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The Thrill of Defeat The climate bill lost out, but the environment may yet prove the winner	Amanda Griscom	05 Nov 2003	Muckraker
"We were nervous as hell," said Kevin Curtis, vice president of National Environmental Trust, describing the sentiment leading up to last Thursday's Senate vote that defeated the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, 43 to 55. "But it's a great start. This may seem to be a defeat now, but in the end, it's a victory." Lieberman stumps for his bill. Pho ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction The Bush administration is ticking off many traditionally Republican hunters and anglers with its plans to encourage logging and oil and gas drilling in natural areas throughout the Western U.S. Last week, 450 U.S. gun clubs sent a petition to the U.S. F ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, mining and drilling, Montana, national forests, outdoor recreation, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

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)

Inner Space Barbara Hurd's Entering the Stone plunges into the dark world of caves	Michelle Nijhuis	17 Sep 2003	Arts and Minds
On the fourth of July this year, I went underground -- under the Chihuahuan Desert, that is, and into the famous Carlsbad Caverns. Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico has been hosting tourists for the better part of a century, so it's got a lot of experience with showing itself off. The fabulous limestone decorations are subtly lit (a Hollywood lighting expert help ...
Topics: outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Do Good Public Comments Needed to Keep Snowmobiles Out of Yellowstone		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Public Comments Needed to Keep Snowmobiles Out of Yellowstone More than two and a half years after a phaseout was supposed to have begun, snowmobiles continue to run rampant in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, disturbing wildlife, making park workers sick from fumes, and polluting the nation's precious natural treasures. A proposed rule from the Bush a ...
Topics: air pollution, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics (all these topics)

A Chilly Reception Environmentalists Concerned About Increase in Antarctic Tourism		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Chilly Reception Environmentalists Concerned About Increase in Antarctic Tourism Not that long ago, the remote, inhospitable Antarctic would have seemed like an unlikely tourist destination. Now, though, with global tourism on the rise and far-flung places all the rage, tourism to the South Pole is growing rapidly -- and possibly at the expense of the region's environment. In the past decade, the number of visito ...
Topics: Antarctica, business, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Meet the New Mobile, Worse than the Old Mobile New Snowmobiles to Be Permitted in Yellowstone Are Dirtier Than Old Models		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Meet the New Mobile, Worse than the Old Mobile New Snowmobiles to Be Permitted in Yellowstone Are Dirtier Than Old Models A new generation of ostensibly cleaner and quieter snowmobiles turns out to be more polluting than older models, according to tests by the U.S. EPA. In a controversial Bush administration decision, the new snowmobiles were approved for use in Yellowstone and Grand Teton na ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, placemaking (all these topics)

Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse In the 50 years since Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary first scaled Mt. Everest, so much refuse piled up on the world's highest mountain that some took to calling it the world's highest garbage dump. By the early 1990s, an estimated 50 tons of metal, glass, and plastic, including many hundreds of abandoned oxygen canisters, had been lef ...
Topics: Nepal, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Beehive State Stung		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Beehive State Stung Outdoor recreation retailers are threatening to pull two trade shows out of Utah because they don't like Gov. Mike Leavitt's (R) efforts to curtail wilderness designations in the state. With $24 million in trade-show-generated revenue at stake, a worried Leavitt has agreed to meet with outdoor industry leaders to discuss the matter. "The governor is very willing to start talking abou ...
Topics: business, outdoor recreation, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Howell of Protest		13 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Howell of Protest Under federal regulations, private developers have to pay market rates to lease land bordering the 456 lakes owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But last month, Ronald Howell signed a 50-year rent-free lease on 280 along Oklahoma's Skiatook Lake, which is owned by the corps, to build a $10 million resort, complete with marina and golf course. What gives? It s ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Oklahoma, outdoor recreation, political groups (all these topics)

When Nature Emails		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When Nature Emails Ah, wilderness -- the chirping of birds, the burbling of creeks, the melodic chime announcing that new mail has just arrived in your inbox. Yep, that's right -- or it will be if the Colorado Department of Natural Resources has its way. In an effort to boost revenue in the middle of a massive budget shortfall, the DNR plans to make electrical outlets an ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Department of Natural Resources, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Chutes and Bladders		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Chutes and Bladders Kids who romp around on wooden structures in playgrounds could face a higher risk of contracting lung or bladder cancer than those who don't come into contact with the equipment, the head of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Friday. Nearly all wooden playground equipment in the U.S. has been treated with the pesticide chromated copper arsenate, which can leave arsenic residue on k ...
Topics: health, outdoor recreation, toxics (all these topics)

Sea-cow Tipping		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sea-cow Tipping Manatees were killed in record numbers by collisions with watercraft in Florida in 2002, according to the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The commission found that 95 manatees were killed by watercraft last year, or 14 more than in 2001. By contrast, overall manatee deaths in the state fell, from 325 in 2001 to 305 in 2002. The findings are likely to add fue ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, placemaking (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
On the Roadless Again In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has reinstated a Clinton administration rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forests from logging, mining, and construction. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco lifted an injunction against the roadless rule yesterday, simultaneously affirming its legal basis and criticizing a lower court fo ...
Topics: logging, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

No Mobiles		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
No Mobiles Environmentalists took the National Park Service to court yesterday over ongoing delays in implementing a ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. In 2000, the agency approved a plan that would have limited the number of snowmobiles in the parks to under 500 by this winter and mandated that drivers be accompanied by park guides. But the agency ...
Topics: Bluewater Network, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Keep the Pedal From the Metal		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Keep the Pedal From the Metal The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is barring off-road enthusiasts from one of their favorite playgrounds in Utah -- but this time, it's to safeguard their own health, not that of the environment. At Manning Canyon, a recreation area near Salt Lake City, the soil is contaminated with arsenic, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals f ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, toxics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Come on In, the Water's Fine		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Come on In, the Water's Fine Ecologists and sport-fishing fans have succeeded in blocking a decree by the Mexican government that would have increased commercial shark fishing and threatened other fish stocks. Mexico currently requires shark vessels to stay 50 miles offshore; the new rule would have allowed them to come within a half-mile of the coast, dragging mile-wide nets and six-mile ...
Topics: Mexico, outdoor recreation, politics, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Reid It and Weep		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Reid It and Weep The Bush administration distorted a report to the U.S. EPA by deleting the views of government experts who sought to curb emissions from snowmobiles, according to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Reid has released documents (which he says he obtained from an anonymous whistleblower) showing that the Interior Department removed pro-emissions-restrictions comments from a government ...
Topics: air pollution, Harry Reid, outdoor recreation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Snow News Is Mixed News		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Snow News Is Mixed News Beating a court-ordered deadline by only a few hours, the Bush administration imposed new air-pollution regulations last Friday that will limit emissions from snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) for the first time. When the rules are in full force after 2012, they will eliminate more than 2 million tons of pollution per year, the equivalent to taking 32 million cars (that's 15 per ...
Topics: air pollution, outdoor recreation, politics (all these topics)

East of Eden		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
East of Eden After years of foreign control, East Timor became the world's newest nation this week. Now the country must rise from the ashes wrought by years of brutal domination by Indonesia -- and it hopes to do so in part by capitalizing on its abundant natural beauty to attract eco-tourists. Currently, East Timor is the poorest country in Asia, but revenue from scuba diving, mountain trekking, biking, ...
Topics: business, East Timor, outdoor recreation, travel (all these topics)

Air Squawl-ity		30 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Air Squawl-ity We here at Grist have long since lost track of the score in the face-off between the snowmobile industry and people who like to be able to breathe in national parks, but at any rate, the latter earned a point yesterday when the U.S. EPA issued a report calling for a complete ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Reiterating its position of three years ago ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, US EPA (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Ski Bums		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski Bums At anywhere from $40 to $70 a pop for lift tickets, downhill skiing is one of the country's priciest sports -- yet many ski resorts pay next to nothing for the federal land on which they operate. On average, resorts located on national forests fork over just 2 percent of their revenue to use the lands; that's like a person who earns $50,000 a year paying $80 per month in rent. Some people say the arrangeme ...
Topics: business, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Dune Bugging		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Dune Bugging Almost 50,000 acres of dunes in California's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area would be re-opened to off-road vehicles (ORVs) under a Bureau of Land Management proposal. The area has been off-limits to the vehicles since November of 2000, when the BLM, ORV groups, and environmentalists negotiated a settlement that closed the area to protect endangered speci ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, California, outdoor recreation, placemaking, wilderness (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)

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