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Paradise Without the Dashboard Light		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Paradise Without the Dashboard Light The word "Zion" means a peaceful paradise -- and for the past two years, Zion National Park has lived up to its name. Two summers ago, the famed Utah destination became the first national park in the continental U.S. to ban automobiles during peak visitor season. The resulting changes have been dramatic: fresh air, peace and quiet, the sounds of nature, and the r ...
Topics: national parks, placemaking, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife?		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
What's a Little Nerve Gas Among Wildlife? It seems like a wilderness paradise, replete with mule deer, bald eagles, and foxes -- but Colorado's Rocky Mountain Arsenal is also a Cold War relic contaminated by years of chemical weapons production. The 27-square-mile patch of land just 10 miles outside of Denver bears the paradoxical dual designation of National Wildlife Refuge and Superfund site. C ...
Topics: Colorado, health, pollution and waste, toxics, wilderness (all these topics)

Lambs to the Slaughter		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Lambs to the Slaughter The wildfires that are raging across the western U.S. this summer aren't just threatening the trophy homes of billionaires; they are also posing a danger to wildlife. Take bighorn sheep, which were reintroduced to the shores of Washington state's Lake Chelan after a century's absence. The sheep were finally gaining a foothold in the area; about 17 lambs were born in the spring, bringing the population to a ...
Topics: West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Radar Strange		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Radar Strange Ever since Sept. 11, sophisticated surveillance systems have been the talk of the town, and fans have proposed installing them in all sorts of places -- airports, subway systems, sports stadiums. But rainforests? Yep. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso flew to the jungle city of Manaus yesterday to inaugurate the Amazon Surveillance System, a $1.4 billion network of radar stations and high-tech equi ...
Topics: Amazon, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Hill's Tree Blues		18 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Hill's Tree Blues Just as some butterfly species head south every year, so apparently did Julia Butterfly Hill, the environmental activist who became an international cause celebre after she lived in a redwood tree in California for two years to protest planned logging in the area. Most butterflies don't wind up in prison, but that's precisely where the environmental activist is; Hill a ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Ecuador, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Zap Dingbats?		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zap Dingbats? The Montes Azules jungle in Mexico, near the Guatemala border, is one of the largest remaining pockets of tropical rainforest in North America -- and the battle to save it has created unusual political bedfellows, to say the least. The Lacandon people, who have lived in Montes Azules for centuries and legally own much of the reserve, have squared off against other indigenous people from the nearby highlands, who ...
Topics: Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Alcoa Can Wait		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Alcoa Can Wait And now, some news from a place you seldom hear about: Iceland, which is forming the backdrop for the latest skirmish in the battle between conservationists and power companies. The country's Vatnajokull Glacier is Europe's second-largest wilderness, and is graced with mountains, lakes, canyons, rivers, and abundant wildlife. Iceland's national power company wants to ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, dams, energy, Iceland, wilderness (all these topics)

I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey Fanning a different kind of flame, Republican lawmakers are blaming environmental groups for contributing to the fires that destroyed more than 3.1 million acres of U.S. forests this year by blocking federal projects to thin undergrowth. Thinning removes brush and dead trees from the forest understory, thereby eliminating some of the dry matter and reducing ...
Topics: logging, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Stupid Is Where Stupid Lives		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, wilderness (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Plant Nein		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Plant Nein A controversial decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not to set aside protected areas known as "critical habitat" for eight imperiled plant species has been challenged by a federal judge in California. The ruling by Judge Irma Gonzalez was greeted triumphantly by environmentalists, although it merely orders the USFWS to reconsidered its position within three years, rather than overturning the agency's d ...
Topics: California, wilderness (all these topics)

Under Loch and Key		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Under Loch and Key After 50 years of debate, Scotland will get its first-ever national park this month. The area around Loch Lomond, where the park will be established, attracts 5 million visitors annually but currently lacks an effective management structure to balance the area's conflicting interests and protect the landscape and wildlife that are its main attraction. Establishment of the Loch Lomond and the ...
Topics: lakes, national parks, Scotland, wilderness (all these topics)

Peru-stroika		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Peru-stroika An international coalition of conservation organizations is seeking protection for a 74 million-acre, species-rich tropical corridor between Peru and Bolivia. Conservation International and Peru's National Institute of Natural Resources are working with local authorities to try to protect the region from mining, oil and gas exploitation, road and dam construction, and logging. The corridor includes 15 pre-existing pr ...
Topics: Bolivia, Peru, wilderness (all these topics)

Khmer Green?		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Khmer Green? A new kind of battle is taking place in Cambodia, this one between conservationists and international paper companies. Cambodia's central Cardamom Mountains were a stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, and as such were avoided by timber companies and others who feared being kidnapped or killed. With the Khmer Rouge largely subdued, however, timber companies have started to make good on current logg ...
Topics: business, Cambodia, logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Amazon Grace		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Amazon Grace Here's a little bit of welcome news from the Southern Hemisphere: The rate of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest has fallen sharply, according to Brazilian environmental officials. Between 2000 and 2001, the rate of logging and set forest fires fell by 13 percent, from roughly 7,000 square miles of forest destroyed in 2000 to about 6,000 last year. The Brazilian governme ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, rainforests, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Haida Ho		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Haida Ho In an unusual move, unhappy employees of paper giant Weyerhaeuser are siding with native inhabitants of British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, the Haida, in their legal battle against the company. Earlier this year, the Haida sued the company for control of the islands and their forests; on Monday, a reported 135 of 155 Weyerhaeuser employees on the island allied themselves with the Haida. The workers a ...
Topics: British Columbia, business, wilderness (all these topics)

Dry Upheaval		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dry Upheaval As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation's water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation and other degradation of fragile high mountain ecosystems, according to Carlos Castano, director of the country's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies. The pa ...
Topics: Colombia, deforestation, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Miner Threat		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Miner Threat The Bush administration canceled yesterday a two-year ban on new mining claims in roughly 1.2 million acres in and around southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest. The ban was imposed by the Clinton administration in response to lobbying efforts by conservationists, who wanted the area declared a national monument. Instead, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt imposed the moratorium to a ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Oregon, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Sign of the TIMOs		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Sign of the TIMOs A major shift is taking place in U.S. timber ownership, and it could have significant consequences not just for the industry but also for ecosystems across the country. Traditionally, the major private owners of forestlands in the U.S. have been forest product companies, but increasingly, such land is being bought by investment groups hoping to make money on their holdings. In the la ...
Topics: business, land stewardship, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Yosemite Slam		21 May 2002	Daily Grist
Yosemite Slam As the fifth highest waterfall on the planet, Yosemite Falls is one of the world's most photographed natural wonders -- and the area around it is one of the most heavily tromped, trampled, and otherwise degraded. The falls attract about 3 million visitors per year, which has lead to despoiled trails, jam-packed parking lots, and overcrowded bathrooms. All that could change courtesy of a tw ...
Topics: California, national parks, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics)

Something Not Wild		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Something Not Wild The U.S. Forest Service yesterday came out against adding any new wilderness areas to southeastern Alaska's 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest. The recommendation was a response to a ruling by U.S. District Judge James Singleton, who sided with environmentalists last year in ordering the Forest Service to determine if there were parts of the temperate rain forest that Congress could set aside ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Listen to a Story 'bout a Man Named Jeb		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Listen to a Story 'bout a Man Named Jeb In a move that divided the state's environmental community, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) signed a law yesterday that will provide millions of dollars of funding to restore the Everglades. On the up side, the law will create a bonding program worth $100 million per year -- money that will be matched by federal funds -- to finance land purchases, studies, and the removal of a decades ...
Topics: Florida, land stewardship, wilderness (all these topics)

Barking Up the Right Tree		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
Barking Up the Right Tree Apparently spooked by a recent history of devastating floods and blinding sandstorms, China has unveiled a plan to plant trees on almost 200,000 square miles of land in an effort to reverse rampant deforestation. The plan, which Chinese officials call the largest conservation effort ever attempted, will cost an estimated $12 billion over 10 years and restore trees to an area larger than Ge ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

Go Get 'em, Tigers		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Go Get 'em, Tigers The world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarban, spans the border between Bangladesh and India, but the countries don't have a joint plan to manage the 3,700-square-mile area. The United Nations is hoping to change that. Two U.N. entities, the International Partnership Fund and the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, are p ...
Topics: Bangladesh, deforestation, India, land stewardship, national forests, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

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