Exploring Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: The Land Ethic and the American West in the 21st Century will be the topic of the third annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium April 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The keynote speaker is Pat Shea, director of the Bureau of Land Management, who will be joined by conservation biologist Curt […]
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101st National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition
The 101st National Western Mining Conference & Exhibition will be held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo., April 15-18. Speakers include Ronald Cambre, president of Newmont Mining Corp., the largest gold producer in North America, and Rep. Dan Shaefer, R-Colo., who will host a panel discussion on deregulating the electric utility industry. Contact […]
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Are feedgrounds forever?
Gov. Jim Geringer will join sportsmen, biologists and ranchers to ask: Are Feedgrounds Forever? at the Wyoming Wildlife Federation annual meeting, May 15-17 in Dubois, Wyo. Problems with and alternatives to winter feedgrounds for elk, bighorn sheep and bison will be debated. Contact WWF coordinator Tory Taylor for details at 307/455-2161 or by e-mail: metaylor@wyoming.com. […]
Posted inMarch 30, 1998: A bare-knuckled trio goes after the Forest Service
North Zone Volunteer and Internship Opportunities Guide
Three Western states need volunteers to help as naturalists, field biologists and wilderness rangers. Public-land agencies in Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska invite high school groups and college students to get hands-on field experience during the 1998 summer season. For a free copy of the North Zone Volunteer and Internship Opportunities Guide, compiled in user-friendly […]
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High Desert Conference
The 20th annual High Desert Conference, “On the Cusp of Change: Charting a New Century in the High Desert,” is slated for April 30-May 3 at the Malheur Field Station near Burns, Ore. The Oregon Natural Desert Association, Committee for Idaho’s High Desert, and Friends of Nevada Wilderness will host the weekend of field trips, […]
Posted inMarch 16, 1998: Olympic onslaught: Salt Lake City braces for the winter games
18-month moratorium
The Forest Service will hold 25 open houses about its proposed 18-month moratorium on building new roads in the nation’s forests. Meetings will be held in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming, beginning March 17. For information about where and when, call Alan Polk at 202/205-1134 or check the Web at […]
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Glacier National Park
Are you planning to camp in Glacier National Park this summer? Better think ahead. Beginning March 15, reservations for the Fish Creek and St. Mary’s campgrounds can be made up to three months in advance by calling 800/365-CAMP. Nightly fees will be $15 at both campgrounds, whether or not campers have a reservation. Write Glacier […]
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University of Colorado’s Wirth Chair
In Colorado, all media, from newspapers to radio stations, that have covered the issue of sustainability are eligible to apply for a media award from the University of Colorado’s Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy. Winners get the chance to pick the recipient of a $1,500 graduate student scholarship. Grants of $1,500 are […]
Posted inMarch 2, 1998: Wild horses: Do they belong in the West?
Club 20
Club 20, a regional chamber of commerce for Colorado’s Western Slope, will hold its 46th annual meeting March 6-7 in Grand Junction. Guest speakers and panelists include Rep. Scott McInnis, R, Louisiana-Pacific CEO Mark Suwyn, HCN publisher Ed Marston, and Rick O’Donnell, executive director of the Center for the New West. Panel discussions will address […]
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1998 Southwest Earth Studies Program
College students are invited to apply to the 1998 Southwest Earth Studies Program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. The eight-week summer program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is “a research program into the nature of research itself,” using the problem of acid mine drainage in the nearby San Juan Mountains to investigate […]
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Forest Stewardship Council
Since 1993, the Forest Stewardship Council has been promoting earth-friendly forest products. The Council’s logo is a “green” label for furniture, guitars, hardwood floors and other products that have been produced with care for communities and the environment. From March 11-13, the Forest Stewardship Council will make its debut in the Rockies, touring Boise, Salt […]
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Green jeans in Eugene
Land Air Water (LAW), the University of Oregon law student group, invites people to climb trees with the Ruckus Camp, learn about land trusts and listen to environmental leaders such as David Brower and Winona LaDuke. All this is happening in Eugene, Ore., March 5-8 at the 16th annual Public Interest Law Conference: Activists and […]
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Protecting raptors
Rock climbers are not the only acrobats that frequent cliffs. Raptors such as peregrine falcons nest and roost on lofty rocks and can be scared away from their chicks by careless climbers. Nationwide, nearly 60 crags have temporary climbing restrictions to protect these birds, but in many cases, raptors and climbers can coexist peacefully, says […]
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Colorado BLM going wild?
The Bureau of Land Management has announced that an additional 167,000 acres of public land in western Colorado are eligible for wilderness status. When the BLM’s roadless lands were first surveyed in 1980, 800,000 acres in western Colorado were given protection as potential wilderness areas. The new acreage may now be added to these existing […]
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Learning sustainable technology
They’re not the Bureau of Reclamation, but they will teach you how to build a dam. A very small dam, that is. Solar Energy International (SEI) will offer courses in water, wind and solar power during its 1998 Renewable Energy Education Program. Over the past 16 years the Carbondale, Colo., nonprofit has established renewable energy […]
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Tribes and a university improve ties
Northwest Indian tribes have an ally in Washington State University, a supporter of Native American studies since 1970. Last November, 10 tribes and the university set up an advisory board to cooperate on education and research issues, such as saving Pacific Northwest salmon, formerly a critical part of many tribal cultures. The agreement creates “a […]
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Backyard birds
A new report by the Colorado Division of Wildlife helps backyard birders care for what they’re watching. For instance, cleaning feeders with soap and rinsing with a dilute bleach solution followed by plain water can help prevent the spread of diseases like avian pox and salmonellosis. And if you take a few months off from […]
Posted inFebruary 16, 1998: Private rights vs. public lands
Quincy comes up short
A professor at the University of California at Berkeley has taken a scholarly look at the Quincy Library Group and at its plan and decided that both are flawed, but not because he opposes consensus efforts. In the same article, Timothy P. Duane finds that a consensus group in California’s Yuba River watershed does something […]
Posted inFebruary 16, 1998: Private rights vs. public lands
Working the Watershed
Richard Manning’s article “Working the Watershed” (HCN, 3/17/97) could easily have been titled “Overworking the Watershed.” It described efforts to restore salmon fisheries and oyster beds to Willapa Bay, a part of southwestern Washington state that has been logged and logged and logged again. Now the neighboring, and similarly overworked, Chinook watershed is the subject […]
Posted inFebruary 16, 1998: Private rights vs. public lands
Green Building Resource Center
Design professionals interested in incorporating “green” practices into their work have a new site on the Web. From straw-bale houses to national parks, the Green Building Resource Center provides information about energy efficiency, water conservation and other sustainable-design issues. The site is operated by two nonprofits, the Salt Lake-based Global Environmental Options (GEO) and Building […]