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Blazing Addles What climate scientists have learned from Western wildfires	Josh McDaniel	23 Oct 2006	Main Dish
Many wildland firefighters carry an instrument called a sling psychrometer. It consists of two encased thermometers, and is swung above the head on a short rope -- making the firefighters appear not unlike David readying to slay Goliath. The instrument gives a quick field reading of relative humidity, one of the most important factors in predicting what a wildfire is going to do. Quick drops i ...
Topics: climate, West (all these topics)

Things That Go Dump in the Night Illegal dumps sprout up across the American West		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Things That Go Dump in the Night Illegal dumps sprout up across the American West Amber waves of grain? Purple mountain majesties? These days in the American West, it's illegal dumps that are proliferating under the spacious skies: heaps of car parts, furniture, appliances, and household trash discarded on public land. The Bureau of Land Management has identified 6,482 illegal dumps since 2000, p ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

An Accident Waiting to Aspen Aspens are dying mysteriously in the Western U.S.		26 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
An Accident Waiting to Aspen Aspens are dying mysteriously in the Western U.S. Aspens, the most widely distributed trees in North America, are rapidly dying in some Western states -- and no one knows why. The culprit may be insects, or climatic stress, or overgrazing. Or all of those. Or none of them. It may be a lack of recent avalanches and fires, because aspens thrive in the aftermath of disaster. Or the aspen die-off may have been ...
Topics: news, West, wildlife (all these topics)

So That's Why It's Called Death Valley Climate change threatens national parks in the western U.S.		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
So That's Why It's Called Death Valley Climate change threatens national parks in the western U.S. Glacier National Park without glaciers? If global warming keeps on keepin' on, 12 of the most famous U.S. national parks are at serious risk, says a report released yesterday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. Temperatures in the Western U.S. have risen twice as fa ...
Topics: climate, national parks, news, NRDC, West (all these topics)

ELF Sacrifice Three plead guilty to eco-motivated arson in the West		21 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
ELF Sacrifice Three plead guilty to eco-motivated arson in the West Three people pleaded guilty yesterday to being part of a group that set fire to ranger stations, wild-horse corrals, a ski resort, and lumber mill offices in the Western U.S. in recent years. The 16 attacks harmed no people, but caused more than $20 million in damage. "This is a substantial step in resolution of th ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, environmental justice, news, politics, West (all these topics)

Can We Get Back Into the Frying Pan? Climate change making wildfires worse, study finds		07 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Can We Get Back Into the Frying Pan? Climate change making wildfires worse, study finds Wildfires in the Western U.S. are increasing in frequency and size, and our drier, hotter climate seems to be to blame, says a new study published in Science. Researchers analyzed 1,166 large fires in the West and found that wildfire frequency increased "suddenly and dramatically" in the mid-1980s. Comparing data from 1970 to 1986 with dat ...
Topics: climate, news, West (all these topics)

Sear in the Headlights Summer in Western U.S. is off to a hot, dry, fiery start		22 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Sear in the Headlights Summer in Western U.S. is off to a hot, dry, fiery start In Western states, wildfires and heat waves are getting an early start this year -- a pattern unsurprising to climate scientists, and likely to get worse. Wildfires have already burned more than 3 million acres, more than triple the average for this time of year. Meanwhile, a recent Denver heat wave was the earliest of the year since recordkeepin ...
Topics: climate, Colorado, news, West (all these topics)

All Right, Heartland, You're Up Western governors resolve to combat climate change		12 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
All Right, Heartland, You're Up Western governors resolve to combat climate change Western states need to reduce greenhouse gases while meeting growing energy demand, says a resolution passed unanimously yesterday by members of the self-explanatorily named Western Governors Association. However, the pact neglects to prescribe specific actions. "My friends," California Gov. Arnold Sc ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, climate, energy, news, politics, West (all these topics)

That Thing Utah Do! Bill to sell federal land in Utah could set off cascade of land sales		07 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
That Thing Utah Do! Bill to sell federal land in Utah could set off cascade of land sales In the American West, many of the fastest-growing regions contain the most federally owned land, which limits expansion. This puts developers, local officials, and the vacation-home set in conflict with the public interest, and ... well, we hardly need to finish that sentence, right? Some members of Congress from Western st ...
Topics: news, placemaking, Utah, West, wilderness (all these topics)

This Land Is Poorly Managed Land BLM accused of not preserving cultural sites		17 May 2006	Daily Grist
This Land Is Poorly Managed Land BLM accused of not preserving cultural sites Hundreds of millions of acres of public lands are going unprotected, with their historical artifacts undocumented, as the Bush administration focuses Bureau of Land Management funds and staffing resources on energy development in the West, according to a new report from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under a feder ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Careful, The Last Hunter Who Crossed Cheney ... Hunters, anglers fight Bushies' efforts to sell or drill on public lands		21 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Careful, The Last Hunter Who Crossed Cheney ... Hunters, anglers fight Bushies' efforts to sell or drill on public lands Bush administration plans to sell off big chunks of public land and open other parcels to drilling are meeting stiff opposition from a traditionally Republican constituency: the hook-and-bullet crowd. Hunters and anglers anxious to protect fish and game are being wooed by ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, outdoor recreation, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Dust Breathe EPA seeks to rescind clean-air protections for rural areas		19 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Dust Breathe EPA seeks to rescind clean-air protections for rural areas A new Bush administration proposal would strip significant clean-air protections from rural areas. The U.S. EPA would exempt these areas from meeting federal standards for coarse particulate matter -- essentially, windblown clouds of dust -- and end federal monitoring of particulate levels in those locales. The weakened regulations would have a parti ...
Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA, West (all these topics)

How the West Was Won ... Back Land-rich regions' residents tell hungry politicians to back off	Pat Williams	18 Jan 2006	Soapbox
It is difficult to recognize change while living through it. However, two recent decisions involving the use of the public's lands signal a historic political and policy transition, particularly here in the Rocky Mountain West. The first of those two is the almost unanimous rejection by Western governors of the Bush administration's multiyear attempt to punch roads into the ...
Topics: politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Land Phil Phil Brick, environmental-politics professor, answers readers' questions		21 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Phil Brick, director of Whitman College Semester in the West. How do you talk about human living environments and their interaction with the "wilderness" in your semester?�� -- Kristen Wilson, Oaxaca, Mexico A major focus of Semester in the West is to acquaint students with people who work with nature every day. Most of our students come from urban backgrounds, so I think it is important to ...
Topics: education, InterActivist, interview, West (all these topics)

How the West Was Fun Phil Brick, environmental-politics professor, answers Grist's questions		17 Oct 2005	InterActivist
Phil Brick. What work do you do? I am professor of politics and codirector of environmental studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. I am also the founder and director of an environmental-studies field program, Whitman College Semester in the West, a three-month field tour focusing on the political, ecological, and human dimensions of environmental issues in the American West. What do ...
Topics: education, InterActivist, interview, West (all these topics)

Reservoir Hogs Norton won't reduce water releases from Lake Powell		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Reservoir Hogs Norton won't reduce water releases from Lake Powell Following a year's worth of unsuccessful negotiations between governors of seven parched Western states, Interior Secretary Gale Norton stepped in yesterday to make a decision on how to divvy up the much-coveted water of the Colorado River. A winter of heavy precipitation and subsequent spring thaws have made the debate over how much water to d ...
Topics: Colorado River, lakes, news, politics, West (all these topics)

Smoking Frac Hydraulic fracturing raises concerns over water in Western U.S.		15 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Smoking Frac Hydraulic fracturing raises concerns over water in Western U.S. Despite persistent concerns about its effects on groundwater, the practice of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracing") appears likely to receive an exemption from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act in legislation under consideration by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Fracing involves pumping highly pressurized fluids ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, West (all these topics)

Quibbles and Bits New strategies aim to limit drilling impact in Western U.S.		13 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Quibbles and Bits New strategies aim to limit drilling impact in Western U.S. As pressure mounts from greens and the hook-and-bullet crowd to slow the pace of energy development in the American West, some companies are moving to support conservation research and employ strategies to lessen their impact. One such method, called "directional drilling," involves the use of high-tech equipment to operate ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, placemaking, West (all these topics)

Behind Enemy Livestock Ranchers, greens unite to fight oil and gas wells in West		24 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Behind Enemy Livestock Ranchers, greens unite to fight oil and gas wells in West Ranchers and environmentalists have traditionally gone together like chocolate and, uh, people who really hate chocolate. But of late, they have been overlooking past tussles to fight a common enemy: increasingly ubiquitous oil and gas drilling in the Western U.S. The ranchers say the drilling process often sickens or kills livestock ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, ranching, West (all these topics)

Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air		24 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air A market-based program used by five Western states to control haze in national parks and wilderness areas was rejected by a federal appeals court Friday. Brought to court in a challenge by a coal and utilities industry group, the states' efforts to cut sulfur-dioxide pollution and improve air quality and visibility in the parks w ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Seeing Is Believing Dramatic weather convinces many Westerners of global warming		08 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Seeing Is Believing Dramatic weather convinces many Westerners of global warming As the Western U.S. increasingly suffers from what many scientists believe are the effects of climate change -- reduced snowpack, massive forest fires, alternating drought and torrential rain -- more and more residents are accepting the reality of the phenomenon. "Do I believe in global warming? Absolutely," said Reese Woodling, who last year abandone ...
Topics: climate, West (all these topics)

Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks Air quality and visibility at more than a dozen of the nation's oldest and most beloved national parks and monuments, including Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park, are under threat from the ongoing boom in natural-gas drilling in the Western U.S. Officials from the Bureau of Land Management admit that the ...
Topics: air pollution, mining and drilling, national parks, West (all these topics)

Her Name Is Rio The new anthology Rio Grande chronicles the life and troubled times of a fabled river	Dan Oko	30 Nov 2004	Arts and Minds
Rio Grande, edited by Jan Reid, U. of Texas Press, 337 pgs., 2004. The week before I sat down to read Rio Grande, a thick new anthology about the famed river edited by Texas scribe Jan Reid, a strange sight appeared on the actual Rio Grande outside the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. A fiberglass statue of Jesus was discovered grounded on a sandbar in the river, drawing ...
Topics: Mexico, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics)

Sage Brush With Death Millions of oil and gas dollars at stake in sage grouse controversy		11 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sage Brush With Death Millions of oil and gas dollars at stake in sage grouse controversy The question of whether to list the sage grouse -- a chicken-sized bird that roams the sagebrush plains of the U.S. West -- as threatened is shaping up as an epic conflict, with millions of dollars in revenue from oil and natural-gas drilling on the line. There were once some 2 million sage grouse ranging over the 270 million acre ...
Topics: mining and drilling, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Where There's Heat, There's Fire Massive forest fires may be caused by global warming		08 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Where There's Heat, There's Fire Massive forest fires may be caused by global warming The massive forest fires that have ravaged the American West in recent years may be caused by global warming, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The Bush administration has argued that the fires are unnatural, caused by overgrown forest ground cover, and more logging, er, "thinning" is needed to prevent them -- thus the Healt ...
Topics: climate, logging, West (all these topics)

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