The price of a movie ticket or six gallons of premium gasoline is now the going rate for a pair of coyote ears in two southeastern Colorado counties. Baca County now pays $7.50 per coyote, the first bounty in Colorado in almost 30 years. Since January, the bounty has brought in 412 pairs of ears. […]
Counties put a bounty on coyotes
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Heard around the West
A house in Taylorsville, Utah, was suddenly drenched by a foul-smelling liquid, according to The Denver Post. When the sewage fell from the sky, the homeowner beseeched Salt Lake City International Airport for help, logging in more than 60 phone calls. The official response? It’s not our problem. The city’s fire department finally accepted responsibility, […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Congress searches for a ‘green conspiracy’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress does not just sit around and pass laws. Nosiree, Bob. It makes sure the executive branch does its job right. This is known as congressional oversight, and it helps to keep the big boys honest. When a government project goes awry, a congressional committee will track down the facts, expose the […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Star light, star bright, where are you tonight?
Growing up in Canyonlands National Park in the 1940s and ’50s, Alan Wilson often took camping trips into remote areas of Utah with his father, Bates Wilson, Canyonlands’ first superintendent. “The sky was absolutely brilliant at night,” Alan Wilson recalls. Last summer, Wilson returned to Canyonlands. Instead of finding a stark, black sky filled with […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Quincy Library Group bars outsiders
The Quincy Library Group, nationally acclaimed for its open and politically diverse membership, will be holding some of its meetings behind closed doors. The restriction, adopted March 30 in a unanimous voice vote, is to prevent disruptions the group fears from longtime opponents of its controversial forest management plan for three national forests in the […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Western weather: feast or famine
In February, Washington’s Mount Baker Ski Area was forced to turn skiers away for two days – a storm had buried even the chairlifts in snow. Boasting 90 feet of snow, the mountain is very close to setting a world record for yearly snowfall. Neighboring Mount Rainier isn’t far behind with 77 feet. Getting much […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Dear Friends
Out of the courts Robert Amon, the grandfather of the Earth First! forest protests at Idaho’s Cove-Mallard (HCN, 9/2/96), wrote us recently to share his good news. For the first time in more than five years, he tells us, he is legally untangled. The last lawsuit against him was dropped by Highland Enterprises, an Idaho […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
‘It’s like the Manhattan Project…’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Michael Soulé: “We live in an extraordinarily bleak period for nature. Things are going to get worse before they get better. We’ll lose, I would guess, half of the world’s species in the next 50 years. It’s quite tragic – and preventable. The degree […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
‘This is not a radical notion…’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Dave Foreman: “Earth First!, as far as I’m concerned, died in 1988. All the urban anarchist children – the monkey-wrenching types – started the modern Earth First! (after I left). It is not even a descendent of the original. All they wanted was stories […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Can science heal the land?
From the air, west-central New Mexico is a sea of brown, lined here and there with a dry riverbed or peppered with juniper and mesquite. In places, the vegetation is so sparse that from 3,000 feet up, you can make out the pockmarks of kangaroo rat colonies. “They look like smallpox vaccinations,” says Merry Schroeder, […]
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Extra photos to Visionaries or Dreamers
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Extra photos to Visionaries or Dreamers.
Posted inApril 26, 1999: Visionaries or dreamers?
Visionaries or dreamers?
“Our vision is simple. We live for the day when grizzlies in Chihuahua have an unbroken connection to grizzlies in Alaska; when gray wolf populations are continuous from New Mexico to Greenland; when vast unbroken forests and flowing plains again thrive and support pre-Columbian populations of plants and animals; when humans dwell with respect, harmony, […]
Posted inAugust 16, 1999: Standing up for the underdog
Standing up for the underdog
On a sunny fall day about a year ago, Jonathan Proctor arrived in the prairie community of Chadron, Neb., for an evening of proselytizing. Though groomed to become a Lutheran minister like his father, the boyish-looking 31-year-old had not come to town to save souls. His was a more difficult task. He would try to […]
Posted inApril 12, 1999: Is trapping doomed?
Nothing is everything
THE SPACE CLOSEST TO OUR BODIES Imagine some tan grass and sage, monoliths and blow outs, flatness the feet cannot believe, distance the eye laughs at as it fumbles blindly with the ends of all time. Imagine everything here moves (even the cactus will come close to a sleeping man and the beetle will tunnel […]
Posted inApril 12, 1999: Is trapping doomed?
Draining Lake Powell
Colorado College hosts a debate about one of the more contentious proposals today in the West – draining Lake Powell. Floyd Dominy, former Bureau of Reclamation commissioner, and Dave Wegner, who directed environmental studies in Glen Canyon, take up the question April 21 at 7 p.m. at the college’s Packard Hall in Colorado Springs. Contact […]
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Wyoming Wildlife Federation
The Wyoming Wildlife Federation’s 53rd annual meeting in Story, Wyo., May 15-16, features an awards banquet, guided tours, a Raffle Extravaganza and dancing to Cajun/Latin music. Call 800/786-5434 or write the federation at P.O. Box 106, Cheyenne, WY 82003. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Wyoming Wildlife Federation.
Posted inApril 12, 1999: Is trapping doomed?
Earle A. Chiles Award
The High Desert Museum is calling for nominations for the 1999 Earle A. Chiles Award, given to honor thoughtful management of natural and cultural resources of the High Desert. Nominations are due May 31. For details, contact Binnie Rowe, 59800 S. Highway 97, Bend, OR 97702-7963, (541/382-4754), browe@highdesert.org This article appeared in the print edition […]
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Desert Conference
Desert wildlands activists discuss grazing reform in the Great Basin April 29-May 2 at the 21st annual Desert Conference in southeastern Oregon. Todd Wilkinson, author of Science Under Siege, is a speaker and lots of field trips are available. Write the Oregon Natural Desert Association, 16 NW Kansas, Bend, OR 97701, or call 503/525-0193. This […]
Posted inApril 12, 1999: Is trapping doomed?
A River of Dreams and Realities
At the Arkansas River Basin Water Forum, A River of Dreams and Realities, in Caûon City, Colo., April 23-24, ranchers, Bureau of Reclamation managers, members of the U.S. Geological Survey and locals will try to find solutions for a resource too much in demand. For registration, contact Pat Clifford at CSU Cooperative Extension, 411 N. […]
Posted inApril 12, 1999: Is trapping doomed?
Dr. Jane Goodall
Primate expert and author Dr. Jane Goodall will speak on “Chimpanzees: So like us’ at the Snow King Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on April 27 at 7 p.m. Goodall, brought to Jackson by the nonprofit Murie Center, has researched primate behavior for decades and has made a series of discoveries that have changed the […]