The “Heard Around the West” note about the introduction of the “Smart fortwo” car in the U.S. should, I suppose, seem to be good news (HCN, 5/26/08). We should not be distracted, however, from the fact that the sooner we convert to all-electric vehicles powered by wind turbines or another solar source, the better it […]
Zachary Smith
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Wolf pack wiped out for ‘surplus killing’
During the night of June 29, the nine wolves in the Cook pack took part in what biologists call a “surplus killing” north of McCall. They killed 70 sheep, far more than they could eat. In all, the pack — Idaho’s largest — reportedly killed more than 190 sheep the past two summers. The U.S. […]
Posted inOctober 11, 2004: The First Family of Western Conservation
Biotech companies engineer a ‘superweed’
Genetically engineered golf course turf could creep to public lands
Posted inAugust 30, 2004: How Long Will it Flow?
Interior encourages BLM land sales
Selling public lands will let Western cities sprawl into new territory
Posted inJuly 19, 2004: They're Here: Global Warming's Unlikely Harbingers
Mowing down pollution
The drone of lawn mowers is a classic sign of summer in the suburbs. But these gas guzzlers contribute heavily to another summer phenomenon: smog. The yearly pollution from one gas mower is equivalent to “43 new cars driving 12,000 miles each,” says Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. […]
Posted inJune 7, 2004: Wal-Mart's Manifest Destiny
Buying time against the energy assault
Do oil and gas leases offer citizens a chance to save the land?
Posted inJune 7, 2004: Wal-Mart's Manifest Destiny
Wilderness up for lease
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “Buying time against the energy assault.” As industry gobbles up oil and gas leases across the West, citizen-proposed wilderness areas, which encompass millions of acres of public lands, have become battlegrounds. Under a Clinton-era policy, these areas […]
Posted inMay 24, 2004: In Search of Solidarity
New Mexico may change wolf policy
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “Wolf foes get medieval.” A troubled wolf-recovery effort in the Southwest may have found an unlikely ally: The traditionally anti-wolf New Mexico Game Commission has asked the state Game and Fish Department to re-evaluate its management of […]