In the summer of 1992, Ruth Shea, an Idaho Fish and Game Department employee, was riding in the Caribou National Forest when she looked down and saw steel-jawed traps buried in the trail. Then she came upon the trapped and decayed bodies of two coyotes and a badger. “These traps appeared to have been set […]
Carol Busch
Posted inMay 30, 1994: Can mining come clean?
Irrigation pumps kill salmon
More than half the screens protecting Columbia River salmon from being sucked into irrigation pumps in Washington and Oregon are missing or don’t work, according to a recent survey conducted by the two states. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife recently inspected 80 screens at irrigation and hydroelectric facilities, and discovered half were either […]
Posted inMay 16, 1994: Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
Lawsuit is launched against grazing in Montana
A legal attack against public-lands ranching is under way in Montana. The National Wildlife Federation and its Montana affiliate filed suit March 30 against the Forest Service, Beaverhead National Forest Supervisor Bert Kulesza and Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas in federal District Court in Butte, Mont. Tom France, National Wildlife Federation attorney in Missoula, […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
Guide to takings law
In 1986, David Lucas purchased two coastal lots in South Carolina for $1 million. Two years later the state legislature passed the South Carolina Beachfront Management Act, which prohibited Lucas from developing his property because his homes would have been too close to the ocean. Lucas sued the state of South Carolina and eventually took […]