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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)

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)

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)

Live Tree or Die		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Live Tree or Die In what will be one of the largest nonprofit land purchases in New England history, the federal and New Hampshire governments, the Trust for Public Land, and the Nature Conservancy are poised to buy 171,500 acres of land along the New Hampshire-Canada border from the International ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, logging, Nature Conservancy, New England, New Hampshire, Northeast, toxics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Strip-Trees	Suzy Becker	22 Jan 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living, wilderness (all these topics)

Long Live King County		17 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Long Live King County How far would you go to stop urban sprawl? That's the question of the hour in King County, Wash., where a private anti-sprawl proposal is pushing the conservation envelope on several fronts. At issue is a proposed $185 million purchase of second-and third-growth forest just east of Seattle. The land purchase by the Evergreen Forest Trust would ...
Topics: Internal Revenue Service, land stewardship, logging, placemaking, Washington, 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)

Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Its Bark Is Worse, and That Bites Last month, Mexican officials learned their country is losing its forests at a rate of nearly 3 million acres a year, or nearly twice the clip previously thought; now, they're blaming the heavy deforestation on impoverished indigenous farmers in Chiapas, who slash and burn the jungle to scrape out their meager living. The long history of m ...
Topics: deforestation, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, rainforests, wilderness (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)

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)

We've Got Mail!		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

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

Steal These Books A review of Affluenza and Red	Elizabeth Grossman	14 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
There's been a tendency since Sept. 11 to reconsider everything in light of that horrific tragedy. I've tried to resist that inclination, but I had read both Affluenza and Red before that day and could not ignore the way the attacks highlighted the importance of the books' divergent subject matters: our desire for the good life, which has made us the greatest consumers on earth; and the need to protect the wild pla ...
Topics: green living, Southwest, United States, 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)

Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back Indonesia said this week that it would tighten its forestry laws to rein in illegal logging. Under the new rules, companies will lose their licenses to log in 2003 unless they can prove they are managing forests sustainably. Enviros cheered the change, though it remains to be seen just how the theory will tr ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, international government agencies, logging, rainforests, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Speedy Gone-zales		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Speedy Gone-zales Mexico is losing forests at almost twice the rate previously thought, the country's Environment Ministry announced yesterday. A new multi-agency study of satellite images taken from 1993 and 2000 found that average forest loss in that time was about 2.78 million acres a year, the world's second-highest deforestation ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Free-range Checking		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Free-range Checking The Sante Fe group Forest Guardians is hoping to raise $1 million to boot cattle from thousands of state-owned acres in Arizona and New Mexico. In late November, the group won a case before Arizona's Supreme Court that ended a state policy of allowing only ranchers to lease state school trust land, which includes about 8.3 million ...
Topics: Arizona, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, New Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Oh Maw Gracious!		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Oh Maw Gracious! More than 31 million acres of forest in the southern United States will disappear into the maw of urban development in the next four decades, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service in collaboration with other federal agencies. Wildlife and water and air quality will suffer as trees make way for sprawling growth and timber harvests increase by half, t ...
Topics: logging, placemaking, South, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Hill and Dale		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Hill and Dale U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth upheld a Clinton-era plan on Friday that would increase protection for much of California's Sierra Nevada, although he also called for a review of how the plan would affect fire control in the area and whether it would conflict with a congressionally approved management scheme. The plan, which was the result of a ...
Topics: California, Department of Agriculture, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Soothing the Savage Breasts		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Soothing the Savage Breasts We've been derelict in our duties: Only now are we telling you that the largest known environmental striptease in the history of the world took place last Friday. Nine bare-breasted women briefly halted logging near Northern California's Headwaters Forest, at a stand of second-growth redwood trees that didn't make it into the 1999 forest protection dea ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Cut That Out		29 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Cut That Out California's largest timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, will shift its logging practices from selective thinning to clear-cutting on 70 percent of the 1.5 million acres it owns in the state. Company representatives say the clear-cutting will take place along ridgelines or roads, allowing firefighters better access to control wildfires. But environmentalists say cl ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, logging, 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)

Moscowl		10 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Moscowl Not much of the northern forest in the European portion of Russia is still standing and many of the trees that haven't been felled are in jeopardy, according to a report released by Greenpeace Russia and Global Forest Watch. Russian researchers who spent five years mapping the forest for the report say that the largest stretches of intact forest aren't protected from logging. In total, ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Russia, wilderness (all these topics)

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