Environmentalists have long depended on photos of endangered landscapes to spur us into protecting wild places. The photographers hope that if they show us the wonder of these places, we will fight like mad to save them. Tupper Ansel Blake and Madeleine Graham Blake, the photographers of Balancing Water: Restoring the Klamath Basin, want their […]
Bob Wilson
Posted inSeptember 19, 1994: Flame and blame in the Northwest
Plenty of room in Colorado
A report released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says Colorado can support at least 1,128 wolves. The agency studied seven national forests and their surrounding public and private lands, and determined that Colorado’s abundant elk and deer herds would not only sustain wolves but also discourage them from killing livestock. The report estimates […]
Posted inSeptember 19, 1994: Flame and blame in the Northwest
Save a river
Have you ever wanted to save a river from a dam or pollution but felt frustrated by not knowing how to begin? David M. Bolling effectively channels this passion in his book How to Save a River: A Handbook for Citizen Action. Full of case studies from successful fights to stop dams on rivers such […]
Posted inAugust 22, 1994: Whose fault? A Utah canyon turns deadly
Wildlife among the victims of drought
From New Mexico to the eastern slopes of the Cascades, the West is suffering from a sixth year of drought. Various combinations of thin snowpack, hot weather in spring and summer causing premature runoff, and scant summer rain are to blame. The drought is a contributing factor to wildfires which have burned over 2 million […]
Posted inJuly 25, 1994: 'Unranchers' reach for West's state lands
Fires illuminate the West’s ‘ecological darkness’
As smoke continues to rise from fires in the West, investigators search the ashes of Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colo., to determine why 14 firefighters died. Like the deadly Mann Gulch Fire of 1949, chronicled in Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, the crew was caught in a “blowup,” a nightmare situation where […]