Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Who owns these bones? “Dinosaur bones have really increased in price. It wouldn’t matter to me if they were not worth anything. I’d sure love to go find more of them.” – Lin Ottinger Lin Ottinger has watched Moab turn into a tourist mecca and […]
Dinosaur bones have really increased in price
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Who owns these bones?
Tucson, Ariz. – The television’s flickering light reveals salmon-colored femurs on card tables, mastodon skulls on a flowered bedcover, dinosaur eggs atop the TV. Japheth Boyce is on the phone, dealing. “Yes … $2,000 … I just can’t go any lower … Well, what can you trade me? … Room 169, Ramada Inn, tomorrow 7 […]
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13th National Trails Symposium
Trails ranging from urban bikeways to wilderness hiking paths will be discussed at the 13th National Trails Symposium, March 9-12, in Washington, D.C. American Trails, public-lands agencies and the Federal Highway Administration are sponsoring the workshop, which also features special on-the-trail field trips in the D.C. area. Contact American Trails, Box 200787, Denver, CO 80220 […]
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Seventh North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference
Western literature, politics and ecology will merge at the Seventh North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference. The event is sponsored by the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno, and will take place at the Nugget in Reno. The Feb. 29-March 2 workshop features T.H. Watkins, editor of Wilderness magazine, and […]
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The Snake River, Balancing the Vision
Idaho Rivers United and dozens of private and government agencies are co-sponsoring the fourth bi-annual river symposium: “The Snake River: Balancing the Vision.” Former Gov. Cecil Andrus opens the program, scheduled for Feb. 29-March 2 at the Weston Plaza Hotel in Twin Falls, Idaho. Contact Idaho Rivers United, P.O. Box 633, Boise, ID (800/574-7481). This […]
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Environmental Action “96: Winning in November
L earn grassroots lobbying and election organizing at Environmental Action “96: Winning in November. The free Feb. 24-25 conference features a keynote address by Jim Baca, former director of the BLM, and an environmental forum with Colorado’s U.S. Senate candidates. Sponsors include CoPIRG, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and Campus Greenvote. Contact the University […]
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Costly Yellowstone invasion
COSTLY YELLOWSTONE INVASION There’s little hope of ridding Yellowstone Lake of its invading lake trout, says a report by the National Park Service. The illegally introduced lake trout, discovered by anglers in 1994, could diminish the native cutthroat trout population by 70 percent or more within 100 years. And by disrupting the food chain, the […]
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Subterranean terror
SUBTERRANEAN TERROR “I thought if only I could get out, I’m going to get a whole new perspective on my life, because I’ve faced death square in the face.” * Dennis Workman, who was trapped in a mine for 56 hours This January, a young Utah man plunged 600 feet down a mine shaft on […]
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Dams be damned
DAMS BE DAMNED Activist Yvan Rochon wants to see two dams, built early in the century on Washington’s Elwha River, demolished (HCN, 9/18/95). “They went up as progress and we want to take them down in the name of progress,” says the 35-year-old medical researcher. Rochon and his group, the Elwha Dams Removal Fund, are […]
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Our living resources
OUR LIVING RESOURCES Consider a two-inch-thick tome produced by the federal government and your eyelids are likely to fall. If the volume is Our Living Resources, your reaction could be just the opposite. Anyone interested in ecological issues may find this report indispensable. To begin with, the 530-page document holds page after page of full-color […]
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Small town design
SMALL TOWN DESIGN Conservation and development can go head-to-head in rural America. A new publication describes a two-year project in which landscape architects worked with rural communities to combine the two. The National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service sponsored the arrangement, which placed a landscape architect […]
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A call to uproot roads
After torrential rains in northern Idaho triggered widespread landslides in national forests last November, some Idaho Fish and Game officials are urging the Forest Service not to repair damaged roads. They want the roads either re-engineered or obliterated. “We want them to fix the problem, so those roads aren’t just time bombs waiting to go […]
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Disease threatens bighorn restoration
For decades, wildlife officials from Idaho, Washington and Oregon have worked hard to restore bighorn sheep to the Hells Canyon area. But in December, they feverishly tried to remove them after a deadly outbreak of pneumonia-like pasteurella. Hoping to contain the disease, officials netted 72 sick sheep and transported them by helicopters and trucks to […]
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BuRec gets a new leader
The Bureau of Reclamation, slimmer now after former chief Dan Beard cut 1,500 from its workforce and $107 million from a $911 million budget, has a new boss. “I don’t have any agendas,” says Commissioner Eluid Martinez, who worked as New Mexico’s state engineer for four years. “I just want to do a good job […]
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Politics imperil Mexican wolf comeback
As public hearings on ranching issues go, the Socorro, N.M., session on the endangered Mexican wolf last fall was a rare breed. Hundreds of green-capped environmentalists easily outnumbered ranchers, who more often fill the crowd with a sea of black and white cowboy hats. Environmentalists came dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, the Big Bad […]
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Bad hunters meet good old boys
In Montana, out-of-towners pay a higher price for their hunting and fishing violations, even though locals commit most of the wildlife crimes. Non-residents who illegally killed fish or other wildlife in 1994 spent three times as long in jail as Montanans, according to an Associated Press analysis. They also lost their licenses for an average […]
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For seven days, it will flood
For one week this spring, the Colorado River will rage through the Grand Canyon much as it did before Glen Canyon Dam tamed its flow. The remedy for the canyon’s eroding beaches and silted backwaters was recommended in the 1995 Glen Canyon Dam Environmental Impact Statement. “The ecosystem of the Grand Canyon is based on […]
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Wyden squeaks in
Wyden squeaks in Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden eked out an 18,000-vote victory over State Sen. Gordon Smith in the Jan. 30 election to replace Sen. Bob Packwood. With the national media noting that environmental issues took center stage in the race, environmentalists have been quick to tout Wyden’s victory as part of a backlash against […]
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Let’s get real in New Mexico
Dear HCN: Your article on firewood cutting in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest (HCN, 12/25/95) correctly states that the Mexican spotted owl has only been found in one remote area of the forest. If we are to protect habitat for species that are not there, let’s start at the beginning: Protect the fragile dinosaur habitat. […]
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City hogs
Dear HCN: Your comment about accident rates among four-wheel drives (Heard around the West, HCN, 12/25/95) was pretty amusing – especially so for us (liberal) East Coasters who rarely see any snow in the city of Baltimore. So many yuppies have succumbed to the need to buy these big gas hogs after being influenced by […]