Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Fighting fires, and indignities. Writers and photographers have been catching up with public interest to document firefighting. Michael Thoele’s Fire Line: The Summer Battles of the West collects dramatic photographs from across the front lines of wildland firefighting, focusing the summer drama of smokejumpers, […]
Shea Andersen
Posted inAugust 7, 1995: Fighting fires, and indignities
Feds want to kill some Yellowstone bison
Where tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park see a wildlife haven for free-roaming buffalo, a cadre of federal and state scientists see a reservoir of disease that threatens to spill into the outside world. “Yellowstone National Park is a cloud hanging over us,” says Dick Rath, a veterinarian from Bozeman, Mont. Rath and his colleagues, including […]
Posted inJuly 24, 1995: Making a mountain into a starbase
Idaho woods again inspire “acts of conscience’
Summer’s here and it’s protesting time in the woods: Cove/Mallard Coalition’s third summer of logging resistance has begun in central Idaho. Protests and civil disobedience will once again be the tools of the campaign as loggers start building the third of nine access roads into the mostly roadless area. Holding a banner that read “The […]
Posted inJuly 24, 1995: Making a mountain into a starbase
She fights for ferrets
A veterinary technician fired for protesting an ill-fated plan for releasing black-footed ferrets into Badlands National Park in South Dakota now wants to start her own care facility for geriatric or neglected ferrets. Carolyn Kinsey was hired to manage a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “conditioning” facility in Pueblo, Colo., for ferrets soon to be […]
Posted inJune 26, 1995: Colorado's prison slayer
Summitville mine boss indicted
The former environmental manager of Colorado’s bankrupt Summitville mine, one of the worst and most expensive environmental disasters in Colorado history, was indicted June l6 on 35 charges of conspiracy, felony violations of the Clean Water Act, and two counts of falsifying records. EPA investigators charge that in l990 mid-level manager Tom Chisholm knowingly discharged […]
Posted inJune 26, 1995: Colorado's prison slayer
L-P’s problems mount
Officials at Lousiana-Pacific expected the worst and they got it. On July 16 the company and two former managers of its Olathe, Colo., waferboard plant were indicted on 56 counts including conspiracy, fraud and violation of environmental laws. Federal prosecutors and EPA criminal investigators charge that plant managers tampered with an emissions monitor in Olathe, […]
Posted inJune 12, 1995: The Southwest's last real river: Will it flow on?
Eight is enough
Eight is enough After losing their father to an illegal shooting outside of Red Lodge, Mont., eight wolf pups and their mother are in a holding pen in Yellowstone National Park. After some agonizing over the decision, federal biologists decided to move the single-parent family to the one-acre enclosure. For now, the mother receives fresh […]