Gloria Flora got the ball rolling. After she resigned as supervisor of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in November (HCN, 11/22/99: Nevadans drive out forest supervisor), the Forest Service sent a team to investigate her charges of “anti-federal fervor” and “fed-bashing” in Nevada. Although the team’s report says that working conditions for Forest Service employees throughout […]
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Posted inFebruary 28, 2000: Acre by acre
Saving the environment saves money
A coalition of 27 environmental, taxpayer and budget-watchdog groups has produced its sixth annual report, Green Scissors 2000, which cites 77 wasteful government programs that harm the environment and cost taxpayers $50 billion. The 26-page report targets programs such as timber and irrigation subsidies and predator control projects, detailing their cost to the taxpayer and […]
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Porta-potties to Posters: Planning Community Events
Community planners and historic site interpreters can prepare for tourism along Lewis and Clark’s historical route by attending a variety of courses at Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Training Academy in Great Falls, Mont. One session offered this summer, Porta-potties to Posters: Planning Community Events, even tells how to prepare for the unexpected. Contact Lewis and […]
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The Murie Center
The Murie Center in Moose, Wyo., in Grand Teton National Park, will host a gathering July 20-23 to celebrate the legacy of the Muries: Mardy and Olaus and Adolph and Louise Murie. The program includes speakers, conversations about wilderness, conservation biology, history, and personal reflections on the contributions the Muries have made to American conservation. […]
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Impressions of Nature, an Internet photography exhibit and auction
American Land Conservancy is presenting Impressions of Nature, an Internet photography exhibit and auction. From March 3-31, visit their on-line gallery at www.impressionsofnature.org and view 71 works (see illustration at right) by renowned nature photographers such as Art Wolfe, Thomas Mangelson and David Muench. Then link to www.ebay.com to bid on the photos. For more […]
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High Altitude Revegetation Workshop
Colorado State University’s High Altitude Revegetation Workshop in Fort Collins, Colo., March 8-10, features William Perry Pendley, director of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, as keynote speaker, and a tour of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Call 970/491-7501 for registration information, and Gary Thor for workshop information, 970/491-7296. This article appeared in the print edition of […]
Posted inFebruary 28, 2000: Acre by acre
Northwest Wilderness Conference
Author David Brower and veteran Northwest environmentalist Polly Dyer will speak at the Northwest Wilderness Conference in Seattle, March 31-April 2, where everything from Lewis and Clark’s legacy to the economic value of wilderness will be discussed. Sponsored by the Wilderness Society and the Northwest Wilderness and Parks Conference, the groups want to increase wilderness […]
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10th Annual Spring Conference
The Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts is sponsoring its 10th Annual Spring Conference in Golden, Colo., April 6-8, opening with a talk by High Country News publisher Ed Marston. Topics include water rights, public policy updates, monitoring and enforcing conservation easements, and finding and using volunteers. Early registration deadline is March 15. Write Colorado Coalition […]
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Book says cows don’t belong on most BLM lands
Debra Donahue, a law professor at the University of Wyoming with an M.S. degree in wildlife biology, has gathered biology, economics and history in her The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. Her proposal to evict livestock from arid rangelands receiving less than 12 inches of precipitation annually is […]
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Drain it now, says organization
Glen Canyon Action Network, an advocacy group that wants to drain Lake Powell, will hold its Restoration Celebration and Rendezvous at Glen Canyon Dam on March 14. The event, which coincides with the International Day of Action Against Dams and the anniversary of author Edward Abbey’s death, “will be a celebration, not a protest,” says […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Amend the Northwest Forest Plan
One million acres of old-growth forests in the Northwest could be opened to logging. The Clinton administration proposes to amend the Northwest Forest Plan to loosen requirements for surveys of rare plants and animals prior to timber sales. Request the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Study at 503/808-2197 or view it on the Web at www.or.blm.gov/nwfpnepa. […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Report card
The National Commission on Small Farms released a report card grading the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s effort to help family farmers. The agency received a “D” for failing to help independent farmers compete against large agribusiness. It earned its best grade, “B’,” for providing marketing assistance. For a copy of the Time to Act report […]
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Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness management plan
The Forest Service has extended the comment deadline for the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness management plan until March 1. The plan will manage 2.4 million acres of wilderness – the largest and one of the most heavily used in the country. Alternative 9 supports restoring wilderness conditions. To request a copy, call 208/756-5100. […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Canaries in the Utah desert
Twenty-seven years ago, Chip Ward and his wife, Linda, left the East Coast to explore the West. Impressed with the desert’s stark beauty, the Wards decided to settle permanently in rural Utah. Little did they know that Grantsville, the sleepy town they chose to call home, sits right in the middle of one of the […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Shaping the Sierra
Even though he is now a professor of planning and landscape architecture at the University of California-Berkeley, Timothy P. Duane manages to fold his childhood memories and love of the “Range of Light” into this hefty and complex book about one of the West’s rapidly developing mountain zones. Like many Westerners with an attachment to […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Women on the move
Women’s roles in the natural-resource professions have changed significantly over the years, and Women in Natural Resources journal has been there to document the progression. Founded by a network of Forest Service women 20 years ago, the approximately 40-page quarterly covers forestry, fisheries, wildlife, range, recreation, soils and related environmental and social sciences. The journal […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
A simpler salmon plan
Amid the hefty government reports, long-winded debates, and lengthy articles that surround salmon recovery in the Northwest, there emerges a 49-page paperback book with a simple message: Help salmon survive. Down to the Sea, by Jay W. Nicholas, a passionate fisheries biologist, struggles to explain Oregon’s recovery proposal to a baby coho salmon. “This is […]
Posted inJanuary 31, 2000: Searching for pasture
Cooling the waters
If the EPA has its way, Potlatch Corp. pulp mill in Lewiston, Idaho, will cool its wastewater and reduce toxic compounds flowing into the Snake River (HCN, 12/06/99). A lawsuit filed by several Idaho environmental groups prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to release a draft of a more stringent water pollution permit. It says Potlatch […]
Posted inJanuary 31, 2000: Searching for pasture
Six Billion Downstream
Some 3,000 people are expected to attend the 18th annual Public Interest Environmental Law conference of the University of Oregon’s Environmental Law Society March 2-5. “Six Billion Downstream” focuses on the interrelationship of all human actions; keynote speakers include David Brower, founder and president of Earth Island Institute, and Charles Wilkinson, author of Fire on […]
Posted inJanuary 31, 2000: Searching for pasture
Wallace Stegner Lecture Series
In Mountain View, Calif., the Wallace Stegner Lecture Series is hosted by Peninsula Open Space Trust, a group responsible for protecting nearly 40,000 acres on the San Francisco Peninsula. Writer Terry Tempest Williams speaks March 30 and inventor/futurist Stewart Brand speaks May 18. Contact Mary Shields at 650/854-7696. This article appeared in the print edition […]