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Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is leading an improbable coalition of enviros, ranchers, hunters, and property-rights activists in a fight against the Bush administration's plans to drill for natural gas in the Otero Mesa area of New Me ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Interior, elections, energy, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Snowmobefuddlement Judge Issues Yet Another Reversal of Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snowmobefuddlement Judge Issues Yet Another Reversal of Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban An already-confusing winter for tourists and tour operators in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks got more muddled yesterday, when a federal judge overturned severe restrictions on snowmobiling in the parks. For those of you keeping score at home, a quick rundown of the ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, environmental justice, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: ... climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sweet Chile O' Mine Greenpeace Activist in Chile Tells It Like She Sees It		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, dams, education, energy, Greenpeace, hydropower, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, South America, wilderness (all these topics)

Meat-Up Low-Carb Diets Have High Impact on Environment		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting A growing cadre of critics charge the U.S. Forest Service with fighting too many fires, saying that the cost -- in money, lives, and ecological damage -- is too high. As logging in national forests has declined by 80 percent over the last decade, fighting fires has become the agency's pr ...
Topics: logging, national forests, pollution and waste, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

The Thinners Have Much More Fun Forest Service to Triple Sierra Nevada Logging		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Thinners Have Much More Fun Forest Service to Triple Sierra Nevada Logging Citing the need to prevent catastrophic forest fires like the ones that plagued Southern California last year, on Thursday the U.S. Forest Service announced a plan to spend $50 million a year to thin forests in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The plan would allow logging of 330 million board-feet of g ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Rubbers? Ducky! Condom Factory in Brazil to Fight AIDS, Deforestation		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Rubbers? Ducky! Condom Factory in Brazil to Fight AIDS, Deforestation Giving new meaning to the promise of "protection," a new condom factory in northwest Brazil is expected to not only fight the spread of AIDS in that country (one of the world's hardest-hit by the disease) but also to slow the destruction of native old-growth forests. The factory -- which aims to produce 200 million condoms a year by 2006, helping t ...
Topics: Brazil, business, wilderness (all these topics)

Hasta La Vista, Fishies Schwarzenegger Cuts Moola for California Marine Reserves Plan		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Hasta La Vista, Fishies Schwarzenegger Cuts Moola for California Marine Reserves Plan In a boon for headline-writers who still haven't exhausted their Terminator puns, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has put an indefinite hold on planning for a more than 1,000-mile-long necklace of no-fishing marine reserves along the California coast -- mandated by a 1999 state law ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, marine life, oceans, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says Orangutans may have just two decades left if current trends continue, the World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday. One of the four great ape species, orangutans are rapidly disappearing from their only remaining native habitat on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. Populations ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, logging, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass The U.S. Forest Service plans to cancel 20 timber sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- not because it's dedicated to preserving old growth in the vast rainforest, but because the sales were sure to be money-losers for logging companies. Enviros are feeling vindicated by the development; they say it proves ...
Topics: Alaska, business, logging, politics, rainforests, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Endless Summer Climate Scientists Predict More Hot Summers for Europe		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Endless Summer Climate Scientists Predict More Hot Summers for Europe Thanks to global warming, summer heat waves like the one that killed close to 20,000 people in Europe in 2003 could recur up to once every two years by the end of the century. So claims a study conducted by a group of scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and published in the lat ...
Topics: climate, European Union, food and agriculture, green living, health, wilderness (all these topics)

The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest Doing their part for holiday spirit, the Bush administration announced just two days before Christmas that it is exempting Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- America's largest, and a longtime environmental battleground -- from a controversial Clinton-era ban on development in roadless areas o ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, logging, marine life, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
NPR: One Thing Considered Pristine Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Opened to Oil Drilling Try as it might, the Bush administration hasn't been able to get its hands on oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Perhaps to make itself feel better, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is forging ahead with plans to permit aggressive oil drilling in large swaths of ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness, wildlife (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)

Through Sick and Thin 'Healthy Forests' Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Through Sick and Thin "Healthy Forests" Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed President Bush signed his "Healthy Forests" initiative into law yesterday, a move that, never mind the name, left many environmentalists feeling sick. The Bush administration says the law will prevent fires by increasing the amount of l ...
Topics: logging, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Great Green North Massive Agreement Aims to Save Canada's Boreal Forests		01 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Great Green North Massive Agreement Aims to Save Canada's Boreal Forests A huge forest-protection initiative will get off the ground in Canada today, aiming to put half of the nation's northern boreal forests -- some 650 million acres -- off-limits to logging and development, and to ensure that activity in the other half is carefully controlled and eco-friendly. A coalition of energy and timber companies, native communiti ...
Topics: logging, wilderness, wildlife (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)

Butterfly Flutter: Bye! Climate Change Could Wipe Out Monarch Butterflies		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Butterfly Flutter: Bye! Climate Change Could Wipe Out Monarch Butterflies Monarch butterflies could find themselves in serious trouble within 50 years because of climate change, according to new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Monarchs make an annual migration of more than 2,000 miles from spots as far north as the U.S.-Canada border to wintering grounds in Mexican fir forest ...
Topics: climate, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bigger Homes and Gardens As New Homes in Massachusetts Get Bigger, Enviros Get Worried		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Bigger Homes and Gardens As New Homes in Massachusetts Get Bigger, Enviros Get Worried If Americans follow the trend in Massachusetts, they'll increasingly be living in larger homes on larger lots, even though fewer people reside in each house. A new report by the Massachusetts Audubon Society found that the state is losing 40 acres of forest, farmland, and open space to development every day, with abo ...
Topics: green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics)

The Thrill of Defeat The climate bill lost out, but the environment may yet prove the winner	Amanda Griscom	05 Nov 2003	Muckraker
"We were nervous as hell," said Kevin Curtis, vice president of National Environmental Trust, describing the sentiment leading up to last Thursday's Senate vote that defeated the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act, 43 to 55. "But it's a great start. This may seem to be a defeat now, but in the end, it's a victory." Lieberman stumps for his bill. Pho ...
Topics: climate, energy, legislation, Muckraker, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Green Gobblin' California Fires Could Trigger Massive Changes in Forest Management		31 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Green Gobblin' California Fires Could Trigger Massive Changes in Forest Management The devastating forest fires raging across Southern California this week could initiate a change in environmental policy as sweeping -- but probably not as desirable -- as those ushered in by the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. Forest-management experts say blame for the fires is widespread, but t ...
Topics: California, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Senate Chainsaw Massacre Senate Passes Healthy Forests Initiative		31 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Senate Chainsaw Massacre Senate Passes Healthy Forests Initiative Meanwhile, forest management in the rest of the U.S. is set to change, too, with yesterday's 80-14 Senate vote in favor of a compromise version of President Bush's Healthy Forests initiative. Although the vote was somewhat influenced by the fires in California, its effect will be felt well beyond the Golden State, on as many as 20 million acres ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

On Thin Ice Sierra Nevada Glaciers Are Shrinking		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
On Thin Ice Sierra Nevada Glaciers Are Shrinking Glaciers that have topped California's Sierra Nevada Mountains for the past 1,000 years are shrinking markedly and even vanishing altogether, according to research by scientists from Portland State University and the U.S. Geological Survey. Seven Sierra Nevada glaciers that were surveyed over the summer are smaller than they were a century ago, including the Darw ...
Topics: California, US Geological Survey, wilderness (all these topics)

Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land The Bush administration announced yet another environmental rollback on Friday, following a pattern of releasing such news right before a holiday weekend, presumably in hopes that it will slip past the public's notice. This time the beneficiaries are mining companies, which, thanks to a reinterpretation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, politics, toxics, wilderness (all these topics)

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