By the beginning of the 1996 school year, the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Public Affairs will choose a professor to hold the Timothy E. Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy. The chair honors the former Colorado senator who is currently undersecretary of state for global affairs, appointed by President Bill Clinton. […]
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Posted inApril 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
Retreat
-It is better to conquer yourself than win a thousand battles.” “The Buddha. The Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico’s Carson Forest will hold three eight-day meditation retreats from August through September for environmental and social activists. Not for networking or strategizing, these retreats provide silence, meditation training and spiritual renewal for a limited number […]
Posted inApril 1, 1996: Gambling: A tribe hits the jackpot
Clearing the air on the Colorado Plateau
CLEARING THE AIR ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU It’s decision time for the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission, the group charged with restoring clean air to the five-state Colorado Plateau. Congress established the commission, which includes five Western governors and industry and environmental representatives, in 1991, allowing it five years to develop a plan to reduce […]
Posted inApril 1, 1996: Gambling: A tribe hits the jackpot
Managing Natural Resources
Utah State University holds an annual Natural Resources Week symposium, and this year’s get-together April 17-19 focuses on Managing Natural Resources at the Urban Interface: The Challenge of a Changing West. Speakers include Richard Knight of Colorado State University, Luther Propst of the Sonoran Institute in Tucson, and sustainable-business advocate Paul Hawken. Contact Conference and […]
Posted inApril 1, 1996: Gambling: A tribe hits the jackpot
Symposium on Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience
Environmental activists and students will gather on the Whitman College campus in Walla Walla, Wash., for the Symposium on Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience Earth Day weekend, April 19-21. Hosted by the Columbia River Bioregion Campaign and the college, the symposium is based on the teachings and lives of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Johann Galtung, […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Desert rendezvous
DESERT RENDEZVOUS Restoring riparian zones and passing a ballot initiative are two topics participants will talk about at the 18th annual High Desert Conference April 25-28. Sponsors of A Desert Wildlands Revival: Water, Wildlife and Wilderness in The High Desert include the Oregon Natural Desert Association, Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club and Committee for […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Tailings pile makes waves
Tailings pile makes waves Uranium mine tailings piled on the banks of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, will stay put if the Nuclear Regulatory Agency and Atlas Minerals Co. get their way. In a draft environmental impact statement released in January, the federal agency says reclaiming the tailings mountain on site – as the […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
They did it themselves
They did it themselves Some 200 federal employees and outside experts have developed a sweeping management plan for public lands in the six states of the Columbia River Basin. And it didn’t cost taxpayers a dime. It was done under the auspices of the nonprofit AFSEEE, the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics. […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Just a little advice
JUST A LITTLE ADVICE A county commissioner in Colorado thinks he can help newcomers adjust to the rural parts of Larimer County. John Clarke has written a seven-page primer, The Code of the West, which includes some useful tips. About utilities: even cellular phones won’t work in all areas; Mother Nature: expansive soils can buckle […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Naked and marvelous
NAKED AND MARVELOUS The Colorado Plateau and its Drainage, a topographic map by Kenneth Perry, is the closest most of us will ever come to seeing the West from heaven. Perry combines USGS data with sophisticated Macintosh graphics to create maps that are both useful and colorful. While Raven Graphics maps are handsome and accurate, […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Arid art
Arid Art An Englishman from Cornwall in the west of England, Tony Foster is fascinated by the American West’s wilderness of eroded rocks and deserts, including Death Valley in California and the slickrock onion domes of Utah’s canyonlands. An exhibit of his latest work, Arid Lands, Watercolor Diaries of Journeys across Deserts, can be seen […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Environmental heroes
Not surprisingly, “environmental zeroes’ eclipsed “environmental heroes’ in the first session of the 104th Congress, according to the scorecard released last month by the League of Conservation Voters. The group’s 26th annual report rates lawmakers on key environmental votes, such as legislation to close national parks and to sell public lands. Contact the League of […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
Small Farming in Oregon
The Oregon State University Extension Service will host a conference for owners of small farms March 29-30 at Linfield College in McMinnville. Small Farming in Oregon will offer more than 40 workshops on subjects ranging from water rights to mushroom and ginseng production. Registration is $25 for one day and $40 for both days. Contact […]
Posted inMarch 18, 1996: What does the West need to know?
The Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology and the West
Missoula Mayor Daniel Kemmis, author Terry Tempest Williams and other Westerners will speak at the Wallace Stegner Center Symposium, called The Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology and the West. The symposium, scheduled for April 12-13 at the University Park Hotel in Salt Lake City, will explore themes of cooperation and ecosystem management in the […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say 'Enough is enough'?
Environmental Action “96: Winning in November
L earn grassroots lobbying and election organizing at Environmental Action “96: Winning in November. The free Feb. 24-25 conference features a keynote address by Jim Baca, former director of the BLM, and an environmental forum with Colorado’s U.S. Senate candidates. Sponsors include CoPIRG, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and Campus Greenvote. Contact the University […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say 'Enough is enough'?
The Snake River, Balancing the Vision
Idaho Rivers United and dozens of private and government agencies are co-sponsoring the fourth bi-annual river symposium: “The Snake River: Balancing the Vision.” Former Gov. Cecil Andrus opens the program, scheduled for Feb. 29-March 2 at the Weston Plaza Hotel in Twin Falls, Idaho. Contact Idaho Rivers United, P.O. Box 633, Boise, ID (800/574-7481). This […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say 'Enough is enough'?
Seventh North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference
Western literature, politics and ecology will merge at the Seventh North American Interdisciplinary Wilderness Conference. The event is sponsored by the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno, and will take place at the Nugget in Reno. The Feb. 29-March 2 workshop features T.H. Watkins, editor of Wilderness magazine, and […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say 'Enough is enough'?
13th National Trails Symposium
Trails ranging from urban bikeways to wilderness hiking paths will be discussed at the 13th National Trails Symposium, March 9-12, in Washington, D.C. American Trails, public-lands agencies and the Federal Highway Administration are sponsoring the workshop, which also features special on-the-trail field trips in the D.C. area. Contact American Trails, Box 200787, Denver, CO 80220 […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say 'Enough is enough'?
Small town design
SMALL TOWN DESIGN Conservation and development can go head-to-head in rural America. A new publication describes a two-year project in which landscape architects worked with rural communities to combine the two. The National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service sponsored the arrangement, which placed a landscape architect […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 1996: Can a Colorado ski county say 'Enough is enough'?
Our living resources
OUR LIVING RESOURCES Consider a two-inch-thick tome produced by the federal government and your eyelids are likely to fall. If the volume is Our Living Resources, your reaction could be just the opposite. Anyone interested in ecological issues may find this report indispensable. To begin with, the 530-page document holds page after page of full-color […]