Activists, lawyers and interested individuals can learn the tools and strategies to protect wildland ecosystems and wildlife habitat at the Third Annual Natural Resources Laws Conference. The May 7-8 event at Montana State University in Bozeman features speakers from advocacy groups including the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and The Sonoran Institute. For registration information, visit the […]
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Northern Arizona Book Festival
Twenty authors, including environmental writers, will present their work at the Northern Arizona Book Festival in Flagstaff, Ariz., April 28-30. Ann Zwinger, William deBuys and Ana Castillo are a few of the authors on tap. For more information, call Rick Swanson at 520/774-9118 or visit the Web site at www.flagstaffcentral.com/bookfest. This article appeared in the […]
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High Desert Conference
Burns, Ore., is the site for the 22nd annual High Desert Conference, April 27-30, a magnet for those who love the dry and wild landscape. Field trips, slide shows, speakers and the Desert Rat Poetry Festival are slated, plus contra dancing to a live band. Contact Gilly Lyons at the Oregon Natural Desert Association at […]
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Earth Day 2000, April 22
Events and celebrations are taking place throughout the West for Earth Day 2000, April 22, including an All Species of the Earth Day in Santa Fe, N.M., a Jammin” for Salmon musical celebration in Bellingham, Wash., and a Grand Canyon Forest Festival in Flagstaff, Ariz. Visit www.earthday.net for the complete schedule, or call the Earth […]
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Environmental Justice in Natural Resources
The Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder is sponsoring a two-day workshop, Environmental Justice in Natural Resources, beginning April 14 with a “Talking Circle” at the LODO Tattered Cover bookstore in Denver, Colo. Keynote speaker April 15 is Patricia Limerick from the Center of the American West. Call Kathryn Mutz, […]
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A new generation comes to terms with Lake Powell
The loss of Glen Canyon to Lake Powell grieves many people deeply, including those too young to have known “the place no one knew.” At 25, Provo, Utah, native Jared Farmer has known only Lake Powell, the prized destination of a new generation. Yet in his new book, Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and […]
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A letter fans the flames
NEVADA When Humboldt-Toiyabe Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora resigned last November, she said local hostility toward federal employees was a major reason for stepping down (HCN, 11/22/99: Nevadans drive out forest supervisor). Now, a letter has surfaced from a county official that supports her words. In a Dec. 30, 1998, letter to public land-use advisor Gene […]
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Reclaiming a golden landscape
MONTANA A court-ordered cleanup plan for the Golden Sunlight Mine in western Montana marks the beginning of a golden era of mine reclamation, say local environmentalists. “For the first time since the West was opened by miners, people have stood up and told the mining industry that they can’t leave a ravaged landscape when a […]
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The Wayward West
A national land trust recently preserved over 21,000 acres as open space between Denver and Colorado Springs, Colo. (HCN, 2/28/00: Acre by acre). The tract, which is the largest area of undeveloped land remaining along Colorado’s Front Range, was sold last week to The Conservation Fund, a Boulder, Colo.-based land trust, and Douglas County. “People […]
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Incinerator plans go up in smoke
WYOMING Last April, Wilson, Wyo., resident Mary Mitchell called the Jackson Hole News demanding to know more about plans to burn nuclear waste at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. But Jackson papers had paid no attention to the Department of Energy’s plans to build an incinerator in eastern Idaho, even though the facility […]
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Learning to think like a region
Environmental issues have nothing to do with political boundaries
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The infinite West reaches its limits
Undaunted optimism runs up against a finite landscape
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In search of a politics of union
So far, a bigger table for decision-making has not led to more agreement, just more litigation
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Notes from a fence-sitter
Though extremists on either side would never admit it, ranchers and greens care about the same things
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How to get right side up again
Instead of propping up corporate agriculture, let’s subsidize small farmers
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The Old West is small potatoes in the new economy
Local and state governments are no match for the massive corporations moving in on the West’s open spaces
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Indian reservations: Environmental refuge or homeland?
To non-Indians, reservations look like vast de facto wildlife areas. But that’s not what they’re for.
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The West’s power game
The West is caught between congressional representatives beholden to resource industries, and federal officials with a conservation agenda. Can we find a middle ground?
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An industry booster becomes a supporter of Western land
There is nothing remotely radical about Alvin M. Josephy Jr., or if there is, he hides it in his memoir, A Walk Toward Oregon. There was a comfortable childhood in Manhattan; well-to-do relatives like his uncle, the founder of the firm that published this book; a couple of years at Harvard, until his father’s financial […]
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Water deal could drain New Mexico’s small towns
Northern New Mexico farmers fear cities will suck their communities dry