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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Biscuit Gets No Gravy Biscuit Fire Salvage-Logging Plan Knocked by EPA		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: logging, Oregon, US EPA, US Forest Service, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Anglers Not Obtuse Dismayed by Enviro Policies, Some Anglers and Fishers Turn Against Bush		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Anglers Not Obtuse Dismayed by Enviro Policies, Some Anglers and Fishers Turn Against Bush Put President Bush in waders or camouflage and, what with his cowboy hat and rugged Western looks, he could easily grace the cover of Field &amp Stream. Yet the hunt-and-fish crowd, normally a loyal constituency of the Republican Party, is increasingly unhappy with the commander in chief. The president's efforts to roll back ...
Topics: politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Air Raid Alaska Gives Nod to Aerial Pesticide Spraying		14 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Air Raid Alaska Gives Nod to Aerial Pesticide Spraying In a blow to environmentalists, Alaska has approved controversial regulations governing aerial pesticide spraying, set to go into effect at the end of the month. The new regulations establish a 35-foot "pesticide-free zone" around water bodies, as well as a secondary buffer zone designed to prevent chemicals from drifting or leaching into the land ...
Topics: Alaska, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities Cities around the world could save billions of dollars on water-treatment plants if they dedicated resources to protecting nearby forests, which naturally filter and purify drinking water, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank. Researchers came to this conclusion after s ...
Topics: New York, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Back to the Yellowstone Age		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Back to the Yellowstone Age The Bush administration has asked the United Nations to remove Yellowstone National Park from a list of endangered World Heritage sites. "Yellowstone is no longer in danger," wrote the Interior Department's Paul Hoffman in a letter to the World Heritage Committee. There's just one snag: The park staff disagree with Hoffman, saying Yello ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, national parks, politics, water pollution, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Gutter Talk		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ...
Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Are They Rocky Mountain High?		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Are They Rocky Mountain High? Another one from the Believe-It-Or-Not Department: Colorado officials want to increase clear-cutting to help solve the state's drought problem. Removing trees would allow more snow to fall to the ground, where it would run off into streams in the spring, providing enough new water to supply as many as a million families, says Kent Holsinger, the top water official at ...
Topics: Colorado, logging, politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Just Deserts		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Just Deserts A controversial plan to transform a tract of the Mojave Desert into a giant water-storage facility was killed yesterday by California's Metropolitan Water District. First presented in 1997 by Keith Brackpool, an advisor and leading financial backer to Gov. Gray Davis (D), the $150 million project would have entailed the construction of a 35-mile pipeline between the MWD's Colorado River aqueduct and the ...
Topics: California, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Dry Upheaval		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dry Upheaval As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation's water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation and other degradation of fragile high mountain ecosystems, according to Carlos Castano, director of the country's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies. The pa ...
Topics: Colombia, deforestation, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Shanty Shanty Shanty		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ...
Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (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)

Thirty-three	Josh Sevin	19 Oct 1999	Counter Culture
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Topics: water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

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