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Fire Walk With Me		10 May 2002	Daily Grist
Fire Walk With Me Fires being deliberately set all across Africa are having a dire effect on the continent's ecosystems, a wildlife expert warned during a recent U.N. Environment Programme conference on African mountains. Many different groups are responsible for setting the fires, said Kenya Wildlife Service warden Bongo Woodley. These include arsonists hoping the government will give them the scorched land; squatters seeking ...
Topics: Africa, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Strange Treefellows		06 May 2002	Daily Grist
Strange Treefellows Conservationists are probably more closely identified with the struggle to save forests from logging than with any other environmental battle, as the label "tree hugger" suggests. So it was a case of strange bedfellows when enviros and industry representatives met late last month at the Forest Leadership Forum to discuss ways to better protect the world's remaining forests. More than 1,000 people from ...
Topics: green living, wilderness (all these topics)

Enron's End Run		06 May 2002	Daily Grist
Enron's End Run Here's another victim of Enron: the Chiquitano Dry Tropical Forest, one of the two most valuable forests in Latin America and one of the 200 most endangered eco-regions in the world, according to the World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund, respectively. The forest was the largest remaining undeveloped land of its kind in South America -- until Enron built a 390-mile natural gas pipeline directly through ...
Topics: South America, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Who, Moi?		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Who, Moi? Responding to criticism that his government has overseen the widespread destruction of forests, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi announced yesterday a plan to strictly enforce bans on timber cutting. Moi also announced that he would seek support from the U.N. Development Programme for a campaign to plant trees. Sounds good, but Moi has not historically been a friend to environmentalists, who have acc ...
Topics: Kenya, land stewardship, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Quick Draw, McGraw		25 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Quick Draw, McGraw A tiff has broken out between the Department of Interior and the U.S. EPA over proposed gas drilling in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The energy industry would like to drill more than 39,000 new wells in the area, a plan enthusiastically backed by the Bush administration, especially in the wake of its defeat over oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildli ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, US EPA, wilderness, Wyoming (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)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, 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)

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)

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)

Quick Study		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Quick Study One week after a study by the U.S. Geological Survey showed that oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could harm caribou, the agency has completed another study claiming that the drilling scenarios most likely to be approved by Congress would not affect the species. The two-page report was commissioned by Interior Secretary Gale Norton shortly after the release of the ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, US Geological Survey, wilderness, wildlife (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)

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)

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)

Doe, Oh Dear!		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Doe, Oh Dear! In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the n ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Missouri, pollution and waste, toxics, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Little Drummer Buoy		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Little Drummer Buoy For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don't have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; ...
Topics: California, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shore: Enough		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shore: Enough An innovative if controversial bill could protect offshore waters in California from oil drilling by allowing oil companies to swap drilling claims in California for others in the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, introduced yesterday by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and John Breaux (D-La.), would convert 40 offshore tra ...
Topics: California, Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, oceans, wilderness (all these topics)

Going Whole Hog for Conservation		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Going Whole Hog for Conservation In welcome news for environmentalists, the U.S. Senate approved a farm bill yesterday that would double spending for conservation programs to $22 billion over the next decade. If it becomes law, the farm bill -- which also includes provisions to clean up urban drinking water, protect forests from urban sprawl, and conserve wildlife habitat -- would ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, placemaking, population, 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)

What Sumatra You?		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
What Sumatra You? The Tesso Nilo forest on Sumatra, Indonesia, contains more biological diversity than the Amazon. It is home to elephants, tigers, gibbons, and tapirs, and a recent survey conducted by scientists from the World Wildlife Fund found as many as 218 vascular plant species in just 0.05 acres. But the entire forest could disappear in less than eight yea ...
Topics: G8, Indonesia, logging, Sumatra, Switzerland, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Red Rose		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, deforestation, education, food and agriculture, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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