Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “Zion takes tourists out of their cars.” The Park Service philosophy of accommodating humans and their machines is changing. The first sign came on March 13, when officials announced that they were leaning toward banning snowmobiles in […]
Catherine Lutz And Robyn Morrison
Posted inMarch 27, 2000: The last wild river
The Wayward West
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit challenging a 1997 ban on oil and gas drilling on the Rocky Mountain Front, imposed by then Lewis and Clark Forest Supervisor Gloria Flora (HCN, 10/13/97: Forest Service acts to preserve ‘the Front’). The lawsuit claimed Flora was unduly influenced by public opinion and ignored her agency’s analysis […]