Content removed at freelancer’s request. Article and three sidebar articles are available in print edition, found in bound volumes at HCN’s Paonia headquarters and in several university libraries. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Cove-Mallard: ‘I’m just trying to right what I feel is wrong’.
Anders Halverson
Posted inSeptember 2, 1996: Last line of defense: Civil disobedience and protest slow down 'lawless logging'
The pole-sitter
Content removed at freelancer’s request. Note: This article is a sidebar to a feature story. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The pole-sitter.
Posted inSeptember 2, 1996: Last line of defense: Civil disobedience and protest slow down 'lawless logging'
The innkeeper
Content removed at freelancer’s request. Note: This article is a sidebar to a feature story. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The innkeeper.
Posted inSeptember 2, 1996: Last line of defense: Civil disobedience and protest slow down 'lawless logging'
The activist
Content removed at freelancer’s request. Note: This article is a sidebar to a feature story. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The activist.
Posted inMarch 4, 1996: Who owns these bones?
Nuclear waste deal challenged
Idaho’s Republican Governor Phil Batt abused his executive power when he signed a nuclear waste deal with the federal government last October, according to Democratic state Sen. Clint Stennett of Ketchum. In January, Stennett introduced legislation to nullify the deal that will allow over 1,000 shipments of nuclear waste into the state over the next […]
Posted inMay 15, 1995: Dog and pony show about salmon and owls
A full-court press to save ecosystems
Note: this article is one of several in this issue about the Endangered Species Act. Boulder, Colo. – Jasper Carlton, head of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation, sits at a table in his suburban townhome, intently sketching a map of the Selkirk ecosystem in northern Idaho. “I spent time in those mountains for weeks on end […]
Posted inApril 3, 1995: The Great Basin: America's wasteland seeks a new identity
Unranchers get competitive
Unranchers get competitive When Forest Guardians leased four parcels of New Mexico state land in February, it became the first environmental group to win permits always granted to ranchers. The permits, encompassing 2,078 acres north of Santa Fe, were non-controversial because they have not been leased by ranchers for seven years, says Forest Guardian Director […]
Posted inMarch 20, 1995: The fight for Reclamation
Not the whole story
Anti-environmental anger in northeastern Oregon captured headlines last year when Joseph residents hung in effigy activists Ric Bailey and Andy Kerr (HCN, 11/14/94). But according to a recent survey, 58 percent of the residents in the Hells Canyon region believe “the region’s natural environment should be protected even if this means that some people will […]
Posted inMarch 20, 1995: The fight for Reclamation
Agency kills wolf by mistake
While the federal government was spending millions of dollars restoring wolves to central Idaho, one of its agencies was killing a wolf nearby. The federal Animal Damage Control program accidentally killed one of the endangered wolves in a coyote trap near Priest River, Idaho, in early February. The trap was an M-44, a baited, spring-loaded […]
Posted inMarch 20, 1995: The fight for Reclamation
Our hot legacy
OUR HOT LEGACY “Where and how will we treat and dispose of the backlog of wastes from nuclear weapons production? How clean is clean? Should we exhume large volumes of contaminated soil in order to allow for unlimited use of the land in the future? To foster a sustained and informed public debate on these […]
Posted inMarch 20, 1995: The fight for Reclamation
Soft energy may shred Wyoming raptors
CARBON COUNTY, Wyo.- Bruce Morley stands on Foote Creek Rim, the high ridge he hopes to cover with a forest of wind turbines, and eyes the brown haze from a power plant 150 miles away. “Every month this project would generate as much power as a coal train a mile long,” says Morley, raising his […]
Posted inMarch 6, 1995: The fires next time
James Watt charged with felonies
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former Interior Department Secretary James Watt for lying to Congress and obstructing an investigation of fraud and influence peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Federal prosecutor Arlin Adams says that after Watt left the Reagan cabinet in 1983, he earned $500,000 for interceding […]
Posted inMarch 6, 1995: The fires next time
Hunter-harassment law stands
The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Montana’s “hunter harassment” law which prohibits intentional interference with lawful hunting. A Gallatin County, Mont., court convicted animal rights activist John Lilburn of a misdemeanor under the law in 1990 for stepping in front of a buffalo hunter’s rifle and shouting, “Don’t shoot!” The conviction was […]
Posted inMarch 6, 1995: The fires next time
‘Indifference’ caused deaths
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, How the West’s asbestos fires were turned into tinderboxes. “I didn’t like going down in there. I talked to Mackey about it. Not burning too active. I was going by his judgment; his best judgment was to go direct. I thought that was the […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
Holy water
Most people know that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Less known is that it may guarantee freedom to irrigate. Bill Nelson, a part-time farmer in drought-stricken northeast Oregon, says his new Church of the Holy Water has one central tenet: Its 25 members must have unlimited water use. He hopes […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
Grazing fees drop
Only a few months ago, ranchers who graze their animals on federal lands were bracing themselves for significant fee increases proposed by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. But intense pressure from the livestock industry forced Babbitt to jettison the attempt (HCN, 1/23/95). Now, under the federal formula, fees will decline this year by 19 percent, from […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
Called on the carpet
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt was called before the House Resources Committee Jan. 26 to defend the government’s $6.7 million wolf restoration program. Republicans, who now dominate the committee, charged that state and individual rights have been subordinated to the federally protected wolves. “I strongly believe, Mr. Secretary, that not only have your wolves […]
Posted inFebruary 6, 1995: The wolves are back, big time
It takes a thief
An eel-like parasite that devastated the lake trout population of the Great Lakes may one day swim in Yellowstone Lake. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it may consider introducing sterile sea lampreys to control invasive lake trout discovered there last summer (HCN, 9/19/94). “At at this point we’re not ruling out any proposals,” […]
Posted inFebruary 6, 1995: The wolves are back, big time
Wolves gain support
The wolf is welcome in Colorado, say 70 percent of the respondents in a recent statewide survey. The study polled 1,452 residents and found that a majority on both sides of the Rockies support the reintroduction of the gray wolf. The results on the Western Slope surprised researchers, who had expected the region’s livestock industry […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 1995: What a long strange trip it's been
So far, wolf reintroduction survives legal challenge
Wolves arrived in central Idaho and Yellowstone last week after evading enemies in courtrooms and legislatures around the region. The frenzy of last-minute legal maneuvering preceding their return has fragmented opinion on both sides of the issue and bewildered onlookers. Five months ago, to block the wolves’ return, the American Farm Bureau and the Mountain […]