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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)

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)

The Promised Land Managers		07 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Promised Land Managers In a victory for environmentalists, Israel's Supreme Court ruled last week that the Jewish National Fund, well known around the world for its tree-planting efforts in Israel, must now submit its forestry plans for public review. The ruling came on a petition filed by the Israel Union for Environmental Defense. The enviro group charged that the fund has man ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Israel, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Fees: 'Fie,' Foes Fume		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Fees: "Fie," Foes Fume Organizers say more than 200 grassroots groups have sprung up across the U.S. to protest fees for using federal lands. In 1996, Congress launched a pilot program to allow certain national forests, refuges, and other federal lands to begin charging fees for access, parking, and campsites. Congress this year is deciding whether to extend and expand the program. Federal officials say they need th ...
Topics: outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

15 Is Enough		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
15 Is Enough The U.N. Environment Programme says forest-protection efforts worldwide should focus on just 15 countries that contain more than 80 percent of the most-intact forests left. UNEP says 88 percent of the targeted forests face little pressure from human activities. The 15 countries are Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Papua-New Guinea, Peru, ...
Topics: United Nations, 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)

Smoke on the Water, Fire on the Hill		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Smoke on the Water, Fire on the Hill Four firefighters may have lost their lives last month in Washington state because of the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) charged yesterday. McInnis, chair of the House Resources forests subcommittee, cited unnamed sources who said that fire crews delayed helicopter water drops for three hours or more while dispatchers determined whether water could be ...
Topics: US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round		01 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Flat-bottomed Lizards, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'round The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton to reconsider her decision not to list the flat-tailed horned lizard as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Norton argued that the lizard has plenty of public land on which to live in southwestern Arizona ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Department of Interior, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Dah-ling I Love You, Don't Give My Parks Avenues		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dah-ling I Love You, Don't Give My Parks Avenues The U.S. National Park Service should stop worrying so much about pleasing visitors and instead focus on protecting natural resources, says an advisory panel. In its report, which is slated to be made public tomorrow, the National Park System Advisory Board says that the agency should "[a]dopt the conservation of biodiversity as a core p ...
Topics: land stewardship, national parks, outdoor recreation, wilderness (all these topics)

Infamous Potatoes		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Infamous Potatoes In keeping with her pattern of deferring to the positions of elected officials in the West, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has recommended that the U.S. Justice Department not appeal a ruling by the Idaho Supreme Court that denies water rights for a federal wildlife refuge on the Snake River. In the past, the U.S. has almost always defended its water rights to protect wildlife ...
Topics: green living, Idaho, Snake River, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Owl and the Pussycat		20 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Owl and the Pussycat A single spotted owl roosting in an old-growth tree in British Columbia won a reprieve yesterday when a British Columbia Supreme Court judge overturned permits given to the Cattermole Timber company to log the area where the tree stands. Enviros believe the province's forestry ministry gave short shrift to a warning from the environment ministry that the area is owl habitat. Their c ...
Topics: British Columbia, logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Another One Bites the Dust China's dust bowl is growing at an alarming rate	Lester R. Brown	29 May 2001	Main Dish
Last month, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laboratory in Boulder, Colo., reported that a huge dust storm from northern China had reached the U.S. "blanketing areas from Canada to Arizona with a layer of dust." They reported that along the foothills of the Rockies, the mountains were obscured by the dust from China. This dust storm did not come ...
Topics: China, deforestation, land degradation, 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)

Monica Who?	Suzy Becker	30 Jan 2001	Ha.

Topics: politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Easement Does It Maine woods emerge as ground zero for a grand land conservation experiment	Wayne Curtis	08 Jan 2001	Main Dish
Try this little-known fact on for size: Approximately one-quarter of New England -- a region first settled four centuries ago -- is almost entirely undeveloped. Never mind images of East Coast overcrowding and sprawl; travel far enough north and east and you can drive for hours and see no Main Streets, no local fire departments, no permanent dwellings, no Wal-Marts. Just forest ...
Topics: Maine, wilderness (all these topics)

I Fought the Law and the Law Won How can we make environmental laws work better?	Donella H. Meadows	18 Sep 2000	Global Citizen
Now that I've suffered under one firsthand, I can understand why people hate environmental laws. On a map of our farm filed away at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is a fateful dot. It stands for an endangered Siberian Chive, observed by someone decades ago. This dot popped up when we applied under Vermont's Act 250, one of the best land use laws of the nation, to build 2 ...
Topics: Vermont, wilderness (all these topics)

Battle of the Lands The Bureau of Land Management is due for a shake-up	Scott Groene, Writers on the Range	01 Sep 2000	Soapbox
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls more land than any other agency in the world. Its 265 million acres in the American West cover an area greater in size than the entire National Forest system plus the state of Wyoming. You too should care about the joshua tree. Photo: BLM. The agency has a long history of rolling over to ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Mr. Green Beans He's all abuzz about socially responsible coffee	Lisa Jones	11 Aug 2000	Main Dish
I am in the local coffee shop in Paonia, Colo., drinking a cup of joe and pleasantly anticipating its effects on my brain. My companion, Eli Wolcott, isn't drinking a drop. He doesn't ask what coffee can do for him; he asks what he can do for coffee. Eli Wolcott (the mug's just a prop). Photo: Lisa Jones. Specifically, Eli wonders whether he can help coffee workers in the remote hills of southern Mexico im ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

To Protect and Conserve Western lawmakers in Washington need to get with the times	Pat Williams, Writers on the Range	08 Aug 2000	Soapbox
Historians looking back on the turn of the millennium may well call it the golden age of conservation. In recent years, we have witnessed bold national efforts to protect the last wild places of the U.S. Western politicians could move mountains. Many of these lands are in the West, a place that itself is going through a tremendous transition from an extractive cult ...
Topics: legislation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		30 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 30 Jun 2000 LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. Today I'm writing from my aunt Beth and uncle Chris's house in Illinois, where they li ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Art of Monument Making, with Julia Child	Suzy Becker	30 Jun 2000	Ha.

Topics: politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Monumental Momentum	Ben White	30 Jun 2000	Muckraker
The Grand Canyon just got grander. Photo: Council on Environmental Quality. President Clinton has been on a national monument tear of late, setting aside eight areas encompassing more than 1 million acres since January. National monument status gives the federal government increased authority to prevent development and limit logging and other commercial and recreational activity on lands considered particularly sensitive or of great historic value. ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		29 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 29 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Two weeks ago today began the craziness on Capitol Hill. Alex, Eric, and I rushed from o ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeff Barrie, documentary filmmaker		28 Jun 2000	Dispatches
Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 28 Jun 2000 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. I've been waiting for this day for nearly five months. This morning I slept until noon. ...
Topics: animal welfare, bikes, Dispatches, education, energy efficiency, hybrids, oil, politics, Prius, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

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