Federal legislation to launch the Quincy Library Group’s forest management plan soared through the House, 429-1, a landslide victory which supporters are boasting was bigger and faster than the vote following Pearl Harbor. The lone holdout was Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. Opposition to the controversial bill faded in last-minute negotiations between Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, […]
Jane Braxton Little
Posted inJune 23, 1997: On the trail of mining's corporate nomads
What to do about a nasty fish
When California fisheries biologists discovered northern pike in Lake Davis, 70 miles north of Lake Tahoe, they had a fix: 26,000 gallons of poison. Killing all the fish in the Plumas County lake would prevent the voracious, non-native pike from migrating down the Feather River to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where they could destroy the […]
Posted inMarch 31, 1997: Big Sky, big mess in Montana
National groups object to grassroots power in D.C.
The Quincy Library Group has been toasted from the Sierra Nevada to Pennsylvania Avenue, its grassroots plan to manage 2.5 million acres of national forest land hailed as a win-win for the ecosystem and for the local economy. But when Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif., introduced legislation Feb. 27, to make the plan federal law, 19 […]
Posted inOctober 14, 1996: Greens prune their message to win the West's voters
California: A 28-year-old talks the talk to green voters
Compared to the passionate fight to save redwoods from logging in the privately owned Headwaters grove, the campaign for California’s 1st Congressional District is a skirmish. But it has attracted national environmental groups aiming to strengthen protections for wildlife, water and woods. Their target is Republican Frank Riggs. The district ranges from the well-heeled wineries […]
Posted inJune 10, 1996: Outdoor Education
Operation bullsling
The Forest Service really slung the bull this time – eight tons of it. To improve the vegetation and watershed of the Ishi Wilderness in northeastern California, agency officials strapped 13 tranquilized bulls into helicopter cargo nets and flew them out at the end of a 40-foot cable. The cattle were the last of a […]
Posted inMay 13, 1996: Howdy, neighbor!
Consensus even came to Washington, D.C.
Jim Jontz, feisty director of the Western Ancient Forest Campaign, showed up at the seventh American Forest Congress in Washington, D.C., planning to stomp out in protest. Scores of other environmental activists, all passionately opposed to the “logging without laws’ timber salvage rider, planned to join Jontz’s demonstration at a conference its organizers called the […]
Posted inMarch 4, 1996: Who owns these bones?
Nevada county to Army: Take this smog and shove it
An explosion rips the afternoon calm and from a barren hillside flames shoot 50 feet into the air. A shimmering cloud lofts to 10,000 feet and drifts east over the western edge of the Great Basin. Minutes later the blast repeats – 13 times. This is an everyday event at the Sierra Army Depot in […]
Posted inMarch 22, 1993: The dam that won't die
Agency says: Let our logo go
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Agency says: Let our logo go.