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Wildlife
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
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
From hardware to software
How the wilderness movement got its start
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 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 […]
Posted inJanuary 15, 2001: Plains sense
Land trade threatens trails and trees
Oregon plans to trade away an intact ecosystem
Posted inDecember 18, 2000: Still here: Can humans help other species defy extinction?
Of raptors, rats and roadkill
At the Northern Rockies Raptor Center in northwestern Montana, Ken Wolff has been nursing injured birds back to health for 12 years. But this August his nonprofit operation hit a small snag. Five hundred pounds of frozen rodents, which Wolff uses to feed birds of prey, failed to arrive at the Missoula airport. He spent […]
Posted inDecember 18, 2000: Still here: Can humans help other species defy extinction?
Still here
Can humans help other species defy extinction?
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Fish fight fowl for water
CALIFORNIA Each fall, about 20 million migrating waterfowl rest and feed in the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, a remnant of once expansive wetlands and lakes in Northern California. This year, they almost got a rude shock: no water. In September, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation stopped delivery of Klamath River water to the refuge, […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Toxic bird feed
Environmental toxins can move through the food chain with surprising speed, James Larison, an Oregon State University biologist, found after studying white-tailed ptarmigans in a 10,000-acre area in central Colorado. Forty-six percent of the birds had accumulated toxic levels of the trace metal cadmium in their kidneys. The sequence, Larison found, begins with willows, an […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Final roadless plan drives Clinton’s legacy
After holding 600 public meetings and reading 1.6 million citizen comments, the U.S. Forest Service released its final version of a plan to limit road-building on nearly one-third of America’s national forests (HCN, 11/8/99: A new road for the public lands). The preferred alternative now includes protecting 9.3 million acres in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Ferrets are back in town
Black-footed ferrets once roamed the prairies of South Dakota. But the destruction of prairie dog towns vastly reduced the ferret’s habitat and pushed it onto the endangered species list. Now, the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe is restoring ferrets to the reservation, where the predators fill an important niche in the fast-disappearing shortgrass prairie ecosystem. So […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Great Backyard Bird Count
Hundreds of thousands of people nationwide will take to the field Feb. 16-19, 2001, for the Great Backyard Bird Count. The National Audubon Society and Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology sponsor the event. Find out about it at www.birdsource.org or call 800/843-2473. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline […]
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Grizzlies invited back to the Bitterroot
The feds give locals control of bearreintroduction
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Last chance for the whitebark pine
A remarkable tree, spread by birds andeaten by bears, finally gets someattention
Posted inNovember 22, 2004: Conservationist in a Conservative Land
A wilderness bill with a little something for everyone
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “A New Dialogue for Idaho.” For wilderness advocates: If passed, the Central Idaho Economic Development Act would create two new wilderness areas in the Boulder-White Cloud mountains, separated only by a narrow dirt-bike trail. The Ernest Hemingway/Jerry Peak Wilderness, above the famous writer’s old home […]
Posted inNovember 6, 2000: 'Re-inhabitation' revisited
Snake River salmon and steelhead
How much do people value the restoration of Snake River salmon and steelhead runs? Environmental economics students and faculty from Reed College in Portland, Ore., and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., are trying to find out using a confidential Web survey. Find the survey at people.whitman.edu/~crouter/survey/intro.htm. This article appeared in the print edition of […]