The Montana Wilderness Association will lead 93 hikes on public lands during its 36th annual Wilderness Walks program from May through September. There’s a frog safari, a wildflower walk and even a hike led by a backcountry cooking expert – samples included. Group size is limited; advance reservations are required. For more information, call the […]
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Posted inMay 11, 1998: The working West: grassroots groups and their newsletters
Southwest Citizen Mining Activist Conference
Is your community fighting the 1872 Mining Law? Grassroots activists will get together at the Southwest Citizen Mining Activist Conference in Durango, Colo., May 29-31, to share war stories and talk about community organizing, national networking and technical mining issues. The conference is free to activists, and some travel scholarships are available. Call Aimee Boulanger […]
Posted inMay 11, 1998: The working West: grassroots groups and their newsletters
Uniting Communities Concerned About Nuclear Contamination
Being neighbor to a nuclear lab or waste dump isn’t easy; Fight Back! Uniting Communities Concerned About Nuclear Contamination aims to bring activists together with scientists and radiation health professionals in Roswell, N.M., June 5-7. For details, write Center for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping (CARD), 144 Harvard SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 (505/266-2663). This article appeared […]
Posted inMay 11, 1998: The working West: grassroots groups and their newsletters
A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center that Holds
The Island Institute, located in the town of Sitka on Alaska’s Baranof Island, will host its 15th annual symposium on human values and the written word, June 18-24 , this time devoted to A Culture to Sustain Us: Creating a Center that Holds. Speakers include Cecilia Martz, a bilingual Cup’ik Eskimo educator, and Ray Rasker, […]
Posted inMay 11, 1998: The working West: grassroots groups and their newsletters
A guide to the glue that keeps the West stuck together
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Caveat lector: The publications listed here are a basket of apples, oranges and walnuts. Some come out regularly, have many pages and are well done. Others appear sporadically and are only a single sheet. The key to the guide is: Publication name, group, address, […]
Posted inApril 27, 1998: The old West is going under
Dear Friends
Prairie paper wins a Pulitzer The 37,000-circulation Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota may have lost its building to flooding and fire in 1997, but this month the daily won a Pulitzer Prize for public service. The paper never missed a day of publication and circulated for free when its readers were forced to evacuate […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Mine your jewelry box
The Missoula, Mont., group Women’s Voices for the Earth has an alternative to a proposed gold mine on the Blackfoot River: Mine Your Jewelry Box, Not the Blackfoot. The group started collecting gold jewelry last May to support public education and lawsuits aimed at stopping the McDonald gold project (HCN, 12/22/97). So far, people have […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
California Water Map
It’s not quite Cadillac Desert, but the updated California Water Map goes a long way toward explaining the state’s complex network of water projects. The large color map, published by the Water Education Foundation, shows the location of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts and wild and scenic rivers around the state. The nonprofit educational foundation also publishes […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
The Western Ancient Forest Campaign
Join the directors of the Hells Canyon Preservation Council and the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance June 1 for a benefit float trip down the Snake River through Hells Canyon in wooden dories. Oars/Dories guides will pilot the five-day whitewater trip, prepare meals and donate all proceeds to the organizing groups. Contact the Hells Canyon Preservation Council […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Hells Canyon benefit float trip
Join the directors of the Hells Canyon Preservation Council and the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance June 1 for a benefit float trip down the Snake River through Hells Canyon in wooden dories. Oars/Dories guides will pilot the five-day whitewater trip, prepare meals and donate all proceeds to the organizing groups. Contact the Hells Canyon Preservation Council […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
National Audubon Society biennial convention
The National Audubon Society will hold its biennial convention July 6-11 in Estes Park, Colo. The conference theme is “Celebrating Successes” and sessions will address topics such as sanctuary management and wildland preservation. There will also be several birding field trips, including a seven-day “Grand Tour of Western Colorado.” For more information, write to the […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Getting it right: a policy agenda for local population activism
Getting it Right: A Policy Agenda for Local Population Activism is the topic of a provocative paper by Judith E. Jacobsen, a member of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development. She advocates adding issues of natural resource consumption and unwanted pregnancies to community development agendas. Copies of the 56-page paper are $5 from University of […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Scat Spot, scat
Man’s best friend is helping the Wolf Education and Research Center in Boise, Idaho. Hounds with a hankering for fetching are being retrained to sniff out bear, lynx, wolverine and even rhino scat, resulting in less need for tagging and radio-tracking (HCN, 2/16/98). A trained dog can survey a livestock depredation site for scat, which […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Grizzlies on staff
If the old adage, “Once you’ve studied something long enough, you become it,” holds true, the Glacier Institute has a grizzly bear, a glacier and a wildflower or two on staff. For 15 years, the nonprofit educational organization has recruited wildlife experts and artists to take students of all ages traipsing about Glacier National Park […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
All that glitters…
A citizens’ group in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., is trying to drum up opposition to a proposed open-pit gold mine a few miles from town. Royal Gold Inc. has been conducting exploratory drilling on Forest Service land, and a full-scale operation may begin once the price of gold increases. Resident Bill McNeill, who founded the new […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Partial measurements
Nothing is more elegant and simple than a Parshall Flume. The concrete or sheet metal devices, when properly built, measure how much water flows through a ditch. While water courts adjudicate, it is Parshall Flumes that actually measure out the water. Unfortunately, they’re unlikely to do an accurate job. According to Colorado State University, only […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Playing by the rules
When Steamboat Springs, Colo., snowmobiler Christian George was airlifted out of the backcountry in January after being lost for four days, he said he had survived with two cigarette lighters and a candy bar. Next time, he told the Denver Post, he’ll take more lighters. Jackson, Wyo., film producer Sava Malachowski adds a few more […]
Posted inApril 13, 1998: Oil clashes with elk in the Book Cliffs
Training and bombing range expansions at a glance
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to a news article,”Military wants to grow its Western empire.” Arizona Military wants increased training at Yuma Proving Ground; long-range renewal of the 2.6 million acre Barry Goldwater Range. California Proposed expansion of National Training Center at Fort Irwin, including military […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
Exploring Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: The Land Ethic and the American West in the 21st Century
Exploring Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: The Land Ethic and the American West in the 21st Century will be the topic of the third annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium April 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The keynote speaker is Pat Shea, director of the Bureau of Land Management, who will be joined by conservation biologist Curt […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
101st National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition
The 101st National Western Mining Conference & Exhibition will be held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo., April 15-18. Speakers include Ronald Cambre, president of Newmont Mining Corp., the largest gold producer in North America, and Rep. Dan Shaefer, R-Colo., who will host a panel discussion on deregulating the electric utility industry. Contact […]