Dyke Barbie" respects diversity; strange views of
Hale-Bopp comet; Asian duck in Idaho; Moab mountain bikes
decline.
Dear Friends
Marc Reisner and toilet paper; count the apostrophes;
feedback on post offices and Idaho Conservation League; death of
Allen E. Anderson.
News
An unusual collaboration between two working-class,
largely minority communities means that waste originally meant to
be shipped from Richmond, Calif., to a landfill in Mobile, Ariz.,
will be sent to a less controversial site in Utah.
Scientists, including Dave Wegner of Grand Canyon fame and
geographer Jack Schmidt, are beginning to talk seriously about
getting rid of major Western dams.
A two-year U.S. Fish and Wildlife sting nabs 35
individuals and businesses in the Southwest for killing and selling
protected migratory birds.
The proposed widening and straightening of Highway
14-16-20, the link between Cody, Wyo., and Yellowstone National
Park, raises tremendous controversy between tourism boosters and
environmentalist critics.
The beginning of a new year and a new Congress stirs a
flurry of activity in environmental groups and the creation of an
uncertain new group, Republicans for Environmental
Protection.
Washington's property-rights rebel, Chelan County,
undergoes a turnaround when voters throw out one of two
anti-planning commissioners and elect two political centrists
instead.
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig drafts a massive bill to change
forest management on all BLM and Forest Service lands - and
environmentalists warn that it's another salvage logging
rider.
The number of young hunters is dropping, recent surveys
report.
A 16-month-long national forest logging injunction in
Arizona and New Mexico is lifted when a judge rules that the Forest
Service has completed a plan on protecting the Mexican spotted
owl.
A deal that swaps two potential dam sites above Utah's
Zion National Park for a new one below will provide water while
protecting the Virgin River.
Three people who claim they were mistreated in an
immigration raid in Jackson, Wyo., are suing the INS, the town of
Jackson, and Teton County.
The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project -
a pioneer attempt to adopt a strategy for 75 million acres of
public land in the Northwest - has so far achieved little but its
own survival in the face of Republican attacks.
The Interior Columbia Basin Management Project has
produced a useful but depressing science document, "Status of the
Interior Columbia Basin."
Opinion
Building the newest addition to Colorado's hut system for
skiers and hikers meant long, cold hours of work at 11,300 feet in
the Gore Range.
An environmentalist struggles to untangle the web of
misunderstanding, fear and hate that embroils Hispanos,
conservationists and wise-users over forest use in northern New
Mexico.
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