It’s going to take more than a few isolated individuals to put the squeeze on suburban sprawl, according to Colorado Commons, a nonprofit think tank based in Longmont. With that in mind, the group brings together policymakers, environmentalists, developers and academics to address the state’s urban growth problems. They recently sent the first issue of […]
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Threatened Rivers
The West continues to hold its own in the competition for the nation’s most at-risk rivers. Five of this year’s top 10 endangered rivers are in the West, according to American Rivers’ annual report, North America’s Most Endangered and Threatened Rivers of 1997. This year’s 45-page report focuses on threats more subtle than the untreated […]
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Solstice Institute
The summer solstice is a time to join in harmony with natural forces – and boogie. The nonprofit Solstice Institute holds a first-day-of summer celebration June 21 in Boulder, Colo., featuring singing, drumming and some dancing in the street. Ben Lippman, who founded the institute in 1995 to promote cooperative housing, hopes the get-together will […]
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Summer Wilderness Conference
From Missoula, Mont., comes a double celebration as Wilderness Watch’s Summer Wilderness Conference and the annual gathering of the Association of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) converge on the town July 17-20. Poet Gary Snyder will read to a crowd of conference-goers from both camps. Wilderness Watch hosts environmentalist Stewart Udall, who will highlight discussion […]
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Rising From Tradition
The work of nine Native American artists from Idaho, Oregon and Washington will be on display at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Ore., for the next nine months. The show, called Rising From Tradition: Contemporary Native Art from the Plateau, features traditional work such as coiled baskets and woven cornhusk belts and pouches, but […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
A negligent bureau?
What is the Bureau of Land Management doing in the woods? Not much good, says Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national organization of resource management employees. The watchdog group’s latest project, a Comprehensive Study of the Public Domain Forestry Program of the Bureau of Land Management, details what it calls rampant negligence within the […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
The Colorado Trail Foundation
You can learn more about Colorado’s alpine environment by experiencing it this summer. The Colorado Trail Foundation offers three classes: “Alpine Wildflowers,” July 20-26, taught by botanist John Sowell; “Watercolor and Ornithology,” July 27-Aug. 2, taught by painter Marge Barge, and “Geology of the San Juans,” Aug. 3-9, taught by geologist Jack Campbell. Classes take […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
Youth Conservation Workshop
Today’s students are tomorrow’s land stewards, and for those interested in land management and conservation, the Colorado branch of the Society for Range Management is taking applications for four scholarships to its annual Youth Conservation Workshop, July 6-12. This national organization of ranchers, farmers, academics and employees of federal and state agencies sponsors the summer […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
Forest Guardians
Should commercial logging on public lands become a thing of the past? Some environmentalists think so, and their “zero cut” campaign is making waves around the West. This is just one of the topics of the Forest Guardians’ first annual conference, to be held at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, N.M., June 20-22. The conference will […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
Western governors’ annual meeting
Teddy Roosevelt would be proud. That’s the mood Western governors want at their annual meeting this June in Medora, in North Dakota’s Badlands, where Roosevelt hunted, ranched and fell in love with the West. Representing 18 Western states, the governors will meet June 22-24 to discuss the theme, Common Interests: Commanding Our Own Destiny. The […]
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Free-range ferrets
Black-footed ferrets could inhabit northwestern Colorado’s Moffat County and Utah’s Uintah County as soon as this fall, if a federal proposal wins approval. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose each county because it had public lands populated by plenty of prairie dogs, the preferred prey of ferrets. Ferrets would be released into the Little […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
Yellowstone at 125
Yellowstone National Park turns 125 this year, and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition wants to re-examine not only the park’s mission but the national park ideal worldwide. The GYC holds its 14th annual meeting at Montana State University in Bozeman, May 29-June 1, under the theme: The National Park Idea: Where have we been? Where are […]
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Eco-ranching – really?
Is ecologically sensitive ranching possible? The Sierra Club’s Santa Fe, N.M., chapter and the Quivira Coalition think it is, and on June 14 they will host a free workshop to show that a ranch can be both a successful livestock business and a landscape of healthy native grasses, riparian zones, streams and wildlife. “The goal,” […]
Posted inMay 26, 1997: The sacred and profane collide in the West
Let’s talk
Bitter disputes over public-land use and property rights in the West may increasingly be resolved through dialogue and cooperation, according to panelists at a conference on environmental conflict resolution held recently in Tucson, Ariz. There were 70 speakers and 260 participants at the conference, sponsored by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at […]
Posted inMay 12, 1997: Planning under the gun: Cleaning up Lake Tahoe proves to be a dirty business
Following the salmon
The Northwest salmon crisis has spawned a $150-a-year journal devoted, says its editor, to “the most significant environmental restoration effort ever undertaken in the United States.” Bill Crampton, a fourth-generation Oregonian and former newspaper editor, started the Northwest Salmon Recovery Report in February to provide an independent voice on regional salmon issues. Crampton, who publishes […]
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It’s back
For the fourth time, the U.S. Air Force has released its draft environmental impact statement for a new electronic combat and bombing range in the Owyhee Canyonlands of southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and northern Nevada. The Air Force currently makes 7,500 sonic and subsonic annual flights over the Owyhee Canyonlands. The Air Force says the […]
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Getting off the road to ruin
Can you imagine a world without traffic jams, potholes or auto accidents? Activists can at the Arcata, Calif.-based Alliance for a Paving Moratorium. Since 1990, the group has been urging people to get out of their air-polluting vehicles and find their feet again. The alliance’s 40-page, newsprint quarterly, Auto-Free Times, keeps the public up to […]
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Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse
How can you tell if public land is healthy? The Arizona Grazing Clearinghouse, which includes the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, Prescott National Forest Friends, the Society for Conservation Biologists, and others concerned about grazing practices, will host a workshop exploring this question at Northern Arizona State University in Flagstaff, Ariz., June 14-15. Supervisors of […]
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Wild Idaho!
Help celebrate 25 years of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area at the annual Wild Idaho! conference May 16-18, at Redfish Lake Lodge near Stanley. The weekend features lively auctions, field trips, music and a slide show on the Boulder-White Clouds mountains; speakers include Rep. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Bill LeVere, the feisty supervisor of the Sawtooth […]
Posted inMay 12, 1997: Planning under the gun: Cleaning up Lake Tahoe proves to be a dirty business
Intimidation is on the rise
-Our goal is to destroy, to eradicate the environmental movement,” said Ron Arnold, of Seattle, Wash., one of the leaders of the wise-use movement, in 1991. “We’re mad as hell.” It’s one thing to talk about anger and destruction; another to act out those feelings. Since 1989, there have been over 100 incidents of harassment […]