Federal agents suspect that a slew of eagle-poaching incidents in southeast Idaho is linked to the lucrative illegal wildlife trade. Fifteen dead golden eagles have been found in the last two weeks in wetlands on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Since December 1992, 41 dead golden eagles have been found in southeast Idaho. All the […]
Steve Stuebner
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
River purity is a new goal for all sorts offarmers
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry. On a clear evening in the Magic Valley of southern Idaho, Don Campbell heads down a hill to check on his catfish. They’re enclosed in a group of raceways below his house overlooking the Snake […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
Environmentalists and feds try to save Idaho’s rivers
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry. You can’t have a healthy river without water. But it used to be state policy to choke off the Middle Snake at Milner Dam and divert all of its flow into irrigation canals. Some life […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
Salmon campaign fractures over how to include people
SALMON, Idaho – Environmentalists ignited a firestorm in central Idaho by requesting a blanket injunction on all logging, mining and grazing on six national forests to protect endangered salmon habitat. U.S. District Judge Daniel Ezra of Honolulu, filling in for a sick Idaho judge, granted the injunction on Jan. 12, lighting the fuse. Within a […]
Posted inFebruary 20, 1995: No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry
ARCO, Idaho – They stand like giant tombstones in a graveyard. Hundreds of black cottonwood trees – all dead or just barely hanging on – line the dry cobblestones of the Big Lost River. Charlie Traughber cusses state water authorities as he points out decaying groves of cottonwoods across the Big Lost River Valley. “Gawd, […]
Posted inFebruary 6, 1995: The wolves are back, big time
New governor accepts nuclear waste
BOISE, Idaho – New Idaho Gov. Philip E. Batt broke with tradition Jan. 12 and agreed to accept a total of 11 railroad-borne casks of nuclear waste from the U.S. Navy during the next six weeks. In return, the Navy has promised to find a geologic repository outside Idaho “as quickly as practical” and transfer […]
Posted inJanuary 23, 1995: What a long strange trip it's been
Bidding war shakes up Idaho grazing leases
Jonathan Marvel, the feisty head of the Idaho Watersheds Project, kicked off a flurry of conflicting bids for Idaho state grazing leases in December. Marvel forked out $1,430 to prevail as the high bidder in three auctions involving a total of 1,320 acres of state land. But the largest sums were bid in auctions that […]
Posted inAugust 8, 1994: Glitz and growth take a major hit in Santa Fe
Eagles fly off the endangered species list
In a rare environmental success story, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Mollie Beattie says her agency will soon reclassify bald eagles from endangered status to threatened, in most of the lower 48 states. Beattie’s proposal, which becomes effective Sept. 28, marks only the 14th time that a species has been rescued from near-extinction under […]
Posted inMay 2, 1994: A struggle for the last grass
Environmentalists strike out in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho – Environmentalists took a thrashing in the 1994 Idaho legislative session, which ended on April Fool’s Day. With conservative Republicans running the House and Senate, the legislature passed laws that enhanced industry at the expense of the environment. “When it suited them, the powers that be shut us out,” said Mexlinda Harm, lobbyist […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
Idaho governor fights for a bombing range
Gov. Cecil D. Andrus, protector of endangered salmon and enemy of nuclear waste, has embarked on a quixotic crusade for a military bombing range in southwest Idaho. Andrus, serving the last year of his fourth term, says he must secure a new bombing range for the Air Force, or Mountain Home Air Force Base will […]
Posted inDecember 13, 1993: Jack Ward Thomas: Hail to the chief
Hail to the Chief
A profile of Jack Ward Thomas, new chief of the Forest Service. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Hail to the Chief.
Posted inNovember 15, 1993: The decline and fall of salmon
A timely solution for the Hells Canyon river war
The Forest Service proposes a plan to appease jet-boaters and other river users in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline A timely solution for the Hells Canyon river war.
Posted inOctober 18, 1993: A lost land grant: Can it be reclaimed?
Idaho Gov. Andrus takes on eight dams
Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus sues federal agencies in an attempt to save endangered salmon on the Snake and Columbia rivers. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Idaho Gov. Andrus takes on eight dams.
Posted inSeptember 20, 1993: Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get out
Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get Out
Locals balk at EPA’s plan to declare Triumph, Idaho, a Superfund site due to mining waste. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get Out.
Posted inSeptember 20, 1993: Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get out
Triumph: A great place to grow kids and fish
Profile of Triumph, an Idaho town that could be declared a Superfund site by the EPA. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Triumph: A great place to grow kids and fish.
Posted inSeptember 20, 1993: Triumph, Idaho, to EPA: Get out
State of Idaho wants to lead the cleanup drive at Triumph
State struggles to find money to pay for the tailings cleanup at Triumph, Idaho. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline State of Idaho wants to lead the cleanup drive at Triumph.
Posted inApril 19, 1993: Clinton flinches under western pressure
Legislature’s anti-green crusade is sidetracked
The state Senate softens House anti-green legislation in Idaho. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Legislature’s anti-green crusade is sidetracked.
Posted inDecember 28, 1992: Audubon's 'ranch' ungrazed, but used
BLM may adopt grazing incentive plan
Prodded by stinging internal audits” and the likelihood that Congress will pass a sweeping reform bill in 1993, Bureau of Land Management officials are pushing a new grazing fee policy they hope will resolve the controversy over use of public lands by livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 9, 1992: Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
Salmon: Can a new plan save the fish?
The key question in 1992 is whether pro-fish political forces, with the aid of the Endangered Species Act, can change dam operations fast enough, and significantly enough, to save the salmon. Some 95 percent of the juvenile salmon are killed by the dams and reservoirs, but so far, the agencies charged with operating the world’s […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 1990: U.S. military plots vast land coups
U.S. military plots vast land coups
If the U.S. military has its way, 3.5 million acres in the West — a vast playground for hikers, sportsmen, arrowhead-collectors, river rats and wildlife — would be converted into a make-believe war zone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E