High Country News - Most Recent
The Jehovah's Witnesses publication "Awake!" worries about
wildlife.
Locals form a group, Stehekin Alert, to protect remote
Stehekin Valley, Wash., from development.
The anthology "Least Loved Beasts of the Really Wild West:
A Tribute" salutes coyotes, tarantulas, snakes and other
uncharismatic creatures.
The Montana-based Native Forest Network tours the West to
educate people about threatened roadless areas in the Northern
Rockies.
The Moab area BLM started charging recreationists user
fees several years ago, when mountain biking in Utah began to grow
out of control.
For the first time ever, it costs to hike in Idaho's
Sawtooth National Recreation Area, but many users are forgetting or
refusing to pay the $2 a day fee.
The third annual conference of the Glen Canyon Institute
is being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 8-9.
The National Recreation and Access Summit "97 will be held
in Boulder, Colo., Nov. 7-8.
Colorado Riparian Association's Oct. 14-16 conference will
be held in Montrose, Colo., "Managing Colorado Watersheds for
Riparian and Wetland Values."
Western Colorado Congress holds its 17th annual meeting in
Grand Junction, Colo., on Oct. 11.
Call to the Desert is a conference that will cover "hot"
topics at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, Oct. 10-13.
The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee is getting
together Oct. 7 and 8 in Jackson, Wyo., to discuss air
quality.
The Tucson Electric Power Company opens eight free
charge-up stations in Tucson for electric cars.
A revised edition of "Saving America's Countryside: A
Guide to Rural Conservation" shows how local action can stave off
urbanization.
Eleven California condors released earlier in northern
Arizona can be seen cruising the skies now over Grand Canyon and as
far away as Moab, Utah.
The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
celebrates 20 years of activism with an anniversary
conference.
The Government Accounting Office issues a report saying
the Forest Service costs taxpayers millions of dollars by its
inability to make timely decisions and its "indifference toward
accountability."
Vandals destroy computer disks containing Indian language
archives in Oregon's Warm Springs Indian Reservation, but with help
from many volunteers much of the irreplaceable material is
retrieved.
Forest Service officials admit that 10,000 acres of
supposedly "dead" trees offered for salvage logging on Idaho's
Payette National Forest weren't dead after all.
The Oregon Supreme Court upholds the state's right to
enforce strict rules against the non-agricultural development of
high-value farmland.
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