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Burned		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Burned In addition to scorching millions of acres of habitat and killing wildlife, the fires that have raged throughout the western U.S. this summer have taken another toll on the environment -- a financial one. The federal government expects to spend more than $1.5 billion battling wildfires this year, and millions of those dollars will come from sources that would otherwise be used to pa ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

To Summit Up		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Summit Up A global report card issued by the United Nations just two weeks before an international environmental summit has given low marks to the world's ecological condition. Among the report's more shocking findings: Three million people die annually from air pollution, while more than 1 billion people -- a sixth of the world's population -- lack access to safe drinking water. The report ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Canyon of Worms		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canyon of Worms The Bush administration announced yesterday that energy companies will be allowed to expand oil and gas exploration beyond the boundaries of their leases at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Durango, Colo. The announcement marks the first time exploration has been permitted outside leased areas at a monument. Already, about 85 percent of the 164,0 ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Miner Threat		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Miner Threat The Bush administration canceled yesterday a two-year ban on new mining claims in roughly 1.2 million acres in and around southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest. The ban was imposed by the Clinton administration in response to lobbying efforts by conservationists, who wanted the area declared a national monument. Instead, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt imposed the moratorium to a ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Oregon, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Something Not Wild		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Something Not Wild The U.S. Forest Service yesterday came out against adding any new wilderness areas to southeastern Alaska's 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest. The recommendation was a response to a ruling by U.S. District Judge James Singleton, who sided with environmentalists last year in ordering the Forest Service to determine if there were parts of the temperate rain forest that Congress could set aside ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, wilderness (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)

Is That a Lawmaker in Your Pocket, or ... ? A breakdown of the Arctic Refuge vote in the Senate		18 Apr 2002	Muckraker
The Senate today effectively voted down Amendment 3132, which would have allowed oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "Effectively," because the issue never actually came up for debate: The Democrats filibustered, and drilling advocates fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to break the blocking tactic and force passage of the measure. All but five Dem ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, Muckraker, oil, politics, US House of Representatives, wilderness (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)

The Letter of the Log		16 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Letter of the Log More than 220 prominent scientists sent a letter to President Bush today calling for an end to logging on federally owned lands. The scientists, including E.O. Wilson, argued that the economic value of timber from public lands was insignificant compared to the environmental damage from logging, and that taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize timber harvests. The letter, a project of th ...
Topics: logging, politics, Sierra Club, wilderness (all these topics)

Lies, Lies, and Videotape		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lies, Lies, and Videotape A picture is worth a thousand words: So reasoned Interior Secretary Gale Norton when she mailed copies of a videotape of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to major television stations and encouraged news producers to use the footage in their coverage of the debate over drilling. (In contrast to videos of the Arctic Refuge produced by conservat ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Ed Markey, energy, oil, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Litter of the Law		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Litter of the Law The Chicago-based Oil-Dri Corporation, which, as the maker of Cat's Pride, is the world's largest kitty litter company, wants to dig an open-pit clay mine on public land outside of Reno, Nev. But county commissioners have effectively thwarted that plan by refusing to issue a permit to operate a processing plant for the cat litter on nearby private property. The controversy has ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, Nevada, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Shrimp Fried		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shrimp Fried Under pressure from the Bush administration, a federal judge yesterday revoked the protected status of several hundred thousand acres of Southern California land considered essential for the survival of two imperiled species. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-a ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Joltin' Joe		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Mess Transit		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Mess Transit As perhaps the most famous national park in the United States, the Grand Canyon occupies an equally vast space in our national psyche as in our national landscape. Unfortunately, it is also our national bottleneck. Each year, 5 million people flock to the park, leaving 6,000 cars to battle for 2,400 parking spaces every day during the summer. Park officials have recognized the probl ...
Topics: Arizona, national parks, placemaking, politics, wilderness (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)

Rey of Sunshine		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Rey of Sunshine A controversial Bush administration plan to log trees harmed in fires that raged in the Bitterroot National Forest in 2000 was halted yesterday by a federal judge in Montana. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy also excoriated Mark Rey, natural resources and environment undersecretary for the Agriculture Department, for bypassing a 45-day public appe ...
Topics: business, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

We've Got Mail!		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Afghanistan, land degradation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Ranger Rearranger		26 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Ranger Rearranger Federal wildlife agents and rangers -- the folks who protect U.S. public lands from poaching, endangered species smuggling, illegal off-road activity, and other no-nos -- were in short supply long before Sept. 11. But now their ranks are even thinner, after scores of agents were re-assigned to serve as sky marshals or guard federal buildings in the nation's capital. The shift has been largely clandesti ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Ninth Circuit of Hell		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Ninth Circuit of Hell Environmentalists asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday to lift an injunction against a rule that seeks to ban logging and road-building on one-third of national forest lands. The rule, which was enacted by former President Clinton and would apply to 58.5 million acres of federal forests, was appealed by the state of Idaho and special interest groups, and subsequently blocked by a ...
Topics: Idaho, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Precedent of the United States		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Precedent of the United States A federal judge dismissed an effort by the timber industry and users of off-road vehicles (ORVs) to overturn former President Clinton's order to designate 328,000 acres of federal land in California's Sierra Nevada as Giant Sequoia National Monument. The plaintiffs challenged the 1906 Antiquities A ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, mining and drilling, outdoor recreation, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Spreading Like Wildfire		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Spreading Like Wildfire The Bush administration and governors from Western states agreed yesterday to the outlines of a 10-year plan to reduce the risk of wildfire, but postponed until next spring discussion on how the plan would be implemented. In the past, fire authorities focused on suppressing fires that had already begun. The new plan focuses on better collaboration among federal, state, and local governm ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (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)

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