Armed with new research, traffic engineers are finding ways to stop highway carnage
Peter Aleshire
Posted inDecember 21, 1998: Grand Canyon Gridlock
Wolf killers sought in Southwest
ALPINE, Ariz. – Four Mexican gray wolves splashed with fluorescent paint and wearing brightly colored radio collars scurried into the wild here in mid-December. Their controversial release is the latest act in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s bullet-riddled effort to bring the wolf back to the Southwest. Earlier this year, biologists had released 11 […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
Note: see end of this feature story for a list of four accompanying sidebar articles. PHOENIX, Ariz. – It sounds like the set-up for a joke: A doctor, a philosopher and a biologist go into the woods, and … But nine years later, the coming together of these three environmental activists has staggered the timber […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
In pursuit of crooked feds
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Robin Silver: “The key to our success? Corrupt government officials and a Justice Department that condones corruption. Even conservative judges are consistently recognizing that the federal land managers are criminals. We’re dealing with dishonest federal officials. Period. “We also prepare compulsively. We’ve got a […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
Modern ‘civilization’ is a doomsday machine
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Kieran Suckling: “Our critics talk about “consensus.” But a consensus of who? When we had a timber injunction shutting down all logging in the Southwest, a poll by a professional polling company found that every sector of the public supported a complete ban on […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
He found spotted owls; the agency ignored them
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Peter Galvin: “I had cancer when I was 15, and it very much changed my life. I had been captain of my junior varsity basketball team, but after that, things just changed. I didn’t want to go out and get drunk on Friday night. […]
Posted inApril 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
Can Southwest activism and money coexist?
They lobbied. They staged sit-ins. They crashed town hall meetings. They chained themselves to trees. They scrounged for pennies and sued every despoiler of public lands they could find. The guerrilla tactics of the Southwest’s disparate environmental activists have worked. They have contributed to an enormous decrease in logging in the region’s 11 national forests: […]
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
Northern Arizona U. looks back, moves forward
Presettlement forests provide map for management
Posted inApril 19, 1993: Clinton flinches under western pressure
Why Arizonans voted for leg-hold traps
A leg-hold trap ban dies in Arizona’s rancher-friendly legislature. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Why Arizonans voted for leg-hold traps.