Utahns who live in the booming Salt Lake City area need to manage growth now, says Baseline Scenario, a study by the nonprofit Utah Quality Growth Partnership. The partnership is a coalition of government, civic and business leaders concerned about urban sprawl in a 10-county area, including Salt Lake City. In the 1960s and “70s, […]
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7th Annual Land Use Continuing Education Conference
Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt and John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, will be among the guest speakers at the 7th Annual Land Use Continuing Education Conference in Denver, March 12-13. Topics will include preserving open space, private property rights, small town economic development and urban growth boundaries. Contact the Rocky Mountain Land Use […]
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Soul in your soles
When was the last time you felt mud ooze between your toes? Richard Frazine in The Barefoot Hiker encourages readers to free their feet as well as their minds. No joke: Frazine, who lives in Connecticut, has been hiking unshod for over 20 years even through sleet and snow. He recommends a woodland trail for […]
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When green becomes red
Red ink is red ink, but the U.S. Forest Service and The Wilderness Society color their images of commercial logging on our national forests in grossly different shades. The Forest Service says it made $16 million from commercial timber sales in Oregon and Washington in fiscal year 1996. The Wilderness Society estimates the agency lost […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Western Colorado Pollution Prevention Program
You can’t pick your regulators, but you can pick their brains, says the Western Colorado Pollution Prevention Program. Learn more about environmental regulations from state regulators at an April 22 seminar in Grand Junction, Colo. The daylong seminar costs $15 and class size is limited to 50. Call Sue Kiser at 888/685-8576 or write to […]
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Gunnison River Basin/Grand Valley Water Quality Forum
The chemicals we use on our gardens, lawns, and highways, and the stuff we dump down the drain can cause big problems for streams and rivers, says Steve Glazer with Colorado’s High Country Citizens Alliance. You can learn more at the Gunnison River Basin/ Grand Valley Water Quality Forum Feb. 26 in Montrose, Colo. Contact […]
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7th annual Winter Fishtrap Gathering
-We cannot deal exhaustively with the water concerns of the world in a few hours,” says Rich Wandschneider, director of Fishtrap, a group that explores writing and public policy in Enterprise, Ore. “But we can spend time thinking, talking, reading and writing about water.” Join Fishtrap and writer George Sibley, philosophy professor and nature writer […]
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Mesa County Water Association
The Mesa County Water Association will hold its fifth annual water course Feb. 17 and 25 and March 3 in Grand Junction, Colo. Call 970/242-7490 for information. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Mesa County Water Association.
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BirdSource Great “98 Backyard Bird Count
If you have a birdfeeder, binoculars and access to a computer, you can join the BirdSource Great “98 Backyard Bird Count, Feb 20-22. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society and Cornell University, the project will use the Internet to collect sightings from birdwatchers across the continent, documenting some unusual migration patterns observed this winter. Anyone […]
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Oil leasing sparks debate
OIL LEASING SPARKS DEBATE The U.S. Forest Service’s proposal to open 370,000 acres south of Yellowstone National Park to oil and gas leasing is drawing opposition. The proposal centers on Wyoming, home to wildlife, including wolves and grizzly bears. Environmentalists say drilling threatens the area that serves as a wildlife corridor between the Gros Ventre […]
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Cars to get the boot
CARS TO GET THE BOOT Cars are on their way to the endangered list in three of the country’s most popular parks. The National Park Service wants to replace private cars with light rail in Grand Canyon and expand bus systems in Yosemite and Zion national parks by 2000. “The problem isn’t too many people, […]
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1998 Arkansas River Basin Water Forum
The 1998 Arkansas River Basin Water Forum meets in La Junta, Colo., Feb. 4-5 to talk about endangered species, agriculture and groundwater quality, and other issues that affect the basin, which includes areas of eastern Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico. Former Colorado Sen. Hank Brown and Rep. Robert Schaffer, R-Colo., are keynote speakers. Contact the […]
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North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community
The Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities is calling for papers and creative submissions for the North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, set for Feb. 19-21 at the University of Nevada, Reno. Those whose work is selected will get the chance to join artists, scientists, ranchers and outdoor enthusiasts in workshops and panels. […]
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The International Association of Wildland Fire
The International Association of Wildland Fire holds its second conference March 29-April 1 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The conference, a follow-up to a get-together in 1995, will explore the worldwide effects of fire and fire-management strategies on endangered species and their habitats. “It’s an effort to get the firefighter talking to the fire manager talking […]
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Restoring the Wolf
Abstracts for papers are due by late February for a Defenders of Wildlife conference on Restoring the Wolf, set for Nov. 12-14 in Seattle, Wash. Panel discussions and workshops will focus on wolf ecology, the economics of recovery, grant writing and lobbying and on tap: ambassador wolves from Mission: Wolf, a Colorado-based wolf education and […]
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Heart of Home: People, Wildlife, Place
For many years I was a vegetarian, an avid anti-hunter, who cursed the arrival of the orange-clad mob in the fall that violated everything that was pure and gentle. I was cheered on by many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and John Muir, who urged a gentle alliance with nature, not a violent blood sport. […]
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Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future
If you think preserving natural resources is all about scientific data and arcane legal maneuvers, read Storm Over Mono. In his richly documented account of the battle to save Mono Lake, John Hart focuses on the people who mounted the successful campaign against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Most were ordinary mortals: […]