NORTHWEST Salmon in the Snake River are in hot water, and so is the Army Corps of Engineers. On Feb. 16, a federal judge gave the Corps 60 days to come up with a plan to reduce temperatures and dissolve gas content along the river. The court ruled that the Corps violated the Clean Water […]
Wildlife
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
Not your average Paul Bunyan
Not all forest workers wield axes and chainsaws. In the oral history compilation Voices from the Woods: Lives and Experiences of Non-timber Forest Workers, 32 mushroom harvesters, tree planters, medicinal herb gatherers, and wild huckleberry harvesters articulate their lives and work in the forests of the Pacific Northwest (HCN, 2/15/99: An entrepreneurial spirit). Antonio Perez […]
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
U.S. mills fall under Canadian ax
Flood of Canadian timber hurts U.S. markets and the earth
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
The tale of a salmon slinger
NEHALEM RIVER, Ore. – My throwing arm always left something to be desired. A decent hitter, I was always a disaster on the softball field. Even when I could catch the ball, I couldn’t throw it to save my life. I didn’t think about that, though, when I signed on with Oregon’s Department of Fish […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
State to coyote hunters: Let the games begin
UTAH Those who spent $19.95 on one of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee’s cuddly replicas of “Copper the Coyote,” a mascot for the 2002 Winter Olympics, could have gotten the little guy for free. Or, at least in exchange for gunning down a real coyote and sending its ears to local county officials. The Olympic […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Will logging save the spotted owl?
A symbol of conflict struggles to survive
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
An agency in need of refuge?
Greens, managers wrangle over how to rescue neglected wildlife refuges
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Idaho predators are under the gun
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. The wolf will enjoy federal protection for at least a few more years, but other Idaho predators aren’t so lucky. In August, the seven-member Idaho Fish and Game Commission, which sets the agenda for the state Department of Fish and Game, adopted the state’s […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt's wild ride
Coyote killing continues
COLORADO On Jan. 11, the Colorado Wildlife Commission approved a nine-year, $2.6 million coyote-killing experiment in western Colorado. Some deer hunters, outfitters and sheep ranchers in the state have lobbied long and hard for coyote control, blaming the predators for a plummeting deer population. Deer have declined in Colorado for 40 years, and biologists say […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt's wild ride
Owl things considered
SOUTHWEST After eight years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has settled one of the Southwest’s most embittered endangered species debates – or has it? On Jan. 18, the Fish and Wildlife Service designated 4.6 million acres in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as critical habitat for the Mexican spotted owl. […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt's wild ride
Sex-swappin’ salmon
Puzzling piscine sex reversals have left salmon researchers scratching their heads. A study released by the University of Idaho and Washington State University reported that of the female salmon sampled, 84 percent tested positive for a male genetic marker, suggesting that these females actually began life as males. Sex reversals could hold clues to declining […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt's wild ride
Don Ewy is no timber beast
HCN subscriber Don Ewy is not your typical logger. A self-described environmentalist who has fought to limit development on public lands, Ewy has selectively logged small trees in North Park, Colorado’s only state forest, for the past 31 years. During that time his only employees have been his three children, and he says his daughter […]
Posted inFebruary 12, 2001: Mr. Babbitt's wild ride
A new plan frames the Sierra Nevada
Opponents have criticized everything from the science to the sentence structure
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
Swift fox may lose the race
The last days of the Clinton administration haven’t all been rosy for environmentalists. In early January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dropped the swift fox as a candidate for endangered species listing. Environmentalists petitioned the federal government eight years ago to protect the housecat-sized canine under the Endangered Species Act. But the Swift Fox […]
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
A slow comeback for Mexican wolves
Mexican gray wolves continue to die along the Arizona-New Mexico line. In December, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials found a dead wolf outside of Reserve, N.M. It was the 21st Mexican gray wolf to die or disappear since the agency first released captive animals into the Apache National Forest in 1998 (HCN, 12/21/98: Wolf killers […]
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
Tagging a protest
Opponents of a new pass to visit the Red Rock area of Coconino National Forest near Sedona, Ariz., are using a rearview mirror tag to claim exemption from fees. The Forest Service says its fee demonstration program is needed to restore and enhance a scenic treasure, but members of the AZ NoFee Coalition fear “the […]
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
Roadless plan slides to safety
Dombeck stakes out his vision for federal forests
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
Service leaves endangered species in limbo
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt reshaped a powerful conservation tool
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
From hardware to software
How the wilderness movement got its start
Posted inJanuary 15, 2001: Plains sense
Salmon plan grows a few teeth
NORTHWEST The Clinton administration’s final rendition of a Northwest salmon plan is tougher than the last one, but it still doesn’t call for the dismantling of four federal dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington. Instead, the federal government will try other measures, including restoring rivers and streams where salmon spawn, and giving added […]