Agencies let Rio Grande and Pecos rivers dry up despite minimum-flow agreements
Laura Paskus
Posted inJune 24, 2002: The buzz business
Temporary protection yanked in the Siskiyou
OREGON The Siskiyou National Forest, home to five Wild and Scenic rivers, a healthy salmon and steelhead population, and rare salamanders and wolverines, just lost protection from the drill. In January 2001, then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt placed a temporary moratorium on new mining leases for more than 1.2 million acres of the forest. The Bureau […]
Posted inJune 24, 2002: The buzz business
Columbia dredging closer
OREGON Plans to dredge the Columbia River are one step closer to fruition, thanks to the National Marine Fisheries Service, which has changed its biological opinion for the third time since 1999. In late May, NMFS, in charge of endangered salmon recovery, found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to dredge 106.5 miles […]
Posted inJune 10, 2002: Hatching reform
Duwamish? Duwamish who?
WASHINGTON The Duwamish, a Northwest tribe, doesn’t exist, according to Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Since 1978, the tribe has been seeking federal recognition that would grant them control over their government and lands, make them eligible for federal funds for education, health care and social programs, and allow casino operations. The 560 members of the […]
Posted inMay 27, 2002: Wolf at the door
New museum takes visitors beyond Yellowstone
Dr. Charles Preston wishes he had better understood the Yellowstone region during his first visit there as a teen-ager. Now, as curator of the new Draper Museum in Cody, Wyo., his job is to bolster the knowledge of a new generation of Yellowstone visitors. The Draper, part of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, links geological, […]
Posted inMay 27, 2002: Wolf at the door
Raptors won’t fry away
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has monitored the electrocution of hawks and eagles, whose large wing spans can easily bridge the gap between live wires on power lines (HCN, 12/7/98: Power poles make deadly perches). Though the agency has the authority to prosecute electric companies under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act […]
Posted inMay 2, 2005: The Great Energy Divide
The Winds of Change
With the White House seeking to more than double the number of power plants, the best hope for a clean energy future lies in local communities