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Cattle Prod
Why we need to push livestock off public lands |
Debra Donahue, Writers on the Range |
25 Feb 2000 |
Soapbox |
| Whatever might be said of the arid West, it "ain't no cow country." That's what Henry Fonda, playing Wyatt Earp, said of Arizona in John Ford's 1946 film My Darling Clementine. That's also the bottom line of a book I've written, The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity. In it, I conclude that where mean annual precipitati ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, politics, ranching, United States, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Sierra Club Can't Take a Leak
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Ben White |
12 Jan 2000 |
Muckraker |
| A memo circulated recently around the Sierra Club's offices highlighted the "Top Ten" reasons the group should not endorse Vice Pres. Al Gore. The memo, written by Sierra Club board member Michael Dorsey and unearthed by the Washington Times last week, says: "Does Vice President Gore really care about nature? Does he care about protecting people from hazardous waste and toxic pollution? Does he care about human life and the fu ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, elections, Greenpeace, land stewardship, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, South, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Picture Bliss
Sherry Bosse reviews Fighting for the Forest by Gloria Rand, the WWF's Living Planet by Frans Lanting, et. al, Borneo Rain Forest by Mattias Klum, and Anthology for the Earth by Judy Allen |
Sherry Bosse |
20 Dec 1999 |
Arts and Minds |
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| Topics: green living, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics) |
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In Other Words ...
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Donella H. Meadows |
20 Dec 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| A while ago I wrote a column full of solemn statements from august scientists and other wise persons, warning that we are trashing our planet at a sickening pace. The august persons didn't say "trashing" or "sickening." They spoke of "adverse consequences" and "significant geopolitical risk." An Alert Reader (to steal a phrase from Dave Barry), a retired professor of French named Chuck Ferguson, who s ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sowing Their Wild Votes
Russ Feingold plants seeds in the Senate for more wilderness |
Elizabeth Grossman |
02 Nov 1999 |
Main Dish |
| It was a beautiful night spent sitting by a waterfall in the southern Utah wilderness that convinced Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) of the need for more discussion in the Senate about wilderness and public lands issues. "I've had the good fortune to sea kayak the Apostle Islands, to canoe the Boundary Waters, and to hike in Utah wilderness," says Feingold in a phone inter ... |
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| Topics: politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Twenty
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Josh Sevin |
27 Oct 1999 |
Counter Culture |
| percentage of all endangered and threatened species in the U.S. that are harmed by grazing number of plant species that provide 90 percent of the world's food supply percent by which wind power production has grown per year since 1990 percentage of Earth's original forests that remain pristine and undisturbed percent increase since 1945 in the agricultural harvest lost to pesticides percentage of wood used in building a new home that could be saved by framing mor ... |
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| Topics: energy, placemaking, solid waste treatment and disposal, wilderness, wind power (all these topics) |
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Thirty-three
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Josh Sevin |
19 Oct 1999 |
Counter Culture |
| percent by which energy-efficient windows can cut cooling and heating bills percentage of the world's population living in countries experiencing moderate to high water stress percentage of toxic water pollution caused by personal vehicle use percentage of the world's energy consumed by developing nations percentage of all raw materials used in the U.S. that go toward the production of meats, dairy products, and eggs percentage of the world's remaining temp ... |
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| Topics: water pollution, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation
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08 Oct 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 08 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. As the week draws to a close and I prepare for my next trip (to Berlin, Sassenberg, and Utrecht), I look back on the past few days and hope that I have given you a good picture of what life is like as a circuit rider. Remember, of course, that there are many modes for circuit riding, but w ... |
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| Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation
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07 Oct 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 07 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Today I will write about Haida Gwaii, after yesterday's photo teaser. First, what is it? The islands now popularly called Haida Gwaii (the traditional name given them by the Haida people) have long been shown on maps as the Queen Charlotte Islands. They form an arrowhead-shaped landmass ... |
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| Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation
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06 Oct 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 06 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Today's inbox is not so bad. Only 23 email messages came in overnight. Mostly junk, a few important things from the west coast, and some messages from people working at home at night. A photo from a recent business trip to the Haida Gwaii islands off the northwest coast of British Colu ... |
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| Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation
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05 Oct 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 05 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) suffered from some of the same technical troubles that affect many small nonprofit organizations -- old equipment and no staff expertise to upgrade its system. Based in the Ben & Jerry's headquarters (can you say "Free ice cream ... |
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| Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sean O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation
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04 Oct 1999 |
Dispatches |
| Sean T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a circuit rider for the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 04 Oct 1999 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. People laugh when I tell them my job title is "circuit rider." It sounds funny, but I love it. How many people have a job title that is a pun, much less a job that requires the holder to have technical skills, an interest in promoting the health of our planet, and a willingness ... |
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| Topics: David Suzuki, Dispatches, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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A Godsend for Enviros?
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Ben White |
26 Aug 1999 |
Muckraker |
| It's all but official. Hollywood actor Warren Beatty may have hedged his bets somewhat in a New York Times op-ed last Sunday, but he already has a presidential campaign website, which is this column's fin de siècle measure of candidatehood, be it virtual or actual. Leaving aside the question of why certain individuals with no electoral experience (Ross Perot, Steve Forbes, et al.) feel qualified to begin their political careers by vaulting to th ... |
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| Topics: elections, Massachusetts, Muckraker, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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The Forest Is More than a Collection of Trees
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Donella H. Meadows |
12 Jul 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| About 40 years ago, a young Dartmouth biology professor named Herb Bormann took a tomato plant, gently pulled its roots apart into two bunches, and planted it in two pots, one clump of roots in each pot. He watered both pots until the plant got established. Then he watered only one pot. The tomato did fine. Photo by David Parsons, NREL/PIX. Then he repeated the experiment many times with the addition of a second plan ... |
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| Topics: wilderness (all these topics) |
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This Park Is a Hot Issue
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18 May 1999 |
Daily Grist |
| This Park Is a Hot Issue Some 800 acres of tallgrass prairie and wetlands at the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant outside Denver will be set aside as a wildlife preserve, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. The new Rock Creek Reserve, home to a number of endangered species, was praised by local residents. Richardson also announced that the first shipments of transuranic waste from ... |
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| Topics: Bill Richardson, Colorado, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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