Bald eagles are making a comeback after near extinction due to the pesticide DDT.
The Magazine
August 23, 1993: Timber theft: Logging firms rob a lax agency
Forest Service practices permit logging fraud by the Columbia River Scaling and Grading Bureau.
August 9, 1993: Now dust is his crop, says Nevada rancher
Groundwater pumping dries Milt Thompson’s Diamond Valley Ranch.
July 26, 1993: Clinton vs. Foley
House speaker is furious at plan to protect Northwest forests.
June 28, 1993: Now showing in the Grand Canyon: L.A. smog
Governors of eight Western states begin work on a strategy to protect the region’s world-class air before it’s too late.
June 14, 1993: Oregon’s Trojan horse
Oregon’s Trojan nuclear power plant closes permanently after charges of safety violations.
May 31, 1993: Salmon advocates say: the quiet slaughter continues
The issue of whether or not barging salmon around dams is effective is taken to court.
May 17, 1993: Fore! in Santa Fe
A proposed golf course in Santa Fe is another milestone in the area’s cultural transformation.
May 3, 1993: Now that Denver has abdicated … who will coordinate and inspire the West?
A history of Denver’s economic development and rise to prominence as a Western city.
April 19, 1993: Clinton flinches under western pressure
Environmentalists’ euphoria over President Bill Clinton’s Western policies came to an abrupt end in late March, when the White House pulled public land reforms from its new budget.
April 5, 1993: Special issue: Small towns under seige
Aspen, Colo. grapples with the angst of being a rich resort town, a mill closure shakes Kremmling, Colo., Livingston, Mont. is caught off-guard by its popularity, and the West is transformed byte by byte.
March 22, 1993: The dam that won’t die
A showdown between environmentalists and water project advocates nears on the Animus-La Plata water project.
March 8, 1993: A famous skeleton returns to the earth
A paleoIndian skeleton is reburied in Idaho.
February 22, 1993: The continuing saga of New Mexico’s Gray Ranch
The Nature Conservancy sells the biologically diverse Gray Ranch amidst local concern.
February 8, 1993: Lawmakers turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword
Several lawsuits say the government should compensate for land devalued in “takings” cases.
January 25, 1993: Can Bruce Babbitt make Interior hum?
Bruce Babbitt will manage a fragmented and dysfunctional Department of the Interior.
December 28, 1992: Audubon’s ‘ranch’ ungrazed, but used
It’s hard to find prime grassland where you don’t see signs of grazing. This is what makes the National Audubon Society’s Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch near Elgin, Ariz., so valuable.
December 14, 1992: Wilderness bills: What went wrong … and is it time for a new approach?
For the second time in four years, a Montana wilderness bill has been defeated in the closing moments of a Congress, and it wasn’t alone.
November 30, 1992: Pressure builds to change remote park
Chaco Canyon is a battleground, with tourists, environmentalists, business interests and Navajos jousting over whether to build a paved road to a park now served only by dirt roads.
November 16, 1992: The 1992 Election: Nationally a revolution, in the West an evolution
The West has come late and gradually to the experience of cultural diversity and aggressive minorities. But the 1992 election tells us that the region is finally experiencing what it means to be part of America in the late 20th century.