Grist | Topics | 72 Results

RESULTS		Results 51 – 72 of 72
Page:1 2 3
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ...
Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Dam Straight!		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Dam Straight! In what environmentalists hope is the beginning of a major trend, 60 dams across the U.S. are slated for demolition this year and hundreds more are targeted for removal. Last week, for example, Portland General Electric signed a deal to remove the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River in Oregon and a smaller dam on the Little Sandy. Typically, dams being dismantled are no lon ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, hydropower, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics)

Not With a Bang but a Whimper		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Not With a Bang but a Whimper The Bush administration's plan to open federal lands in the western U.S. to oil and gas drilling would produce a measly amount of energy and a massive amount of environmental destruction, according to a Wilderness Society report released yesterday. The proposed drilling areas, which are scattered throughout millions of acres in six Rocky Mountain states and include som ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Wet Behind the Ears		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Wet Behind the Ears In what it is calling a remedy to the excesses of the Clinton years, the Bush administration is paving the way for Western states to gain control over huge volumes of water previously claimed by the federal government. One prominent example of this new policy involves the Black Canyon National Park in Colorado; in 1978, a court ruled that the feds had the right to ...
Topics: national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Can't See the Trees for the Forest Service		05 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Can't See the Trees for the Forest Service Two House Democrats have accused the U.S. Forest Service of cooking its books in order to blame environmentalists for the fires that raged across much of the West this summer. Reps. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) spoke out yesterday against a recent USFS report in which the agency claimed that environmental appeals delayed 48 percent of proj ...
Topics: Jay Inslee, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Lambs to the Slaughter		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Lambs to the Slaughter The wildfires that are raging across the western U.S. this summer aren't just threatening the trophy homes of billionaires; they are also posing a danger to wildlife. Take bighorn sheep, which were reintroduced to the shores of Washington state's Lake Chelan after a century's absence. The sheep were finally gaining a foothold in the area; about 17 lambs were born in the spring, bringing the population to a ...
Topics: West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

In the Line of Fire Life in the Stupid Zone	Michelle Nijhuis	11 Jul 2002	Soapbox
Writer Ed Quillen says that town and county planners should adopt a new category called the Stupid Zone. You know some Stupid Zone residents, I'm sure: those nearsighted folks who choose to live at the bottom of avalanche chutes, on top of earthquake faults, or in the middle of a 10-year floodplain. Like me, you might have sighed at their various predicaments, thinking, Too bad, but didn't they know what was coming? Stup ...
Topics: health, West (all these topics)

Snoop Dog		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Snoop Dog Almost everyone's been embarrassed at one time or another by an over-eager dog sniffing in the wrong places. Now car owners have to worry about the "smog dog," designed to "sniff" tailpipes to detect air pollution. Formally called the AccuScan Remote Vehicle Emissions Testing System, the smog dog analyzes exhaust from cars as they pass roadside monito ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste, Virginia, West (all these topics)

Monumental Pains		24 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Monumental Pains It might not reach Arctic Refuge-proportions in its intensity, but a battle being joined today by the Bush administration over national monuments promises to be a doozy. It will encompass debates about everything from oil drilling to dirt bike-riding, and will pit Western lawmakers, landowners, and the recreational-vehicle industry -- all of whom generally want as few restrictions as possible on monument lands - ...
Topics: politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Dunces With Wolves		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dunces With Wolves The age-old conflict between wolves and livestock owners is erupting again. Last year, at least 40 farm animals in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming were killed by wolves, which were reintroduced to the American West in the mid-1990s. In response, a significant number of the predators have been killed this year as well (including all 10 wolves from the Whitehawk pack). Under a federal compr ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, ranching, West, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Home Builders, Habitat Wreckers		13 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Home Builders, Habitat Wreckers In what appears to be yet another triumph of industry over everything else, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service announced this week that it would temporarily revoke habitat protection for salmon and steelhead in 150 watersheds, river areas, bays, and estuaries in four western states. The changes, which are part of a series of recent moves that could weaken habitat and ...
Topics: fishing, rivers and watersheds, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Famous-er Potatoes		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Famous-er Potatoes Organic foods, long associated with the crunchy West Coast and the yuppie East, have made dramatic inroads into more conservative places -- so dramatic, in fact, that Idaho, home to many rabid anti-enviros, has become one of the top five states in the nation for total organic acreage. Part of the new popularity of organics may be a growing awareness of the health virtues of eating chemical- ...
Topics: East Coast, food and agriculture, Idaho, West (all these topics)

Hi Ho Sterling, Away!		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Hi Ho Sterling, Away! If the Sterling Mining Company has its way, one of the continent's largest underground mines could soon be dug beneath the Cabinet Mountains of northwestern Montana, marking the first time that large-scale mining would take place beneath a federal wilderness area. Last month, federal and state officials granted the company a permit to ope ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, US Forest Service, water pollution, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

How the West Was One With national attention elsewhere, what will happen to the hinterland?	Ed Marston, Writers on the Range	11 Oct 2001	Main Dish
By Ed Marston and Writers on the Range 11 Oct 2001 It turns out that this "new economy" of ours may be just as subject to boom and bust as was the economy based on cattle, oil, and lumber. Last month's terrorist attacks emptied Las Vegas, caused hunters to cancel trips to Idaho and Montana and silenced the phones for ski-resort reservations in Colorado. The West's environmental movement was ...
Topics: politics, West (all these topics)

How the West Was One		11 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: West
Topics: West (all these topics)

Letter of the Law Can laws be written that inspire reverence for the land?	David Mayfield	09 Feb 2001	Main Dish
As usual, Charles Wilkinson is pacing. Hands stuffed in the front pockets of his Levi's, head down, he paces the lecture hall, up one stairway and down the other, his students' heads swiveling to follow him. Charles Wilkinson, law man. Photo: Larry Harwood, University of Colorado at Boulder. But on this December morning, during the last meeting of Wilkinson's natural resources law course at t ...
Topics: Colorado, education, politics, Washington, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Lighting Las Vegas		10 Aug 2000	Daily Grist
Lighting Las Vegas The U.S. government plans to boost the development of geothermal energy systems in Western states, with the aim of having 10 percent of the West's electricity generated by the earth's heat within 20 years, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. Richardson detailed 21 partnerships between private industry and the Department of Energ ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, geothermal power, Nevada, politics, West (all these topics)

The Lion's Share It's high time people stopped shooting mountain lions	Susan J. Tweit, Writers on the Range	10 May 2000	Soapbox
V It's legal to kill a mountain lion in most Western states if it threatens your safety or the safety of your property (including livestock and pets). Williams thus had the legal right to kill that lion. But did she have the moral right? My, what a big kitty. Photo: Predator Defense Institute. One of the realities of mountain lions is that they are predators. Biologists e ...
Topics: politics, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Roadless Is More A conservative argument for Clinton's forest initiative	John Baden, Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	28 Apr 2000	Soapbox
By John Baden and Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range 28 Apr 2000 Ed Marston, publisher of High Country News, proclaims in his paper's April 10, 2000 issue: "The war between extractive interests and the environmental movement for control of the Interior West's public lands is drawing to a close. The timber era, the cattle era, the mainstem big-dam era, the wise-use era are ending. An immense landscape is going from one ...
Topics: business, national forests, politics, US Forest Service, West (all these topics)

Hot and Steamy		24 Jan 2000	Daily Grist
Hot and Steamy Geothermal power will get a boost today when U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announces a goal of generating as much as 10 percent of the West's electricity from geothermal sources by 2020. Richardson will announce $4.8 million in grants to advance research in geothermal energy, a renewable source that taps heat energy from under the Earth's surface. The Western U. ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, geothermal power, West (all these topics)

Who Dropped the Green from the GOP? A Republican berates his party for abandoning the environment	Karl Hess, Jr.	11 Jan 2000	Soapbox
Republicans are handing Democrats a green Y2K. So far, GOP presidential contenders have all but conceded the environmental issue to Al Gore and Bill Bradley. Rather than fight for the conservation mantle that was once the GOP's, they seem content to not ask and not tell when it comes to the nation's land, air, water, and wildlife. At best, Republican environmental polic ...
Topics: Colorado, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Page:1 2 3		Results 51 – 72 of 72

Stories About: West