Democrats seem united behind Richardson for Governor
Bryan Foster
Posted inSeptember 2, 2002: Backlash
The other firefighters
DURANGO, Colo. – “One neighbor’s house and one cabin were destroyed near here,” says Todd Swanson, surveying the blackened area behind his house outside this bustling college town. “But the thinning kept the fire back from my place until the slurry bombers were able to come and put it out.” In April, as a prologue […]
Posted inJuly 8, 2002: The anatomy of fire
No ranchettes for the rest of us in Jackson
Citizens of ritzy Wyoming town reject government-backed development
Posted inMarch 18, 2002: How I lost my town
Collaboration may prevent conflagration in Santa Fe
Coalition’s thinning-and-burning plan starts this spring
Posted inSeptember 14, 1998: We are shaped by the sound of wind, the slant of sunlight
Longtime foes practice ritual combat in an Idaho forest
Last fall, I traveled to a war in central Idaho. For six years, in the longest-standing Earth First! demonstration in the country, environmentalists have laid pipe, cement, trees and themselves in front of logging trucks at the Cove-Mallard timber sale, 80 miles southeast of Lewiston, Idaho, in the Nez Perce National Forest. And though this […]
Posted inMarch 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
Forcing the spring
Mainstream organizations such as the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation often define the environmental movement. In Forcing the Spring, writer Robert Gottlieb shows that alternative groups, such as Mothers of East Los Angeles, are equally important. These grass-roots groups rely on community members more than experts, concentrate on changing the social order rather than […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
Will plan save or destroy the grizzly?
A two-month battle between environmentalists and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials over the newly released Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan may end up in court. On Jan. 26, three environmental groups, the Fund for Animals, the Colorado-based Biodiversity Legal Foundation, and the Montana-based Swan View Coalition, gave 60-days’ notice to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
Some dams self-destruct
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Northwest is asked to give up 18 dams. The Oregon Natural Resource Council’s 18-dam “hit list” is already growing shorter. An Oregon irrigation district voted Jan. 5 to remove the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River. “This is not the decision […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
Draft plan foresees a freer-flowing Colorado River
If a draft plan for managing the massive Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona gains final approval, the Colorado River could run through the Grand Canyon much as it did before dam-builders arrived there in 1963. The Glen Canyon draft EIS, released by the Bureau of Reclamation Jan. 6, would protect the canyon from the […]