Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Starting a war at Ohio State. It is difficult to understand this article in this text rendition of the print original. Scanned copies of the original can be obtained from HCN. THE MEMO WAR 1989-1993 The Memo War started when Kamyar Enshayan wrote […]
The Memo War: 1989-1993
Posted inMay 1, 1995: Land grants under the microscope
Starting a war at Ohio State
An untenured academic challenged his colleagues, farmers and students to think deeply about the land-grant mission
Posted inMay 1, 1995: Land grants under the microscope
The gospel according to Wes Jackson
He believes we can grow food without chemicals, plows or erosion
Posted inMay 1, 1995: Land grants under the microscope
Land-grant professor offers Navajo herds a helping hand
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Trying to save two of the parts. It’s a daunting proposition: Take 100,000 Navajo sheep producers, 25,000 native weavers, 24,000 square miles of high desert rangeland and 300,000 sheep and goats, and figure out how to improve life for all of them. But […]
Posted inMay 1, 1995: Land grants under the microscope
Trying to save two of the parts
Utah State University’s Lyle McNeal has spent 20 years reviving Churro sheep and Navajo agriculture
Posted inMay 1, 1995: Land grants under the microscope
Land grants under the microscope
Scrutinized from all sides, they defend their turf and look for new ideas
Posted inAugust 21, 1995: HCN's founder fights his last fight, yet again
Tom Bell
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, HCN’s founder fights his last fight, yet again. Tom Bell: “The issue of the proposed Altamont natural gas pipeline being constructed through historic South Pass in Wyoming should be a case study in how government should not work. Thanks to rogue agencies and rogues […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
The people problem
THE PEOPLE PROBLEM Is bigger better? The effects of population growth on the people of Utah and the state’s environment will be discussed at a conference in Salt Lake City, April 29. Keynote speaker Judith Jacobsen, a consultant to the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, will talk about the international conference on population held in […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Land grant says wilderness hurts
Land grant says Wilderness hurts A new study by Utah State University, a land-grant institution, concludes that federally designated wilderness could harm rural economies. The study, which features a picture of a paved road running through southern Utah on its cover, drew immediate praise from anti-wilderness groups. “This study validates what the counties in Utah […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Blueprint for salmon survival
Blueprint for SALMON survival The new recovery plan to bring back endangered Columbia and Snake river salmon hits all “four H’s’ – hydropower dams, habitat degradation, hatcheries and harvest by fishing – but critics charge it’s still too soft on dams. The 500-page federal plan, required by the Endangered Species Act and announced by the […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Restoring the Truckee River
Restoring the Truckee River The Truckee River has been unraveling from its headwaters at Lake Tahoe to its terminus in Pyramid Lake. But now people along its course through California and Nevada are trying to figure out ways to braid the river back to health. A Truckee River Conference, April 27-29 in Reno, will bring […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
How does a boom feel?
How does a boom feel? Everyone who lives in the West is a transplant or has felt the impact of migration; few places have not experienced the region’s booms and busts. What makes urbanites pull up stakes, and how is the latest influx affecting Western land and communities? Academics such as geography professor Bill Riebsame […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Outdoor museum preserved for now
OUTDOOR MUSEUM PRESERVED FOR NOW Two geologists working for the Bureau of Land Management in Boise, Idaho, began documenting a treasure trove four years ago: the carved bedrock of the Big Wood River, some 12 miles north of Shoshone. Terry Maley and Peter Oberlindacher were fascinated by the complex shapes that turbulent water, beginning some […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Washington and the West
Washington and the West Ed Marston, High Country News publisher, and Guy Martin, former assistant secretary for Land and Water with the U.S. Interior Department, will discuss what Washington’s changing guard means for an also-changing West. “The New Congress and the New West,” set for Boulder, Colo., April 26, is one of the forums on […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Endangered act on tour
Endangered act on tour Members of the House Committee on (Natural) Resources, chaired by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, will be in Vancouver, Wash., April 24 to discuss the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. Panels organized by Republicans will feature working people who have had their livelihoods affected by the law, says staffer Steve Hansen, […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Wild again
After several days of milling around their newly opened pens, all 14 Yellowstone Park wolves are wild once more. Most of the wolves remain in packs, but two young wolves are traveling solo, according to park spokeswoman Marsha Karle. The wolves have killed a buffalo and possibly an elk inside the park, which Karle says […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
A modest proposal
Utah county commissioners passed wilderness recommendations on to Gov. Mike Leavitt March 31, and, as expected, they didn’t ask for much. The counties recommended about 1 million acres of Bureau of Land Management wilderness – about half what the BLM itself recommended and one-sixth of that urged by the Utah Wilderness Coalition. The counties left […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
A grim Wyoming hearing for BLM and greens
WORLAND, Wyo. – Colored balloons decorating the Elks Club here April 3 did little to lighten the hostile atmosphere of a public hearing on the BLM’s new plan for managing a million acres in northwest Wyoming. The area is called Grass Creek, and it takes in roughly a third of the Bighorn Basin, ranging from […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Back to grazing reform … maybe
With little fanfare, the Bureau of Land Management released “final” livestock grazing regulations Feb. 17. The new regulations look much like those forwarded in a draft last spring, with the glaring exception of grazing fees, which Department of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt dropped from his Rangeland Reform package shortly before Christmas (HCN, 1/23/95). Environmentalists say […]
Posted inApril 17, 1995: The New West's servant economy
Big groups drop appeal
Big groups drop appeal Eleven environmental groups, including the Wilderness Society and National Audubon Society, have decided not to appeal a recent federal court decision upholding President Clinton’s Pacific Northwest forest plan, known as Option Nine. While the groups agree the plan fails to protect and restore the heavily logged ecosystem, they say they’ll focus […]