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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 […]

Gov. Jim Geringer will join sportsmen, biologists and ranchers to ask: Are Feedgrounds Forever? at the Wyoming Wildlife Federation annual meeting, May 15-17 in Dubois, Wyo. Problems with and alternatives to winter feedgrounds for elk, bighorn sheep and bison will be debated. Contact WWF coordinator Tory Taylor for details at 307/455-2161 or by e-mail: metaylor@wyoming.com. […]

Three Western states need volunteers to help as naturalists, field biologists and wilderness rangers. Public-land agencies in Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska invite high school groups and college students to get hands-on field experience during the 1998 summer season. For a free copy of the North Zone Volunteer and Internship Opportunities Guide, compiled in user-friendly […]

The 20th annual High Desert Conference, “On the Cusp of Change: Charting a New Century in the High Desert,” is slated for April 30-May 3 at the Malheur Field Station near Burns, Ore. The Oregon Natural Desert Association, Committee for Idaho’s High Desert, and Friends of Nevada Wilderness will host the weekend of field trips, […]

The Forest Service will hold 25 open houses about its proposed 18-month moratorium on building new roads in the nation’s forests. Meetings will be held in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming, beginning March 17. For information about where and when, call Alan Polk at 202/205-1134 or check the Web at […]

In Colorado, all media, from newspapers to radio stations, that have covered the issue of sustainability are eligible to apply for a media award from the University of Colorado’s Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy. Winners get the chance to pick the recipient of a $1,500 graduate student scholarship. Grants of $1,500 are […]

College students are invited to apply to the 1998 Southwest Earth Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. The eight-week summer program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is “a research program into the nature of research itself,” using the problem of acid mine drainage in the nearby San Juan Mountains to investigate […]

Since 1993, the Forest Stewardship Council has been promoting earth-friendly forest products. The Council’s logo is a “green” label for furniture, guitars, hardwood floors and other products that have been produced with care for communities and the environment. From March 11-13, the Forest Stewardship Council will make its debut in the Rockies, touring Boise, Salt […]

Land Air Water (LAW), the University of Oregon law student group, invites people to climb trees with the Ruckus Camp, learn about land trusts and listen to environmental leaders such as David Brower and Winona LaDuke. All this is happening in Eugene, Ore., March 5-8 at the 16th annual Public Interest Law Conference: Activists and […]

Club 20, a regional chamber of commerce for Colorado’s Western Slope, will hold its 46th annual meeting March 6-7 in Grand Junction. Guest speakers and panelists include Rep. Scott McInnis, R, Louisiana-Pacific CEO Mark Suwyn, HCN publisher Ed Marston, and Rick O’Donnell, executive director of the Center for the New West. Panel discussions will address […]

The Mesa County Water Association will hold its fifth annual water course Feb. 17 and 25 and March 3 in Grand Junction, Colo. Call 970/242-7490 for information. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Mesa County Water Association.

If you have a birdfeeder, binoculars and access to a computer, you can join the BirdSource Great “98 Backyard Bird Count, Feb 20-22. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society and Cornell University, the project will use the Internet to collect sightings from birdwatchers across the continent, documenting some unusual migration patterns observed this winter. Anyone […]

Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt and John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, will be among the guest speakers at the 7th Annual Land Use Continuing Education Conference in Denver, March 12-13. Topics will include preserving open space, private property rights, small town economic development and urban growth boundaries. Contact the Rocky Mountain Land Use […]