CALIFORNIA After more than four decades, Army officials have halted the open-pit burning and blasting of obsolete munitions and rocket motors at Sierra Army Depot near Herlong. The depot’s open-air weapons destruction was challenged in federal court early last year by a coalition of Indian tribes, environmental groups and private citizens (HCN, 8/13/01: Depot neighbors […]
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Posted inApril 29, 2002: The Great Salt Lake Mystery
Sagebrush artistry
Nevada potter Dennis Parks celebrates his exit from the rat race in a new memoir, Living in the Country Growing Weird. With his wife and two sons in tow, Parks left a tenure-track professorship in Southern California 30 years ago, settled in Tuscarora, Nev., a ghost town, and founded a pottery school that today attracts […]
Posted inAugust 13, 2001: No refuge in the Klamath Basin
Depot neighbors are on a short fuse
Pressure mounts against the Sierra Army Depot’s open-air munitions burning
Posted inJune 18, 2001: Transforming powers
‘Alternative to Madness’
Anti-nuclear activists have a new way to spread the word about the dangers of weapons testing and radioactive waste – documentary film. In 1998, with borrowed equipment, no budget and little experience, John Brooner of Susanville, Calif., and Sandi Rizzo of Reno, Nev., began filming Shundahai Network’s annual spring gathering at the Nevada Test Site. […]