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Conservation biologist Michael Soulé and activist Dave Foreman are featured speakers when the Wildlands Project holds its Wildlands Grassroots Rendezvous: Science and the Conservation of Nature, Oct. 8-11, in Estes Park, Colo. Contact The Wildlands Project, 1955 W. Grant Road, Suite 148, Tucson, AZ 85745 (520/884-0875) or e-mail: wildland@earthlink.net. This article appeared in the print […]

Corporate hog farms have targeted Colorado, and an Oct. 20 conference, “Large-Scale Hog Farming in Colorado: Sooey or Sue Me?” will discuss regulatory options. Contact the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado School of Law at 303/492-1272 or Campus Box 401, Boulder, CO 80309-0401. This article appeared in the print edition of […]

All kinds of trail managers – volunteers and professionals who maintain trails for everyone from hikers to ATV riders – will come together at the Colorado Trails Symposium, Oct. 8-11 in Grand Junction, Colo. For information contact: 1998 Colorado Trails Symposium, c/o Colorado State Parks, 1313 Sherman St., Rm. 618, Denver, CO 80203 (303/866-3203 ext. […]

How can the Environmental Protection Agency be more effective? Congress wants to know, so it commissioned an investigation: Learning from Innovations in Environmental Protection: A Call for Ideas and Potential Researchers. This two-year, $2 million project is asking individuals, businesses, nonprofits and government agencies for their most innovative environmental management techniques. Researchers are also needed […]

The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute will celebrate what would be its conservationist namesake’s100th birthday with Wilderness Horizons: An Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference, Sept. 24-26, 1999, in Ashland, Wis. The Institute is calling now for papers and presentations ranging from the philosophical foundations of wilderness and original wilderness prose, to new ways of managing wilderness. Contact Clayton […]

The Oregon Natural Desert Association holds its annual meeting Sept. 26-27 at the Hancock Field Station near Fossil, Ore. Activities include a slide show by photographer Larry Olson, fossil excavation, a canoe trip and early-morning birding. Contact Gilly at 503/525-0193 or write ONDA, 16 NW Kansas Ave., Bend, OR 97701. This article appeared in the […]

The Great Old Broads are taking on the Good Ol” Boys in Utah. Organized in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, the Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a group of over 70 women dedicated to preserving wild places. Their ninth Wilderness Conference will be held Oct. 10-11 in Grand Staircase-Escalante National […]

The George Wright Society, a nonprofit association of historians, biologists and public and private managers, is calling for papers for its 10th Research and Resource Management of Parks and Public Lands conference next spring. Abstracts are welcome before Oct. 15 on any topic related to research, resource management and education in protected areas such as […]

Ian L. McHarg, author of Design with Nature, will address the first annual Conference on Environmental Protection and Growth Management in the West, to be held Oct. 23 and 24 at the University of Denver. The conference will bring together environmental groups, activists, lawyers planners, and land-use professionals to talk about what is and is […]

The Northwest chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration focuses on broad-based salmon recovery efforts at its Tacoma, Wash., conference Oct. 28-30. Called “Ecosystem Restoration: Turning the Tide,” the gathering includes University of Colorado natural-resources law professor and writer Charles Wilkinson and Ted Strong, executive director of the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission. Contact the […]

Colorado Preservation Inc. has recently published its Most Endangered Places List. Perched in the number one position are Colorado’s gaming towns of Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek – all threatened by Las Vegas-style casinos. For a copy of the list or more information, contact Colorado Preservation, Inc., 910 16th St., Suite 1100, Denver, […]

Isolated small towns can’t always be quiet about preserving their peace and quiet. In rural Boulder County, Colo., a group called PUMA, which stands for the Preserve Unique Magnolia Association, protects the rural qualities of the Magnolia area by publicizing its community efforts on the World Wide Web. From potlucks to concerns about forest management, […]

Community stewardship – the idea that inclusive, local processes can protect ecological integrity while improving economic conditions – has a new home on the Web: www.sonoran.org. The Sonoran Institute has launched this Web site to allow diverse communities from across the United States, including Red Lodge, Mont., and the border region of the Sonoran desert, […]

The National Park Service is doing something different at New Mexico’s El Malpais National Monument. This fall, at the 10th anniversary resource stewardship symposium, the agency will plan the future course of scientific research in the monument. “We’re bringing together the people who actually do the research, and asking what they feel is important and […]

-Environmental concerns cannot stand apart from social arrangements of power and opportunity,” says the Center of the American West, introducing Justice for All: Racial Equity and Environmental Well-Being, a conference Sept. 11-12. Speakers will try to link environmentalists of color, who have done much in urban areas, to the larger conservation movement. Contact the center […]

Educators in Colorado are invited to discover what’s new in environmental curricula, where to find speakers and ideas for classroom presentations, and how to share information to help build a statewide environmental education master plan. Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education hosts the Colorado Environmental Education Conference & Expo Sept. 26 at Red Rocks Community College […]

Desert rats in eastern Oregon will cavort near fossil beds, on the river and under the stars at the Oregon Natural Desert Association’s annual membership meeting, Sept. 25-27. Contact Gillian Lyons at 503/525-0193 or glyons@onda.org. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Oregon Natural Desert Association.

Case study workshops at Peaks to Prairies: A Conference on Watershed Stewardship, Sept. 27-30 in Rapid City, S.D., will test ideas about community and the environment to see if they hold water. Speakers include history professor Patricia Nelson Limerick; contact Thorne Ecological Institute, 5398 Manhattan Circle, Suite 120, Boulder, CO 80303-4239 (303/499-3647) or e-mail dir@thorneecoinst.org. […]