Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Beauty eludes the beast. METHOW VALLEY, Wash. – While developers and government officials spent two decades and millions of dollars trying to turn this valley into a destination downhill ski resort, residents quietly built and maintained a world-class cross-country skiing area. Now the proposals for […]
Ken Olsen
Posted inMarch 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
Washington county splits in half over proposed dump
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Pay as you waste, says EPA. HOOPER, Wash. – Burying Seattle’s garbage in rural eastern Washington is like putting a toilet in a refrigerator, according to cartoonist Milt Priggee of the Spokane, Wash., Spokesman Review. That sums up the feeling of opponents of a […]
Posted inMarch 21, 1994: On the borderline
Earth First!ers experience Idaho-style justice
MOSCOW, Idaho – State and federal judges have been hammering members of Earth First! who are fighting the Cove-Mallard timber sales in central Idaho. In early February, Earth First!er Erik Ryberg was sentenced to six months in jail, with four months suspended, for interfering with a U.S. Forest Service officer. Ryberg also must pay a […]
Posted inDecember 27, 1993: Yellowstone
Newspaper series unsettles the Northwest
The Spokesman-Review publishes a series about Forest Service mismanagement in five national forests in the Northwest. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Newspaper series unsettles the Northwest.
Posted inOctober 18, 1993: A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?
Battle for wilderness takes a break
Earth First! and other environmental groups claim victory after preventing logging and slowing Forest Service road building efforts in the Cove-Mallard timber sale area. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Battle for wilderness takes a break.
Posted inJune 28, 1993: Now showing in the Grand Canyon: L.A. smog
Author of Eco-Warriors is jailed
The incarcerated author Rik Scarce says the First Amendment protects scholarly research, including his on the radical environmental movement. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Author of Eco-Warriors is jailed.