IDAHO Idaho farmworkers now are entitled to the same right laborers across the nation have had for decades: a minimum wage (HCN, 12/18/00: Troubled harvest). Until recently, Idaho farmworkers were paid by the amount of apples they picked or the number of trees they pruned. But now, if that rate isn’t equal to at least […]
Farmworkers reap a minimum wage
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
The Latest Bounce
President George W. Bush has nominated J. Steven Griles to serve as deputy secretary of the Interior. If confirmed by the Senate as second in command, Griles would help Secretary Gale Norton create policy and manage Interior’s eight bureaus (HCN, 1/15/01: Coloradan tapped for Interior). Currently a lobbyist who represents the National Mining Association, Griles […]
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Heard around the West
Boing, boing, boing … Ridgway, Colo., sculptor Clifton Barr looked up from work in his metal and wood studio and saw a large, antlered deer “jumping like a bucking horse” in the neighbor’s yard, reports the Ouray County Plaindealer. Barr did a double take and took off his glasses just to make sure, but when […]
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A quick resource guide for teachers of the wild
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. If teachers take the initiative, they can search the Internet and find instant access to a host of environmental education materials from a wide variety of pro-environment and government sources. Here is a partial list: Teachers new to the field might want to visit […]
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Science teachers go local
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Though every second-grader knows the word “environment,” many will never get any training in environmental studies until they go to college. But they would be assured of it if they got into Jeff Mitchell’s high school biology class in the logging town of Philomath, […]
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How green is this Tree?
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. What better way to learn about ecology than to study trees? That’s what the founders of Project Learning Tree thought more than two decades ago, when they began one of the most successful environmental education programs in the nation. Today, more than 25 million […]
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The tale of a salmon slinger
NEHALEM RIVER, Ore. – My throwing arm always left something to be desired. A decent hitter, I was always a disaster on the softball field. Even when I could catch the ball, I couldn’t throw it to save my life. I didn’t think about that, though, when I signed on with Oregon’s Department of Fish […]
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The environmental movement is a-muddle
Green groups try to find a few friends in high places
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Luxury looms over Moab
A planned upscale resort has activists fearing “Aspenization”
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Forest supervisor faces down oil drilling
The public lands aren’t open for business – yet
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Parks test skiers’ green resolve
Backcountry recreators asked to give bighorn sheep some elbow-room
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Republicans undermine a bedrock environmental law
Industry launches an all-out assault on the Montana Environmental Policy Act
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U.S. mills fall under Canadian ax
Flood of Canadian timber hurts U.S. markets and the earth
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Dear Friends
The Ides of March It’s hard not to get a case of spring fever these days, though Mother Nature is being her typical, contradictory self in western Colorado. Just as the first crocuses and daffodils pushed their green heads through the soil last week, a Pacific storm dumped a foot of cement-like snow on Paonia, […]
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Teach the children well
Corporations, conservationists vie for students’ minds in the unregulated world of environmental education
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
In praise of pragmatism
Dear HCN, I thoroughly enjoyed your essay, “Rearranging the grid” (HCN, 1/29/01: Rearranging the grid), as I do most of what you write. I have become a little jaded at the stridence of environmental writing today, the constant inferences that, indeed, the sky is falling. After 77 years, I know better. Your graphic description of […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Margolis blasts the wrong people
Dear HCN, Jon Margolis has my hackles up again. In his article about weirdness in Washington, D.C. (HCN, 1/29/01: Weirdness abounds in Washington), I expected comments on Clinton paying off like a broken slot machine for “rich” patrons, or the Clintons registering for gifts (before her confirmation) so the payola would beat the ethics deadline […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Bicycles still not OHVs
Dear HCN, In his Bulletin Board story on the BLM’s OHV Strategy (HCN, 1/29/01: Agency will try to track trails), Matt Jenkins wrote that the Strategy “will now include … possibly even human-powered vehicles like mountain bikes.” It’s important to note that BLM chose to not include bicycling in its OHV Strategy. BLM’s decision came […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Reborn Interior? That dog won’t hunt
Dear HCN, I read Ed Marston’s article, titled “Bush administration faces a reborn Interior,” and got a funny feeling in my stomach. I believe Ed is way off base believing the Bush administration will not succeed in using the so-called “reborn Interior” as the typical exploiters’ treasure trove. I see no evidence from the choices […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Don’t glorify Babbitt
Dear HCN, As a forester for 20-odd years and as a follower of HCN’s coverage of Western resource issues, I still hold out hope for improvements in the effectiveness and acceptability of public resource stewardship, despite the ongoing media and propaganda warfare. Overall, I agree with a minority of HCN’s slants on things, disagree with […]