Following Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora's banning of new
oil and gas leases on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, Sen. Max
Baucus has a bill to ban oil and gas exploration on surrounding
forests as well.
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New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici is trying to push a
controversial six-lane highway through Albuquerque's Petroglyph
National Monument.
The EPA fines ASARCO $62 million with most of the money
going to clean up a copper mine in Ray, Ariz., and a smelter in
East Helena, Mont.
Nez Perce fire wolf man Timm Kaminski; Helen Chenoweth
defends property rights; Zortman-Landusky mine closes; Utah's
Lisbon Valley mine going ahead; Victor, Colo., gold mine must come
clean.
The 20th annual High Desert Conference is slated for April
30-May 3 at the Malheur Field Station near Burns, Ore.
Public land agencies in Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska
have issued a guide to high school groups and college students for
hands-on experience.
Gov. Jim Geringer of Wyoming will speak to biologists and
ranchers on "Are Feedgrounds Forever?" at the Wyoming Wildlife
Federation annual meeting May 15-17 in Dubois, Wyo.
The 101st National Western Mining Conference and
Exhibition will be held April 15-18 in Colorado Springs,
Colo.
The third annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium features
Aldo Leopold's Legacy, April 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Photographer Bruce Hucko's exhibit "Images from an Untamed
Land" celebrates the Four Corners region.
Photographer Sara Wiles exhibits 20 years of powerful
photographs of Wyoming's Arapaho people.
A grand jury's "secret" report on Colorado's Rocky Flats
bomb factory reveals a reckless decade at the nuclear weapons plant
before it was closed in 1989.
An audit shows that money intended for Colorado state
wildlife programs has been spent to buy land for prisons in Rifle
and Delta.
Locals and critics charge that Vail Associates is using a
ski area expansion as an excuse to develop the area and sell
valuable real estate at the expense of elk and lynx
habitat.
Idaho Gov. Phil Batt defends state; Stone Container Corp.
settlement; Oregon's Wes Cooley back again; Rep. Chris Cannon loves
Lake Powell; USFS buys Valles Caldera in New Mexico.
The National Park Service is being sued by three
environmental organizations for allowing private "bioprospecting"
in Yellowstone National Park and backing off from its mandate to
protect the park's resources.
All media in Colorado that have covered the issue of
sustainability are eligible to apply for a media award from the
University of Colorado's Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community
Development Policy.
Reservations for camping in Glacier National Park may be
made up to three months in advance, beginning March 15,
1998.
The Forest Service will hold 25 open houses about its
proposed 18-month moratorium on building new roads in
forests.
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