Hunting issue reverberates From Montana writer Scott McMillion about our exploration of some issues surrounding hunting (HCN, 12/11/95): “The top of the food chain is a pretty good place to be, and don’t forget: More money is spent each year on hunting than on movie tickets.” From California reader Bryan Hill: “Anti-hunters have a moral […]
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Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
Hunting: Get used to it
Let me state right off and as unapologetically as possible that I am a member of the “hook-and-bullet” press – a field editor of the venerable Outdoor Life magazine, which along with its sister publication, Field & Stream, are America’s original conservation magazines. Both have been in business since before the turn of the century, […]
Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
Heard Around the West
Movies about Nevada’s casino life always seem to revolve around gangsters, call girls and stool pigeons. In a shocking reversal of that trend, pigeon stools brought down the marquee of the Golden Spike Casino in Carson City this month. “We are concerned about it,” casino co-owner Jim Bawden told the Reno Gazette-Journal in an article […]
Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
Hanford: Boomtown of the atomic frontier
At the beginning of World War II, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr told American scientists that “to get the fissionable materials necessary to make a bomb, you’re going to have to turn the whole country into a factory.” He exaggerated, of course. The factory took up counties, not countries. The Hanford Engineering Works in a […]
Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
For further reading
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, At Hanford, the real estate is hot. Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex, by Paul Loeb, 1986, New Society Publishers. Loeb looks at the nation’s largest nuclear weapons complex through the eyes of the people working there and details […]
Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
Hanford’s prime cuts
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, At Hanford, the real estate is hot. Four pieces of Hanford will likely spur the most contention as prospective landlords jocky for control. The Hanford Reach encompasses the last 51 undammed miles of the Columbia River and is a significant spawning area for endangered […]
Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
Amid the lovely the lethal remains
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, At Hanford, the real estate is hot. During the four decades the Hanford Nuclear Reservation produced weapons-grade plutonium, it laced eastern Washington’s soil, water and air with radioactive sludge that may never disappear. Recently, Hanford also became synonymous with human radiation experiments that make […]
Posted inJanuary 22, 1996: At Hanford, the real estate is hot
At Hanford, the real estate is hot
To become a Yakima Nation warrior, a young man had to run from the top of Rattlesnake Mountain to the Columbia River and back to the mountain top. That meant dropping 2,400 feet to the valley floor, sprinting 10 miles to the water, and then returning to climb this rise, which looks like a crumpled […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
They’re stepping down
Two powerful Western Republicans announced they would not seek re-election in 1996. Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said in early December that he would step down because “Thirty years of voluntary separation from the state I love is enough.” Soon after, Alan Simpson of Wyoming said that he, too, […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Allard takes aim
Last April, the League of Conservation Voters awarded Colorado Rep. Wayne Allard a score of zero for his environmental votes during his first 100 days in office. Now, Allard’s rating might dip into the negative numbers. A provision of Allard’s in the 1995 Farm Bill would prohibit the Forest Service from changing management plans to […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Round two for a grazing bill
Three months after a coalition of environmentalists, hunters and anglers shot down his grazing bill, Republican Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico has resurrected it (HCN, 8/21/95). The new version is 60 pages leaner and ensures public-lands access for fishing, hunting, and other recreational uses. Ranchers like the new bill and its emphasis on cooperation […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Judge says counties aren’t supreme
In a blow to the county supremacy movement in Nevada, a federal court charged an Elk County resident with trespassing and ordered him to remove his cattle from a national forest. The court said Cliff Gardner illegally moved livestock onto the Humboldt National Forest in May 1994 despite repeated Forest Service requests that he apply […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Dan Dagget’s solution is simple – too simple
Dear HCN, Dan Dagget’s essay (-It’s unAmerican, or at best unWestern, but cooperation works,” HCN, 10/16/95)is a clean and tidy one-size-fits-all solution to the environmental crisis. Certainly cooperation has its place in the scheme of things. Yet many environmental problems are international in scope and interconnected in nature. Suggesting that cooperation is the only or […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Idaho is a cheap date
Dear HCN, The deal that Idaho’s Gov. Batt worked out with the DOE is a bad deal for Idaho and a bad deal for the rest of the West (HCN, 11/13/95). The pressure that Gov. Batt claimed to be feeling was coming mainly from Idaho’s congressional delegation and, I suspect, from his political funders. Without […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Short takes
Coeur d’Alene Resort will serve as the backdrop for “Dynamics of Northern Idaho Forests: A Symposium on Plants, Animals and People,” Feb. 2-3. Sponsors include the Sierra Club, the Intermountain Forest Industries Association and the Bureau of Land Management. Write North Idaho Forest Symposium, P.O. Box 564, Potlatch, ID 83855 (208/875-1528). Chip away at today’s […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Bird Brains
-If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.” * Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, c. 1880s Like coyotes, some members of the crow family have long been considered vermin. Scruffy crows steal crops; ravens rip into garbage; magpies and jays steal eggs and nestlings from “innocent” […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Agency chooses death
Killing is the method most frequently used by the federal government to control livestock predators such as coyotes, lions and bears, according to a recent report by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Although guidelines for Animal Damage Control staff require them to consider non-lethal methods of control first, federal investigators found […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
DOE’s little list
Environmental journalists interested in knowing how they measure up have a new yardstick: a rating by the Department of Energy. In a report made public in early November, the DOE ranked reporters by how they treated the agency – a 100 score being most favorable. “As far as I’m concerned, if you have too good […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
Do-it-yourself preservation
With just a handful of federal agents patrolling millions of square miles of the West, it’s not surprising that looting and vandalism of Indian artifacts are rampant. But with budget cuts portending even less money for enforcement, where will help on the ground come from? One answer is from volunteers, people who give their time […]
Posted inDecember 25, 1995: Utah hearings misfire
For media mavens
The first-ever Media and Democracy Congress invites journalists to San Francisco for four days to hear 52 speakers, including Backlash author Susan Faludi, National Public Radio’s Ray Suarez and Victor Navasky of the Nation magazine. Up for discussion: “Publishing activism: How to transform readers and consumers into citizen activists,” “Commercialism: The quest for truth in […]