Excerpts from the House subcommittee staff report revealdetails of of Lorraine Mintzmyer’s transfer and changes to Yellowstone’s “Vision” document. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Interference in environmental programs by political appointees.
Interference in environmental programs by political appointees
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Conspiracy destroyed a Vision for Yellowstone
A Bush administration conspiracy destroys a plan for environmental protection in Yellowstone and costs a Park Service official her job. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Conspiracy destroyed a Vision for Yellowstone.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
FAA limits canyon flights, yet again
The FAA agrees to strictly enforce flight-free zones over the Grand Canyon. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline FAA limits canyon flights, yet again.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Hikers are fenced out of wilderness
A housing development blocks access to Arizona’s Coronado National Forest. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Hikers are fenced out of wilderness.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Colorado mining industry strikes again
According to the EPA, bonds from the Summitville Consolidated Mining Co. don’t cover hazardous waste cleanup costs. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Colorado mining industry strikes again.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Critics say agency is eating its young
Transfers among Forest Service employees from several Idaho national forests are political, employees say. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Critics say agency is eating its young.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Bruce Babbitt will manage a fragmented and dysfunctional Department of the Interior. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?.
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
The new Secretary of the Interior – Bruce Babbitt
High Country News — January 25, 1993 The new Secretary of the Interior – Bruce Babbitt The new Secretary of Interior once explained why he became head of the League of Conservation Voters: “I always wanted to be president of something.” Bruce Babbitt had wanted to be president of the United States; but his thoughtful […]
Posted inJanuary 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Babbitt’s domain: 1.9 billion acres
The domain of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt encompasses a $7.25 billion budget, 75,000 employees, and more than 500 million acres of land onshore, and another 1.4 billion acres offshore. Interior’s holdings sprawl across the nation. It manages everything from the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York to San Francisco’s Golden Gate National […]
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
WIPP takes one giant step forward
A bitter, five-year congressional fight over the world’s first engineered nuclear waste dump has been settled in time-honored fashion: in the back room. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
Wildlife ‘refuges’ play host to bombers, cattle and jetskiers
Wildlife refuges have never been just for wildlife. The 90 million-acre national wildlife refuge system also hosts military maneuvers, cattle, hunters, boaters and other “secondary” users. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
Idaho may go to court to save salmon
The battle to save the endangered Snake River salmon from extinction heated up this month, as Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus threatened to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies responsible for salmon recovery plans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
Forest Service is trying to turn over a new leaf, but critics have doubts
The U.S. Forest Service believes there is a clear patch of land in Montana that affords a clear view of the future’s enlightened forestry. The problem is, the agency’s own past sometimes sullies the view. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
BLM may adopt grazing incentive plan
Prodded by stinging internal audits” and the likelihood that Congress will pass a sweeping reform bill in 1993, Bureau of Land Management officials are pushing a new grazing fee policy they hope will resolve the controversy over use of public lands by livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
Audubon’s ‘ranch’ ungrazed, but used
It’s hard to find prime grassland where you don’t see signs of grazing. This is what makes the National Audubon Society’s Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch near Elgin, Ariz., so valuable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong ... and is it time for a new approach?
An Idaho forest is told: Log
Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest has gone through three supervisors in the last four years as the debate over timber sales causes rifts in Montana and Idaho communities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong ... and is it time for a new approach?
Hopi-Navajo dispute enters new phase
In a bold move to resolve the bitter land dispute between the Hopi and Navajo tribes, the United States government is attempting to award the Native Americans about 500,000 acres surrounding Flagstaff. Download entire issue to view this article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong ... and is it time for a new approach?
Tactics, vision split Montana environmentalists
Last month the House of Representatives passed a 1.48 million-acre wilderness bill for Montana that brought cheers from cheers from some conservation groups and objections from others. Download entire issue to view this article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Pressure builds to change remote park
Chaco Canyon is a battleground, with tourists, environmentalists, business interests and Navajos jousting over whether to build a paved road to a park now served only by dirt roads. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Is BLM running down a rare species?
On the wet meadows of western Colorado’s Chance Gulch, a rare game bird’s dance floor may soon be too hot to trot. These sage-covered hills and grassy draws support the last stable breeding population of the Gunnison sage grouse. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue