Nevada on the move

How can the Environmental Protection Agency be more effective? Congress wants to know, so it commissioned an investigation: Learning from Innovations in Environmental Protection: A Call for Ideas and Potential Researchers. This two-year, $2 million project is asking individuals, businesses, nonprofits and government agencies for their most innovative environmental management techniques. Researchers are also needed […]

Community stewardship – the idea that inclusive, local processes can protect ecological integrity while improving economic conditions – has a new home on the Web: www.sonoran.org. The Sonoran Institute has launched this Web site to allow diverse communities from across the United States, including Red Lodge, Mont., and the border region of the Sonoran desert, […]

Isolated small towns can’t always be quiet about preserving their peace and quiet. In rural Boulder County, Colo., a group called PUMA, which stands for the Preserve Unique Magnolia Association, protects the rural qualities of the Magnolia area by publicizing its community efforts on the World Wide Web. From potlucks to concerns about forest management, […]

Colorado Preservation Inc. has recently published its Most Endangered Places List. Perched in the number one position are Colorado’s gaming towns of Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek – all threatened by Las Vegas-style casinos. For a copy of the list or more information, contact Colorado Preservation, Inc., 910 16th St., Suite 1100, Denver, […]

The Northwest chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration focuses on broad-based salmon recovery efforts at its Tacoma, Wash., conference Oct. 28-30. Called “Ecosystem Restoration: Turning the Tide,” the gathering includes University of Colorado natural-resources law professor and writer Charles Wilkinson and Ted Strong, executive director of the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission. Contact the […]

Ian L. McHarg, author of Design with Nature, will address the first annual Conference on Environmental Protection and Growth Management in the West, to be held Oct. 23 and 24 at the University of Denver. The conference will bring together environmental groups, activists, lawyers planners, and land-use professionals to talk about what is and is […]

The George Wright Society, a nonprofit association of historians, biologists and public and private managers, is calling for papers for its 10th Research and Resource Management of Parks and Public Lands conference next spring. Abstracts are welcome before Oct. 15 on any topic related to research, resource management and education in protected areas such as […]

The Great Old Broads are taking on the Good Ol” Boys in Utah. Organized in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, the Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a group of over 70 women dedicated to preserving wild places. Their ninth Wilderness Conference will be held Oct. 10-11 in Grand Staircase-Escalante National […]

The Oregon Natural Desert Association holds its annual meeting Sept. 26-27 at the Hancock Field Station near Fossil, Ore. Activities include a slide show by photographer Larry Olson, fossil excavation, a canoe trip and early-morning birding. Contact Gilly at 503/525-0193 or write ONDA, 16 NW Kansas Ave., Bend, OR 97701. This article appeared in the […]

The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute will celebrate what would be its conservationist namesake’s100th birthday with Wilderness Horizons: An Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference, Sept. 24-26, 1999, in Ashland, Wis. The Institute is calling now for papers and presentations ranging from the philosophical foundations of wilderness and original wilderness prose, to new ways of managing wilderness. Contact Clayton […]

The National Park Service is doing something different at New Mexico’s El Malpais National Monument. This fall, at the 10th anniversary resource stewardship symposium, the agency will plan the future course of scientific research in the monument. “We’re bringing together the people who actually do the research, and asking what they feel is important and […]