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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Shrink Rap Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground		23 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Shrink Rap Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, and Some ATV Owners See a New Playground If you're feeling a little low today, just consider the fate of Utah's Great Salt Lake -- which is feeling even lower, we guarantee. Following five years of drought, the famed lake is experiencing near-record lows and is dropping at a rate of about an inch per week. As a result, the surrounding wetlands -- prime insect an ...
Topics: lakes, outdoor recreation, Utah, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

For Never Wild		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
For Never Wild A coalition of environmentalists has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its recent decision to prevent the Bureau of Land Management from considering any more Western land for wilderness designation. Areas set aside for protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act are protected from motorized recreation and most forms of development. In 1996, however, the state of Utah challenged t ...
Topics: Arizona, United States, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
If It Weren't for Those Medal-ing Kids The 2002 Winter Olympics open tomorrow in Salt Lake City, and not everybody's thrilled about it. Environmentalists say developers took advantage of the games to permanently damage the pristine Rocky Mountain environment, even though protecting the natural world is now the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, deforestation, logging, outdoor recreation, placemaking, US Forest Service, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Retirement Party		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Retirement Party Utah Republican Jim Hansen, who has served 11 terms in the U.S. House, most recently as chair of the Resources Committee, announced yesterday that he will not seek reelection this year. The announcement came as a surprise to even some of his closest staff members -- and a welcome one to environmentalists. Hansen started off light green, proposing a recycling measure while se ...
Topics: green living, politics, recycling, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

More Internet Smut A scientist fights back against exotics	Lisa Jones	11 Apr 2000	Main Dish
The Western U.S. has many well-known problems -- overgrazing, rampant development, Garth Brooks look-alikes. But one troublesome issue that hasn't gotten much attention is cheatgrass, an exotic weed that arrived here in the 1890s and has since taken over an area the size of Montana. Cheatgrass never prospers? Photo: Russel Stevens/Chuck Coffey, Noble Foundation. Because cheatgrass (aka: downy brome, junegrass, a ...
Topics: Utah, wildlife (all these topics)

Bee All That You Can Be This scientist is making quite a buzz	Lisa Jones	23 Sep 1999	Main Dish
The San Rafael Desert -- 500 square miles of rolling gravel broken by an occasional butte or sandstone formation -- certainly isn't the prettiest place in eastern Utah. Dotted with cattle and exploratory oil rigs, it is a living example of the federal government's policy of multiple use on public lands. For just about anybody driving along its western edge, the desert is an unremarkable preamble to the celebr ...
Topics: scientific research, Utah, wildlife (all these topics)

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