Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind, by Teresa Jordan, Johnson Books, 1880 S. 57th Court, Boulder, CO 80301, 2000. Paperback: $14. “There is a Zen saying that when the student is ready, the teacher is there,” writes Teresa Jordan, who had carried her watercolors on a dozen different trips, never to […]
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Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Sacred Buffalo Conference
Seven Pueblo tribes will host the third annual Sacred Buffalo Conference, Aug. 13-15 in Santa Fe, N.M. The theme is “Restoring Healthy Native Nations,” and participants will discuss topics ranging from buffalo herd management to diabetes in Indian people. Contact the InterTribal Bison Cooperative at 1560 Concourse Drive, Rapid City, SD 57703 (605/394-9730), www.intertribalbison.org. This […]
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use Watersheds
A conference on Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use Watersheds Aug. 28-31 in Portland, Ore., includes international speakers who will discuss issues from salmon recovery to the effects of earthquakes on riverside habitat. Contact the American Water Resources Association at 4 West Federal St., P.O. Box 1626, Middleburg, VA 20118-1626 (540/687-8390), www.awra.org. This article […]
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
National Mountain Conference
Hiking and mountaineering clubs will sponsor a National Mountain Conference in Golden, Colo., Sept. 14-16. Land managers and outdoor recreation specialists will discuss human impacts on mountain ecosystems, and a field trip to ski area expansions at Vail Pass and Breckenridge is also available. Call conference coordinator at 603/466-2721, ext. 184, send e-mail to melhov@landmarknet.net, […]
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Volunteer Stewards
The state of Colorado is looking for “volunteer stewards” to be its eyes and ears in the field. The state’s Natural Areas Program asks stewards to visit areas such as the alpine meadows surrounding Gothic, Colo., and the desert Escalante Canyon, and report back on what they find. You’ll need a good pair of hiking […]
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Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living
A new directory features maps, cross-referenced charts and an index of 700 religious, environmentally conscious, agricultural and artistic communities. For information about Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living, which sells for $30, call 800/462-8240 or go to http://store.ic.org/. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline […]
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Musicians United to Sustain the Environment
Musicians United to Sustain the Environment will give away an environmentally oriented CD in drawings four times a year. To register, visit www.musemusic.org. Michigan-based MUSE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization raising funds through music for grassroots efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline […]
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Society for Human Ecology
Scientists, educators and urban planners are invited to attend a conference sponsored by the Society for Human Ecology, Oct. 18-22 in Jackson, Wyo. The group looks at how humans interact with their environment – whether the “environment” is a forest or a city. Participants will discuss environmental policy and decision-making as well as urban ecosystems. […]
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National Land Trust Rally
More than 1,200 open-space advocates will join forces at a National Land Trust Rally, Oct. 19-22 in Portland, Ore., for workshops on everything from fund raising to drawing up a conservation easement. Contact the Land Trust Alliance at 1319 F Street NW, Suite 501, Washington, DC 20004 (202/638-4725), or see the Web at www.lta.org/rally.html. This […]
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One big bighorn
The biggest bighorn sheep skull you’ve ever seen is on display this summer at the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center in Dubois, Wyo. It was found in the 1970s, among the remains of camels, cheetahs, musk ox, short-faced bears and bison that fell thousands of years ago into an 80-foot-deep limestone cave in Wyoming’s Bighorn […]
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Barberry bush beats bacteria
A compound from a barberry bush found on Colorado’s Western Slope is helping researchers fight antibiotic resistance. Some bacteria, particularly those that cause staph infections, can become resistant to antibiotics by pumping the drug out of cells before it begins to work. Colorado State University professor Frank Stermitz and Tufts University professor Kim Lewis discovered […]
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Help search for snakes
Hikers, bikers and river rafters should be ready to capture – with cameras, that is – any scaly-skinned critters sunning themselves on Grand Canyon rocks. Nikolle Brown, also known as “the Snake Lady,” needs help documenting reptile sightings for her Snakes of the Grand Canyon Identification and Distribution project. Brown, a seasoned wildlife biologist for […]
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Saving some of Utah
In early June, a coalition of environmental groups completed a three-year, $2.5 million fund-raising effort to protect a historic ranch tucked deep in northern Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. The privately owned ranch provides habitat for elk, mule deer, moose and sandhill cranes, and several historic trails traverse the ranch’s 7,300 acres. But the property is only […]
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The bees’ needs
Golf courses are becoming a great place to learn about the birds and the bees. A Portland, Ore.-based group says that with a little encouragement, native pollinators such as bees and beetles will easily inhabit golf courses. Only a small percentage of any golf course is used by golfers, and the rest has great potential […]
Posted inJuly 31, 2000: Out of the darkness
Vulgar yet valiant
For most of us, a quick glimpse of a plane as it drones overhead on its way to a wildfire is all we’ll ever see of smokejumpers or the work they do, but Murry A. Taylor’s Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper’s Memoir of Fighting Wildfire in the West, offers insight into their hectic lives. Taylor, who […]
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Killing Coyote
The human hordes are still at it, roaming the last of the Big Open with their guns and traps and poisons, trying to wipe out yet another of their fellow creatures. This time, the target is the resilient trickster himself, coyote. Doug Hawes-Davis frames his latest documentary film, Killing Coyote, with the Calcutta, a coyote-killing […]
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Hispanics have a new voice
A new publication in the Four Corners region, El Valle, combines Spanish and English to focus on Hispanic people. “We have a real strong Hispanic community in the Four Corners area and we’re growing,” says publisher and editor LaVerta Valdez-Johnson. “Not many hear about us because our events are not covered in local newspapers.” She […]
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Help Hells Canyon
Managers of Hells Canyon on the Oregon-Idaho border, the deepest river-cut canyon in the world, are hoping for more direction in dealing with increasing numbers of visitors, longstanding grazing and logging and a mandate to protect the area. Until June 20, the public can have a say in the future of the canyon by commenting […]
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Latin American Festival in the Mountains
More than 200 volunteers are needed at the 7th annual Latin American Festival in The Mountains, July 1 in Carbondale, Colo. The festival celebrates Latin American culture through food, arts, crafts and performances. Contact Adriana Chavira at 970/945-4060. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Latin American Festival in […]
Posted inJune 5, 2000: Change on the Plains
Western Issues Conference
Family histories will be told at the Western Issues Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, June 23-24. Writers Kim Barnes, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Philip Deloria and Vicki Ruiz are among those talking to 200 people about living in the West. Contact the Sun Valley Center for the Arts at P.O. Box 656, Sun Valley, ID 83353 […]