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, […]
Environmental Justice in Natural Resources
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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
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Boss must pay for poisoning employee
A judge hands down the first-ever conviction for knowingly exposing an employee to hazardous waste
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Gentlemen, stop your engines!
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “Zion takes tourists out of their cars.” The Park Service philosophy of accommodating humans and their machines is changing. The first sign came on March 13, when officials announced that they were leaning toward banning snowmobiles in […]
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Zion takes tourists out of their cars
One of the nation’s most popular parks invites visitors to ride the bus
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The beauty of self-reliance
Reader Portia Masterson walked into the office on a drizzly day in late March. It was an unusual moment for a couple of reasons: first, Portia usually sticks close to her home in Golden, near Denver; second, when she’s out and about, she’s usually riding her bike. Masterson owns Self-Propulsion Inc., a bike shop that […]