But will ranchers and Congress buy in?
Stephen Stuebner
Posted inApril 15, 2002: Raising a stink
Raising a stink
Factory dairies catch Idaho’s Magic Valley by surprise
Posted inMarch 18, 2002: How I lost my town
BLM director forced to resign
IDAHO Martha Hahn has been forced out of her job as the Idaho state director of the Bureau of Land Management in a housecleaning move by J. Steven Griles, deputy secretary of the Interior. Hahn announced on March 7 that she would resign rather than take a position with the National Park Service overseeing New […]
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
Global market squeezes sheep ranchers
Foreign competition, low prices drive some ranchers out
Posted inMay 21, 2001: Quenching the big thirst
Idaho reaches for control of the ESA
New office seeks to keep species management closer to home
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
Teach the children well
Corporations, conservationists vie for students’ minds in the unregulated world of environmental education
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
How green is this Tree?
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. What better way to learn about ecology than to study trees? That’s what the founders of Project Learning Tree thought more than two decades ago, when they began one of the most successful environmental education programs in the nation. Today, more than 25 million […]
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
Science teachers go local
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Though every second-grader knows the word “environment,” many will never get any training in environmental studies until they go to college. But they would be assured of it if they got into Jeff Mitchell’s high school biology class in the logging town of Philomath, […]
Posted inMarch 26, 2001: Teach the children well
A quick resource guide for teachers of the wild
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. If teachers take the initiative, they can search the Internet and find instant access to a host of environmental education materials from a wide variety of pro-environment and government sources. Here is a partial list: Teachers new to the field might want to visit […]
Posted inJanuary 29, 2001: Power on the loose
Paul Fritz left a unique legacy for the Park Service
We have reached a time when many conservation legends of the 20th century are disappearing. David Brower, the environmental giant, is a recent example. Now we’ve lost a lesser-known but very influential conservationist. Paul Fritz died quite suddenly on Christmas Eve from an undiagnosed brain tumor. He was 71. Fritz’s generation possesses a pure conviction […]
Posted inNovember 6, 2000: 'Re-inhabitation' revisited
Idaho resorts near ‘wild’ river must go
Judge says the Forest Servicemisinterpreted thelaw
Posted inOctober 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
Libertarian is Chenoweth’s heir apparent
IDAHO The man who could succeed Idaho’s feisty Republican Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage is in hot water with the Environmental Protection Agency. C.L. “Butch” Otter says he recently dug weeds, cattails, rusty car bodies and concrete from the border of a pond next to his home to make the pond more hospitable to wildlife. But the […]
Posted inOctober 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
Washington’s Steel Magnolia
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories. Like her opponent, Slade Gorton, Maria Cantwell is not a native of Washington. She grew up in Indianapolis in a political household – her father was a county commissioner and a city councilman. Cantwell leaped into politics herself at a young age. […]
Posted inOctober 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
Stalking Slade
Tribes, Greens and Democrats hope to ambush Washington Sen. Slade Gorton in November
Posted inApril 24, 2000: At your service: Unions help some Western workers serve themselves
Flashpoint in the Northern Rockies
Burned huts symbolize tension between skiers and snowmobiles
Posted inMarch 27, 2000: The last wild river
What a foggy-headed diatribe
Dear HCN, What a disappointment to see yet another foggy-headed front-page diatribe against recreation fees on federal lands (HCN, 2/14/00: Land of the fee). Instead of trying to shed new light on the issue and search for solutions, the story seemed to be a mirror image of a lead story last year that took a […]
Posted inNovember 22, 1999: Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
FRENCHGLEN, Ore. – Atop 9,600-foot Steens Mountain, a brisk northwest wind races up the spectacular U-shaped canyon of Little Blitzen Creek at dawn. Howling over the top of golden aspen trees in the canyon below, the wind rips up-canyon to a steep alpine bowl at the top of the draw, and – poof! – like […]
Posted inNovember 22, 1999: Go tell it on the mountain
‘Environmentalists will win’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Andy Kerr is a veteran Oregon environmentalist who represents The Wilderness Society on the Steens issue. He is pushing for an end to livestock grazing on Steens Mountain. “The (Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council) is the wrong entity to cut a deal. It has […]
Posted inNovember 22, 1999: Go tell it on the mountain
‘I see lawsuits as a last resort’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Jill Workman is a Portland-based volunteer for the Sierra Club. She believes that livestock grazing should continue on Steens Mountain. “I see lawsuits as a last resort. I’d rather try to work with people. I personally don’t think you can rule those people out. […]
Posted inNovember 22, 1999: Go tell it on the mountain
‘The more protection … the better’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Bill Marlett is the executive director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association. He has filed a number of appeals and a lawsuit against the BLM, all asserting his group’s opposition to grazing on Steens Mountain. “I told (Babbitt) point-blank that we want a date-certain […]