Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Keith Hammer heads the Swan View Coalition. He lives in Bigfork, Mont., near Kalispell. What hit me hardest was that their agreement says the forest plan is adequate and […]
View 6 of the grizzly bear controversy
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View 5 of the grizzly bear controversy
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Michael Scott recently became program director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Before that, he was with The Wilderness Society. He lives in Bozeman. There is a lot of overlap […]
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View 4 of the grizzly bear controversy
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. John McCarthy is conservation director of the Idaho Conservation League. He lives in Boise. The local citizen management committee is the main stumbling block. Everyone except Defenders and NWF […]
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View 3 of the grizzly bear controversy
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Seth Diamond is with the Intermountain Forest Industry Association. He has a degree in anthropology and lives in Missoula. The trouble is that in the past grizzlies were used […]
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View 2 of the grizzly bear controvery
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Hank Fischer runs the Northern Rockies’ office of Defenders of Wildlife. He lives in Missoula, Mont. I think the timber people share some of our frustrations with this endless […]
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Tom France’s view of the grizzly bear controversy
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Tom France is an attorney with the National Wildlife Federation. He lives in Missoula, Mont. He is a board member of High Country News. It was at the Interagency […]
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Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists
Note: this article is one of several feature stories in a special issue about collaboration in the West. It seems a deal made in heaven. The timber industry in the Northern Rockies and two major environmental groups have agreed to back the restoring of grizzly bears to central Idaho and western Montana. The proposal is […]
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A progressive commissioner takes the heat
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, A Colorado county tries a novel approach: work the system, in a special issue about collaboration. The last hurdle rancher Tom Colbert has to clear as county commissioner may be his toughest. The commissioners are working to complete a county-wide comprehensive land-use plan […]
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A Colorado county tries a novel approach: work the system
Note: this article is one of several feature stories in a special issue about collaboration in the West. One day in the winter of 1992, officials from Montezuma County in southwestern Colorado did what many of the West’s county officials were doing: They attended a public-lands conference in Steamboat Springs. Amid the Sturm und Drang […]
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Consensus even came to Washington, D.C.
Jim Jontz, feisty director of the Western Ancient Forest Campaign, showed up at the seventh American Forest Congress in Washington, D.C., planning to stomp out in protest. Scores of other environmental activists, all passionately opposed to the “logging without laws’ timber salvage rider, planned to join Jontz’s demonstration at a conference its organizers called the […]
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Idaho learns to share two rivers
Note: this article is one of several feature stories in a special issue about collaboration in the West. ASHTON, Idaho – In a potato-farm warehouse, about 50 members of the Henry’s Fork Watershed Council sit in a circle of folding chairs. They stare quietly at the floor or close their eyes in silence. “I hate […]
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Some not-so-easy steps to successful collaboration
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Howdy, neighbor!, about collaboration efforts in the West. Can citizen collaboration solve every environmental conflict? Nope. “This isn’t a magic bullet,” says Gerald Mueller of Missoula, Mont., who has been a mediator since 1988. It is successful under limited circumstances, he says, […]
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The skeptic: Collaboration has its limits
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Howdy, neighbor!, about collaboration efforts in the West. Editor’s Note: Michael McCloskey, chairman of the Sierra Club, distributed this memo to the club’s board of directors last November. McCloskey wrote it to spur discussion; it does not represent an official position of […]
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Farm bill helps the land – sort of
For more than 60 years, farmers stopped by their local farm services agency each spring and signed their names to join the farm program. It felt like insurance: If the market prices for certain crops fell below a floor, the government would pay the difference. But security came at a price. The government told producers […]
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A faint ray of hope for Northwest salmon
For centuries, Snake River salmon have followed the force of raging rivers on their 750-mile journey from Idaho’s mountains to the sea. Yet their migration hasn’t been natural since the mid-1970s, when the Snake and Columbia rivers were converted into a hydroelectric factory and a 350-mile-long navigation canal. Now the fish have a technical alternative, […]
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The Northwest gets theatrical
Democratic candidates in the rural Northwest who want to moderate logging, mining and ranching usually don’t get too far. But recent miscues by some of their opponents could change the usual dynamic. Take, for example, Rep. Wes Cooley, R-Ore., who is best known for his bill to allow jet boats to blast through Hells Canyon, […]
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Mt. Graham telescope rides through Congress
The setting was as apocalyptic as a Gothic novel: While President Clinton was signing the bill April 26 approving the University of Arizona’s construction of a third telescope on Mount Graham, fire raced through the Coronado National Forest, up the base of the mountain, into red squirrel habitat and toward the two telescopes already pointed […]
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Dear Friends
Going with the flow Locally, things are hopping. A cold snap wiped out up to half the fruit crop, and police say a “little old lady” mistook where the reverse gear was and plowed into the Paonia Post Office, demolishing three newspaper stands and a concrete wall. Both events were not novel. Fruitgrowers have always […]
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As a last resort, Westerners start talking to each other
Posted inApril 29, 1996: A park boss goes to bat for the land
The West’s new prospectors seek microbes
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, A park boss goes to bat for the land. Karl O. Stetter and his team ignore the fresh tracks of a grizzly on their way to hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. Once there, an electronic monitor reveals the pH of the soil is […]