OREGON For years, a bureaucratic gap in Oregon law has allowed some ranchers to violate the Clean Water Act by allowing their cows’ manure to seep into rivers. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down. So far, the EPA has fined 10 Oregon ranchers – some as much as $50,000 – while also requiring […]
EPA reins in ranchers
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Heard around the West
Oh, to be a stray in San Francisco, where a software billionaire’s gift has made animal homelessness a Cinderella experience. Once picked up from the streets, cats, for example, move to a loft where they can choose to watch mice run on television or loll on top of a six-foot climbing tree. Piped-in air to […]
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Cure or curse?
As Chronic Wasting Disease appears again, questions arise about the velvet antler trade
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Troubled harvest
Washington’s fruit industry is a hotbed of federal immigration policy gone wrong
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Feds fight chaos in a desert playground
ORVs are banned from more than half of California’s Algodones Dunes
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When two traditions collide
Controversy surrounds a tribe’s request to gather eagles in a national monument
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People for the USA! disbands
The wise-use movement’s shrillest voice goes silent, but the spirit lives on
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Dear Friends
A skipped issue This is both the last issue of the year and the last issue for a month. In July and in early January, High Country News lets readers catch up on their reading and the staff catch up on their breathing. The next issue will be dated Jan. 15. A new printer and […]
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Still here
Can humans help other species defy extinction?
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Petersen intolerant of different ethics
Dear HCN, David Petersen claims to be a hunter, but writes like an Animal Rights Fanatic (ARF). He follows the pattern of the typical activist, changing the names of things to disguise their true nature. Thus ranch hunts become the evil canned hunts. Reading his opinion piece, “When hunting becomes staggeringly stupid” (HCN, 10/23/00: When […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
A fish is a fish is a fish
Dear HCN, Contrary to the subtle assertions made by Mike Stark in his article titled “Killing salmon to save the species” (HCN, 10/9/00: Killing salmon to save the species), many people, from state to federal officials throughout the Northwest, were and are still angry, indeed outraged, at the salmon-clubbing episode that occurred in Oregon and […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Pastoral letter resonates
Dear HCN, Thank you for the copy of your story about the Catholic Church’s pastoral letter to help people appreciate the sacred and divine nature of the Columbia River watershed (HCN, 9/11/00: Holy water: The Catholic Church seeks to restore the Columbia River and the church’s relevance to the natural world). I fell in love […]
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One half-vast dam
Dear HCN, Ed Marston’s visit to the Teton Dam disaster, described in his “Truth telling” essay (HCN, 9/25/00: Truth-telling needs a home in the West), reminded me of my involvement with that dam. In 1971, Gov. Cecil Andrus appointed me as the token environmentalist to the Idaho Water Resource Board. We soon thereafter visited the […]
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Great Backyard Bird Count
Hundreds of thousands of people nationwide will take to the field Feb. 16-19, 2001, for the Great Backyard Bird Count. The National Audubon Society and Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology sponsor the event. Find out about it at www.birdsource.org or call 800/843-2473. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline […]
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Saving Places 2001
Colorado Preservation Inc. invites anyone interested in preserving historic and diverse cultural sites to Saving Places 2001. The event will take place Feb. 2-3, 2001, at the Denver Athletic Club and will feature tours, workshops, social events and speakers. For more information, call 303/893-4260 or write: 910 16th St. #1100, Denver, CO 80202. This article […]
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Cattle grazing hurts
Cattle grazing hurts arid ecosystems in North America, says the Western North American Naturalist journal in a recent review of research. Allison Jones of the Wild Utah Project says grazing is a significant source of soil erosion. The WNAN journal Web site is at www.lib.byu.edu/~nms/. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine […]
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Alliance for Justice
A new handbook published by the nonprofit Alliance for Justice explains how nonprofit organizations can use their funds to influence legislation, walking readers through filing a tax form that allows more money to be used for lobbying. To order a free copy of Worry-Free Lobbying for Nonprofits: How to Use the 501(h) Election to Maximize […]
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Ferrets are back in town
Black-footed ferrets once roamed the prairies of South Dakota. But the destruction of prairie dog towns vastly reduced the ferret’s habitat and pushed it onto the endangered species list. Now, the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe is restoring ferrets to the reservation, where the predators fill an important niche in the fast-disappearing shortgrass prairie ecosystem. So […]
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Backtracking
“Western road maps are full of old trails: the Lewis and Clark Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Sante Fe Trail, the Outlaw Trail, and the Nez Perce Trail. Their vague lines connect the West that was to the West that is. They may even stretch to the West we imagine will be. But underneath them, […]
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Yosemite shuffles into a new era
Many of the 4 million visitors to Yosemite each year remember the national park for its towering granite cliffs, magnificent glacial valleys – and for its congestion. On Nov. 14, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt unveiled a new management plan that he says will reduce traffic and help restore the park’s natural habitat. Though park officials […]