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n immensely popular Republi- Republican incumbents' loyalty to that' But the Democrats have their norships will be very important in can president campaigns hard policy, almost certainly led to .their counter-arguments. They were 1990, when congressional seats are A in the'West, and yet loses race replacement by Democrats. outspent by the Republicans in Senate reapportioned, and so the effects of afrer race for the U.S. Senate. Clear In Colorado, Reagan's position on races $93 million to $62 million. this election will be felt in 1990. proof, some argue, that Congressman the Strategic Defense Initiative. (Star Averaged over 34 races, that's $1 The numbers, as always, can prove Tip O'Neill, Jr. is correcr when he Wars) was echoed and then amplified million-a race. (In addition, Republi- anything; the' gut impressions speak says, "All politics is local." by Republican Ken Kramer. So can national committees raised $179 more clearly. Utah's conservative U.S. extreme was Kramer's trillion dollar million to the Democrats' $35 million.) Sen. Orrin Hatch, who gives up a There is another interpretation. position on Star Wars that he gave Moreover, the Democrats showed Senate chairmanship, told the Deseret Politics is local in the sense that voters Democrat Tim Wirth miles of running grass-roots strength. Nationally, they News: "It's the end of the Reagan who would have re-elected Reagan room. Wirth, in deference to the picked up six legislative chambers, revolution. I can't believe it." with another landslide ·felt no state's heavy economic stake in and now control, both chambers in 29 In the mountain 'states, until the obligation to give him the senators of defense spending, could support states. Western legislatures remain night of Nov. 4, it seemed that Reagan his choice. They voted as Nevadans, research and development while still solidly Republican, although Demo- and his conservative tide were North Dakotans and Oregonians; not staying to the left of Kramer. Wirth crats gained the lower house in invincible. The election created a new as participants in a national plebiscite. also hammered away at what he said Nevada 'and perhaps the Senate in landscape. Democrats didn't sweep Nevertheless, the senatorial elec- was the administration's anti-en- North Dakota. the West, but they showed that, when tions were determined by national vironmental policies, of which Kramer On. the other hand, Republicans free to campaign on their own merits, forces in several Western states. The was an enthusiastic supporter. won the lower House in Montana and they could win. They won a Reagan administration's policies on President Reagan's supporters the Senate in Nevada. Both had been congressional sea-t in Utah, won nuclear waste helped defeat Republi- point out that he lost the Senare in the evenly split. The Montana Senate will another ·one in Colorado' s Weste~ can candidates in two nuclear dump West by a handful of votes.' If only be evenly '.split, with a Democratic Slope against a congressman who had waste states: Washington and Nev- 36,000 voters in five ·Western states lieutenant governor giving his party tied himself tightly to Reagan, kept ada. The latter election, in which (Colorado, Nevada, Washington and control of committees. The New one congressional seat and the gover- Harry Reid beat] im Santini, may have the Dakotas) had switched votes, the Mexico Senate will be evenly split, . norship in super-conservative Idaho, also .dashed the longshot political Republicans would have controlled the with the New Mexico House and· generally gained ground in '. I hopes of Nevada Senator and Reagan Senate 50-50. If another 5,000 had Democratic. heavily Republican state legislatures intimate Paul Laxalt. switched in Alabama, they would have The Republicans remain solidly or such';" Utah's. In normally Republican North and had the Senate without the tie-break- overwhelmingly in control of the state- South Dakota, the administration's ing help of vice president George house in Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and policy on farm prices, and the two Bush, Wyoming. Statehouses and gover- (Continued on page 7) Line R t.r.nQ Tlrget L

This issue was to be HCN s return to normal: 16 pages, no color, a photo centerspread and a nice balance between Roundups, Hotlines, and one or two lengthier features. But events are in the saddle, and while we heroically staved off color and extra pages, balance and centerspread are gone. The general election, like the one in 1980, will determine the West's course for the next several years; as a result, much of this issue is devoted' to it. In place of a photo centerspread, News for the most there is a two-page belated Thank-You Descriminating tastes. to 1986 Research Fund donors. The idea for the illustration by David Wilson came from Stephen Martinek of Palo Verde, California. He wrote on his Research Fund card: "Thanks for making the West a community." His EXTRA EXTRAS sentence summed up what HCN tries NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES to do: Cover the rural West as if the ZCMI Mall • State Street Entrance • 322-1925 region were a small town. Rather than displace the names of of his American Indians, Time and the the Galapagos Islands. The couple donors (we still have many to,thank), Law -- Native Societies in a Modern stopped by Paonia Sunday, October we have reprinted the Research Fund Constitutional Democracy, published 19, to say they were no longer on the card on this page. If you have not yet by Yale University Press. Watching island. Instead, they are touring the contributed, we hope you will do so. Wilkinson ponder each inscription at Rockies, looking for a niche. Jerry had By contributing now, you can do good length made us understand' why his worked ,at .the . Charles Darwin even as you do well. Experts say a work is consideredso highly. ' Research Station under contract with donation to a tax-deductible organiza- The former NARF attorney told the the international division of the Nature tion in 1986' will be worth a larger 100 or so guests that if, for example, Conservancy. Jeannie originally came deduction from personal taxes than in Colorado University were to fold, its to the paper when, she took a HIGH COUNTRY NEWS (ISSNIOI91/5657) 1987. (In our 1987 RF drive, we shal students, faculty and mission would is published biweekly, except for one issue geography course at Berkeley titled during) uly and one issue during J anuaey, by downplay the importance of the find new homes elsewhere. But The West, taught then by Prof. Jim the High Country News Foundation, 124 Grand change.) NARF, he said, is unique: the only Parsons and now by Dave Larson and Av'enue, Paonia, Colorado 81428. Second-class HCN has been getting some press organization devoted to defending postage paid at Paonia, Colorado. ,Paul Starrs. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to lately. The Whole Earth Review listed Indian rights in the courts. NARF is Finally, the Nature Conservancy's HIGH COUNTRY NEWS, Box 1090, Paonia, the paper, calling it "intelligent and located at 1506 Broadway, Boulder, Tom Wolf has a new home. He has CO 81428. unique.,;" John McPhee's Rising CO 80302. moved hi'S office and self to Jackson, Tom Bell from the Plains, first published in The HCN still has subscribers in all 50 Wyoming. Editor Emeritus New Yorker, is out as a book. Its states, but it has lost its most remote ./ Ed Marston subject is Wyoming geologist David readers: Jerry and Jeannie Emory of " ~ Pubhiher Love; \HCN is mentioned as a cause .- " ;. oJ ...... ,." ,,;'~~. .;>'". o ....> ...- ... - ~~. 'i Betsy Marston Love supports, Editor HeN is being used as an attraction Judy Moffan in an ad campaign to draw people to BUILETIN BOARD Development Extra Extras -- a store in the ZCMI A COLORADO WILDERNESS EIS Marjane Ambler Mall in downtown Salt Lake City. The A MISSOURI RIVER SYMPOSIUM Bruce Farling The Colorado BLM is preparing an The Missouri River: The Resources Glenn Oakley ad, reproduced on this page, is being environmental impact statement for and Their Uses and Values will be the Geoffrey O'Gar:a run in a magazine in Salt Lake City. seven wilderness study areas in the White topic of a symposium Dec. 9" 1986, in c.t. Rawlins The strategy of the ad, we guess, is River, Kremmling and Little Snake Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored by the Pat Ford that a store that 'carries something resource areas in northwest Colorado. A.merican Fisheries Society and the U.S. eonln"bllling Editors The Bureau of Land Management will called HIgh Country News must carry Fish and Wildlife Service. To be held in Jen Brunner consider wilderness values, timber, conjunction with the 48th Midwest Fish Graphicsl Accounting everything. wildlife, minerals· and ranching opera- and Wil"hle Conference, the gathering Mary Moran tions when writing the EIS, and the public' will look at -the Missouri River' from a Research Associate Circulation manager C.B. Elliott is is invited to participare; Public meetings historical perspective to show present always qn the lookout for trends. She, have been held; but for more information changes , their effects and to develop a Steve Hinchman and to send 'written comments write Greg Kate Mclvor tells us that we have recently lost two philosophical approach to th~ river. Goodenow, Project Manager, BLM Craig In/ems There will also be reviews of subscriptions to love I or at least to District Office, 4)) Emerson Sr., Craig, state-of-the-art fisheries and river biolo- C.B. Elliott propinquity, when four subscriber CO 81625 (3031824·8261). Circulation IProduction gy. Speakers will be from state game and households merged into two. It conservation departments along the river, J udy Heideman $10,000 10 NPCA occurred to us that publications that the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Typesetting A '10,000 Albert Schweitzer prize in depend on subscriber income must do, the humanities was awarded to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For infor- Tom Bell, Lander WY National Parks and Conservation Associa- mation, contact Chuck Sowards, U.S. Fish Michael Clark, II!ashington D. C. better when the divorce rate is rising. and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 986, SallyGordon, Kaycee WY Nevertheless, we wish the couples the tion, a 67-year.old non-profit group that Pierre, SD 5750'1 (605/224.8693). Adam Mcl.ane, Helena MT best. works [0 improve national parks. The Kate Missett, Buffalo WY Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Jerold Panas, San Francisco Cil . We attended a moving ceremony founded seven years ago by a German BITTERROOT REVIEWS Garren Ray, Fori Collins CO Nov. 6 at the home of the Native businessman, granted its first annual The Bitterroot National Forest, in Patrick Sweeney, Billings MT American Rights Fund -- a book award last month to the Washington, southwestern Montana, has published a Herman Watsh, Emigranl MT D.C.-based association. NPCA president list of environmental assessments and Robert Wigington, Boulder CO signing by Oregon University Law Paul Pritchard said the prize was the environmental impact statements being Board of Directors Professor Charles Wilkinson. Wilkin- greatest honor the association had prepared in 1987 that cover everything son spent several hours signing copies from the travel plan to individual timber Articles appearing in High Country News- received. are .indexed in Environmental Periodicals sales. 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~ ,.. ~ HOTLINE • In southern Utah.A step towards dialogue After 13 years " '. .~ , . " f The Southern Utah Wilderness rion will undermine their struggle for Congress approved wild and scenic Alliance sponsored an unusual economic survival. designation for 75 miles of northern conference Oct. 11-12. Conservationists argued that, wild- Colorado's Cache La Poudre Rivet The three-year-old group invited erness study areas have not caused Oct. 16, making it the first Colorado the pro· development community to the decline in mining,' farming and river to get federal protection. The rneetjn discussion and .debate near ranching, and that wilderness desig- bill, sponsored by Colorado Republi- Moab in Grand County. Back on July nation will help local people. New jobs cans Rep. Hank Brown and Sen. Bill 4, 1980, county commissioners there would become available in guiding, Armstrong, designates 31 miles as' fastened an American flag to a outfitting and supplying, they said, "wild," with no dams or roads bulldozer and plowed a road into a and ranches might add bed and allowed, and 44 miles as "recreation- Bureau of Land Management wilder- breakfast facilities. al, 'J which permits roads, dams and ness study area. Since then some John Williams, director of the Five some development. The new status, people in Utah have maintained County _Association of Government in however, was a hard-fought corn- friendships by carefully avoiding Utah, pointed out that tourism is. promise between environmentalists, discussion of environmental issues. already the single largest employer in adjacent landowners, water providers Utah, providing 36 percent of jobs. and sportsmen. Present water rights Saturday morning registration Tourism, however, only provides 23 are not affected, nor is dam building l found Pack Creek Ranch crowded with percent of the state's income. The downstream' precluded. The Poudre some 100 visitors from throughout the implication was that tourism can be and its south fork will be protected T intermountain West and both coasts. part of survival bur cannot restore from its headwaters in Rocky \ But "oldrimers" -- mostly those who prosperity . Mountain National Park to the town of profited' from uranium mining and Ken Sleight, a river-outfitter Poudre Park, just northwest of Ft. 1 milling until the bust -- were whose Pack Creek Ranch was the site Collins. The Poudre was first underrepresented. Also missing were of the meeting, said there should be a nominated for wild and scenic status, superintendents from some of Utah's broader definition of tourism than along with 12 other Colorado nvers, spectacular national parks, such as "the push to make all roads lead to ·back in 1973. Zion and Bryce. The failure of Calf Creek Falls in Utah's Death Del Webb country." Del Webb Corp. Congress to pass a continuing budget Hollow ELM WzidernessStudy Area runs the marinas and other tourist resolution caused' parks to' close and" amenities at Lake Powell. kept officials at home. But the them?; the future of southern Utah: 'Among participants were Craig discussions that did take place dollars and sense; and the Burr Trail: Bigler, economic development special. between park staff, conservationists road to ruin? Two panels were lively isr in Moab, Sam Taylor, editor of the and long-time southern Utah residents with debate but absence of opposition Moab Times-Independent, Jimmy revealed broad areas of agreement. softened the others. Walker, Grand County commissioner, Almost all said it was desirable to San Juan County Commissioner Terri Martin, National Parks and designate BLM wilderness. areas Cal Black, a prominent spokesm~n for Conservation Association, Maggie I adjacent to parks. the extractive industries, sent a Fox, Sierra Club and Darrell Knuffke, Panels were held on BLM representative, Carl Eisemann, who The Wilderness Society. wilderness: How much is enough?; emphasized the fear of county Utah's national parks: Can we protect residents that any wilderness designa- --La Rue Christie Proposed Idaho road threatens elk herd A proposed 8.8-mile road linking BLM office came from as high up as The BLM decided not to file charges the farming towns of Egin and Hamer the office of Interior Secretary Donald against the county, but state Director in eastern Idaho continues to draw Hodel, says Jayne. He points to a trail Vail sent a letter warning them not to sharp public comment. The controver- that led from frustrated county do it again. A dirt trail usable by sial farm- to-market road made commissioners to Idaho Lt. Gov. David four-wheel drive vehicles already national news this summer when Leroy, the state Legislature and finally exists along the proposed route, even Washington, D.C., officials overturn- to Washington, D.C. In the draft EIS though it is on public land and not ed a local BLM district manager's the BLM's new preferred alternative supposed to be there. decision to deny the road application. is to build the road, and is supported. Recently, Shoshone-Bannock tribal The manager was then barred from by Leroy, the Legislature and the officials threatened to sue if the road is involvement in the matter (HCN, county commissioners. built, saying it would violate hunting 8/4/86). The Idaho Falls-based Environ- rights guaranteed to them in the 1868 The proposed road' crosses' the mental Council Insists the decision to Fort Bridger Treaty. The elk herd's migratory route of up to 2,500 elk in an build the road short-circuits the winter refuge near the St. Anthony area designated as both crucial winter governmental process. In a recent sand dunes is part of the tribe's Coal conveyor habitat and of critical environmental letter to "the BLM, the conservation traditional hunting grounds, and concern by the Idaho Bureau of Land group asked for any new evidence that under the treaty tribal members have Coal slides downhill Management. The elk herd, one of the changed the road decision. "If they're the right to harvest two elk a year. The largest free-roaming herds in the elk continue to be a primary source of not going to admit it's a political For Sale: Used coal conveyor and West, provides Idaho with approxi- food for 400 to 500 tribespeople , decision, they better come up with loadingfactlity, it quarter-mile long, to mately 23,700 hunter-days a year according to the Idaho Falls some evidence to justify-the change," good home, asking $300,000-$400,000. valued at $570,000, says the BLM. Post-Register. says Jayne. Might be useable as a dirty-laundry The Idaho Department of Fish and Stare ~LM Director Vail said in an During the fall, BLM officials chute for the ELM, a shotgun-style Game reports that construction of the interview he had no contact with studied most of the criticisms of the pump action MX missile silo, or, with road could reduce the herd to as few as Hodel, but says he reviewed the case draft statement, leading to what many windows added, as a bear-proof 150 animals. with Assistant Secretary Steve Griles. think will be a compromise solution: sight-seeing tunnel in Yellowstone. If the road is built it would save Vail also says Frandsen was removed building the mad, but dosing it during Owners of the closed Snowmass local farmers $90,000 a year in from the case because of "sensitivity the winter when the elk migrate. coal mine near Carbondale, Colorado, transportation costs, according to issues. -Sseve Hinchman had hoped to sell all their used BLM estimates. But the farmers who At public hearings in Boise and equipment at auction last month. want the road say their savings could Idaho Falls held this August, Vail But while moveable equipment went be as much as 10 times' that amount. reports the crowds were evenly split fast, the entire coal-wash and- The local road controversy spilled BAPillS on the road, although Doth sides preparation plant, as well as the over into the political arena last criticized the BLM's draft EIS. Before Raising unconscious, condescend- conveyor and loading facility, still August. The Idaho Environmental the public comment period ended ing snobblsm to a dizzying new remain on the block. The conveyor Council used the Freedom of - Sept. 12, Vail received over 200 letters height. system, approximately $2.5 million Information Act to obtain a letter with "substantial comments" and New Yorker film critic Pauline new, is a steal at $400,000. To build written by the BLM' s District 400-500 ·signatures on petitions. He Kael, in her Nov. 17, 1986, review of the same system from scratch ";ould Manager O'dell Frandsen just days says most were against the road, but Something Wild, wrote: "But the cost between $7·8 million today, before he was removed from the case "we don't look from a popularity movie gives you the feeling you according to Bill Niggemeyer, presi- by state BLM Director Delmar Vail. standpoint." A final decision is due sometimes get when you're driving dent of Universal Equipment, which Jerry Jayne, a Council board member, across the country listening to a from Vail in November. owns the mine. Universal must says Frandsen was about to mail his In the meantime, Fremont County terrific new tape, and out in nowhere remove all its equipment by the end of -decision when Vail intervened. workers have already graded two to you pull into a truck stop and the next summer, says the state Mined The decision to overrule the local three miles of the Egin-Hamer road. jukebox is playing the same song." Land Reclamation Board. Line R renee T1rvet

4-H,gh Country News -- November 24, 1986 Battling inappropriate technology It's a compact office, like so many in the low-rent diserict of Eugene, -I" Oregon. Papers' seem to cover every = Z/I-''- =-= +-= u \ surface, grey light filters through ~0' ~ &arfu~ fogged windowpanes and the phones '-'II .. Cowl> are ringing. ~II t~"' . MONTANA "Good afternoon, " answers a :

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. High Country News -- No"ember 24, 198(j-5 I As acidic as the driven snow 1 HOTLINE ! More precious MOLAS PASS, Colo. -- The only sign of life here at 10,800 feet is a lone than money l! skier's tracks across a sea of snow. Residents of a tiny and remote The skier's trail leads to $43,000 of Idaho town are resisting a developer's scientific equipment, an outdoor scheme to put a hydro project on their laboratory in the San Juan Mountains I primary natural resource _. north that is one of 200 monitoring stations Idaho's highest set of waterfalls. Elk in the United States,' and one of 10 in River, Idaho, population 200, is a Colorado, All are part of the National shrinking town in a depressed Atmospheric Deposition Program. timber-based economy, but has The man at the end of the ski decided it doesn't want economic tracks is Mark Story, a hydrologist for development at the price of Elk Creek the San Juan National Forest. "It's Falls. Lewiston, Idaho, developer kind of hard to believ~ when you get in Richard Siggismonti offered the Town these pristine mountains that you can Council $40,000 a year, which is half have the air pollution problem," he the town's annual' budget, and says. promises of increased tourism, if it Every week Story collects the dry would let him build a power plant that and wet acid deposits and documents would divert a good portion of the r the hourly weather conditions asso- I water that normally goes over rhe ciated with them, both at Molas Pass I falls. Siggismonri told the Spokane and at the Engineer Mountain Guard Spokesman-Re"iew that "power Station north of Durango, Colorado. plants and tourists go hand in hand," d The Durango-area stations, installed and that he could bring 25,000 tourists last December, will measure chemical to Elk River. Townspeople, have deposits in the Weminuche Wildet- mobilized to stop the plan. The ness Area for the next three to 10 Federal Energy Regulatory Commis- yeflcs. _.' -; > . " Mark Story' at acid deposition monitoring station in the San Juan Mountains sion, which is reviewing the project's The National Atmospheric Deposi: license application, says it has cion Program, primarily fund~d by the come back as nitric acid, and frontal received 180 negative comments on Environmental Protection Agency, 15 area has been implicated as a source the issue, the most appeals ever related to the national acid-rain study of emissions that acidify precipitation storms that hit the San Juans received against a project. of lakes made last fall, Fifteen lakes in on the eastern slope of the Rockies, traditionally sweep Southern cali- the Weminuche and 3,000 nationwide sources' of acid rain west of the fornia first, he adds, In addition, two were sampled to form a chronological Continental Divide are less certain. new smelters in Mexico without Off road vehicle' , bench mark so scientists can Potential sources are coal-fired pollution controls are now in the A semitrailer truck carrying 20 determine if the chemical content of power plants in the Four Corners process of starting up. Both smelters are within 60 miles of the Arizona wooden boxes filled with 16w-grade the lakes is changing, region. The greatest sulfate emissions uranium rods plunged off .a bridge on "We know about 70 percent of the come from copper smelters in border. Oct. 12 into the Snake River near lakes in the Weminuche are southern Arizona and southwestern "We have the highest probability Rupert, Idaho. Department of Energy considered sensitive to ..acid rain," New Mexico, according to the of acid-deposition sources in the San . and Idaho police .officials say no ~Am'f!r;c;a1!~.W~st'~.I1.cid R'r.fn Test.: a Juan Range combined' with the St~I){_1~aJ;~,.~~~~$..y!~~!4~~~t~?~Wfr,hP.~_,~ measurable radiation was released in much were ac~any geJtlfig.: . ,.,,_,. .year. old .reporr published .by WQrlIllinois not only how much sulfate and deposition from southern California lakes, makes this area particularly wrecking crews recover the load. The nitrate deposition there is, but where and possibly quite a bit of it," Story vulnerable to acid rain. truck was 011 its way from it comes from. says. Nitrous oxide emitted from The Durango-area stations are the a uranium-enrichment facility in Ash- While the Denver metropolitan vehicles in the Los Angeles basin can first installed by the EPA in two years. The installation here was partly tabula, Ohio, to the Hanford Nuclear prompted by acidic pH readings at Reservation in Richland, Washington. nearby Mesa Verde National Park. NeAP sprays with lawsuits The only automated device at the stations is an acid-deposition collector. NCAP staffers have a hard time programs in the Siuslaw National It collects rain and snow in a bucket keeping track of the lawsuits their Forest. In 1977, District Judge Otto that opens automatically. A second members have filed. .' :Skopil imposed an emergency injunc- container is uncovered between rain or . One member, Paul Merrill, is tion to stop the Forest Service from snow and only collects dust and, dirt working on his fourth suit. His first led spraying 2,4,5-T in region 6 (Oregon deposits. Story gathers the contents of to a nationwide halt of aerial herbicide and Washington), Two years later, the the buckets weekly. spraying by the US Forest Service. His EPA ordered an emergency suspen- A gauge that measures the amount next three are pending: a Freedom of sion of 2,4,5-T. In 1979, they made it of precipitation by weight resembles a Information suit to get the Environ- permanent, and Dow Chemical gave milk can. Antifreeze inside the can mental Protection Agency to release up its $10 million effort to keep the melts snow so the gauge can record the results of a five-year srudy of herbicide on the market. In' 1985, precipitation by weight, A collection of dioxins in the Oregon Coast Range; a Union Carbide and the other smaller spiked shields ringing the opening Ninth Circuit Court suit to force the manufacturers also gave up, reaching prohibits wind from blowing snow in EPA to do environmental impact a deal that called for the EPA to buy horizontally and allows for accurate statements beforeregistering any new their remaining stocksof the chemical. measurement. The two instruments pesticides; and a suit against several The legal battle against 2,4-D are on an eight-foot high platform, a Moab garbage dump cabinet level officials and police began when government agencies foot above maximum snowfall at the agencies for illegal surveillance and turned to that chemical after 2,4,5-T's Molas Pass site. " Wbatadump harassment. ban. Three separate suits against After thousands of hours of legal various districts of the Forest Service ..D,S. Curtain The 'Chamlier of Commerce in work and one national victory, Merrill and Bureau of Land Management Moab, Utah, boasts that its town has decided to make a move that would were decided in favor of the plaintiffs the most beautiful garbage dump in enable him to file suits for other in 1982and 1983. NCAP then filed suit the country. To prove it, the chamber people. He enrolled' in law school. to halt virtually all northwest Forest BAPtB6 is sponsoring a nationwide "most "They weren't going to let me get Service and BLM spray programs. In scenic dump" contest, and the away with poaching forever," he says. 1984District Judge J ames Burns ruled "There's only room for one McD in challenge has already drawn reo "I had to get a hunting license:" in their favor. In response, Forest this here town, so you belfer mosey sponses from Salt Lake City, Utah, The battle against 2,4,5-T, which Service Chief Max Peterson cancelled out of ber«..... Grand Junction, Colo.,. Scarsdale, together with 2,4-D made up Agent all aerial spray programs nationwide. The McDonald's Corp. recently N.Y., Virginia Beach, Va., and Orange, lasted almost a decade and "It was basically a defensive won a court battle against McDhar- Covington, Ky. The contest will be gave NCAP workers training in the move," says NCAP staffer Mary rna's "natural fast-food" vegetarian based on photographic evidence and workings of the legal system. O'Brien. "They knew they were open restaurant in Santa Cruz, California. judged by an independent landscape In 1976, one of NCAP's original for suits in any of the other regions on McDbarma's, which serves Brahma architectural group. The Moab member groups, CATS (Citizens the same issue." Burgers and Dharma' Dogs, lost the Chamber of Commerce can be readied Against Toxic Sprays), filed suit to copyright to its name, but still remains at 59 South Main, Moab, UT 84532 stop the Forest Service's spray , ' --Jim Stiak open for business. 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g. IN THE WEST p.WI~ Sen. James McClure and the Forest Service are big losers

tlO:3U p.m. election evening, and we won't have the tactic of Committee. "That's. a ISO-degree ballot referendum' opposing the Idaho Republicans were srnil- holding everything anyone else wants change," Steve Richardson says. Hanford site. Since the administration Leahy is a strong wilderness advocate, made political promises not to srudy .A ing. Two networks had hostage to Fores t Service road projected .Steve Symms the winner money." and according to Richardson will be Eastern sites, the program is over John Evans for Idaho's junior McClure loses more than his much less inclined to interfere in well-mired with no clear way out of Senate seat. Republican Dave Leroy chairmanships. His committee tactics National Forest planning than stalemate. - was 10,000 votes up on Cecil Andrus have often angered fellow Republicans McClure and Helms. Finally, the climate on wilderness in the governor's race (Andrus would as well as Democrats. This year, for Everyone, including Sen. legislation will change. This year, squeak by to victory the. next instance. he tacked an important McClure-, agrees on one specific result Harty Reid passed a 592,OOO-acre morning). Republicans were winning amendment onto hydroelectric re- of these changes: Forest Service Nevada wilderness bill in the House, three-fourths of state legislative licensing legislation late one Friday roadbuilding budgets will go down._ but Sens. Laxalt and Hecht killed it in contests. when few senators were on the floor. The last two years, McClure has the Senate. Now Reid replaces Laxalt But Idaho's most powerful Repub- The amendment, which weakened fish fought back administration and House in the Senate; moving a wilderness bill lican was not smiling. Whatever might and wildlife protections, upset arternprs. to cut road money. The will be one of his ·priorities. happen in Idaho, Democrats had Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Washing- conflict was especially fierce this year; John Gatchell of the Montana recaptured the U.S. Senate, an~ Jim ton's Dan Evans, Republican mem- McClure used up much of his political Wilderness Association thinks their McClure had lost his comrnirtee bers of McClure's Energy Committee. capital to keep the road budget high. chances on Montana wilderness are a chairmanship. So had six other They had worked hard on the bill in "J ohn Stennis, who takes Appro- bit improved, too. "The Democratic Western Republicans. 'A reporter at subcommittee and knew nothing of the priations, has lots of private timber Senate further' reduces Rep. Ron the Republican election parry in Boise amendment until it had passed. holdings in his state," Melynkovych Marlenee's power," Gatchell says. called McClure "ashen." "What respect McClure got had to do notes. "He won't be interested in big "He's our delegation's most anti- Among Western Republicans, with his position, not with him," says National Forest timber harvests." wilderness member, and he won't be McClure is the biggest loser from the one veteran Idaho conserv-ationist. Robert Byrd will be more interested in able now to reach across to Republican Senate shift. For six years he has "Now he's lost that position, and I - deficit reduction than roadbuilding, friends in the Senate with much chaired the Senate Energy and don't think he'll get much respect on and Wisconsin's William Proxmire, Natural Resources Committee, which his committee from either side." the third- ranking Democrat on handles nearly all legislation affecting Appropriations, is Congress' leading public lands. He has also chaired the critic of Forest Service road budgets. Interior Appropriations Subcom- This year the administration proposed rnittee, which sets budgets for the- ther Western Republicans a freeze in the road budget, and the agencies managing the public lands. also lose influence. Wyo- House approved a 40 percent cut. In He has used those twin posts to keep Oming's Malcolm Wallop loses short, McClure is isolated, and all Forest Service timber and roadbuild- his chairmanship of the Energy signs point to much less roadbuilding ing budgets high, and Bureau of Land Committee's Public Lands Subcom- on Western publiclands. Management grazing fees 10w.He has mittee. That subcommittee, which resisted reform of the 1872 Mining considers all wilderness legislation: Law, and efforts to make federal oil will be run by Dale Bumpers of and gas leases competitive. He has Arkansas. "The difference between elynkOVYChexpects action on sharply reduced federal fish, wildlife, Wallop and Bumpers on wilderness is coal leasing. "The Energy and land acquisition budgets. Since night and day," Richardson says.. M, . _ Committee spent forever on . James Watt's departure, McClure has Chip Hecht of Nevada and Dan coal leasing last year, but never got a been public enemy number one of Evans may lose their seats on the bill out," he says. "McClure couldn't national and Western conservation Energy Committee altogether. As the shape a consensus)' A disagreement groups. He is the chief reason so many minority, Republicans will have seven between McClure and Montana'sSen. Sen. James McClure staff members of those groups could committee seats' rather than their John Melcher -- McClure wanted be found working in Democratic present nine. Hecht and Evans are the railroads to be able to own coal leases , effect." Sen. Melcher remains the Senate campaigns the final month. lowest-ranking Republicans of the and Melcher didn't -- held up the key; both he and Rep. Pat Williams His Energy Commitreechair now nrne. whole bill. As a result hundreds of coal plan to introduce their own wilderness goes to Bennett ] ohnston of Louisiana. Mark Hatfield loses the full leases near expiration may revert to bills next year. "We hope to sit down "Bennert Iohnsron and I will see alike Appropriations Committee chair, a the federal government. "The indus- with Sen. Melcher soon," Gatchell on most energy issues," McClure told powerful seat from which he has try is hoping Johnston can either ram says. reporters 'the day after the election. joined McClure to keep Forest Service something through or build the Idaho, the other Western state "But on public land issues, you'll see timber budgets high. John Stennis of consensus McClure couldn't," Mel- without a statewide bill, is problema- a different shading." Wilderness Mississippi assumes that seat. nykovych says. tic. Sen. McClure may be reluctant to Society lobbyist Steve Richardson is Wyoming's Alan Simpson has Sen. Bumpers may go after a pet push a bill quickly, given his more explicit: "Sen. Johnston has been Majority Whip in the Senate. issue -- oil and gas leasing reform. He weakened position. Idaho conserva- been quite supportive of wilderness "Simpson is well-respected hy wants to sack the lottery system, and tionists would just as soon not see proposals. He has. a fine record on everyone," says Andrew Melnykov- replace it with competitive bidding. immediate action. The unknown factor public lands budget and policy. We ych of the Casper Star- Tnbune 's Sen. Johnston's position on that1will is new Gov. Cecil Andrus. His national have a real opportunity." Washington office. "So I don't think be the key. stature and Democratic control of Johnston will also be a major loss of his leadership post will hurt Both the Energy and Environment Congress give Andrus the influence to influence in the Interior Appropria- Wyoming much. But he does lose the committees will likely get involved in broker a bill if he wishes, but he has tions Committee, where he is Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee the increasingly controversial national not revealed whether he will press for second-ranking Democrat. The chair- . chair (of the Senate Environment nuclear waste repository issue. New action soon. man will 'be West Virginia's Robert Committee}, where he's been able to Democratic Sens. Harry Reid in Steve Richardson says there is one Byrd, who will be Senate Majority modestly help Wyoming's uranium Nevada· and Brock Adams in last important result of the new Leader as well. "McClure used industry.' Washington were elected in good Senate. "There will now be staff on Interior Appropriations not just to set The final major change affecting- part on strong opposition to siting that these committees that believe in budgets bu r to make policy through ad public lands is transfer of the Senate repository in their states. (Hanford, conservation, in wilderness, in the hoc amendments and budget games, ' , Agriculture Committee from Jesse Washington, and the Nevada Test Site environment. They have more in- Richardson says. "Byrd and Johnston Helms to Vermont's Pat Leahy. The are the two leading candidate sites fluence than is generally appreciat- won't act like that. They won't Ag Committee shares jurisdiction over under study.) And Washington's ed." "i," circumvent authorized' cornmirtees , Forest Service issues with the Energy voters approved by some SOpercent a --Pat Ford Tarvel lRT -8E4-V2.

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. -i . I WASHINGTONSTATE Nuclear fallout hits incumbent senator Slade Gorton

he day after the election ip the made tor political reasons and was not state of Washington, one based on scientific fact. But, Adams Tobserver said Re-publican asked repeatedly, What had he done incumbent Sen. Slade Gorton had about it? "nuked himself." Democratic chal- Gorton blundered when he ad- lenger Brock Adams won a slim upset mitted that the first time he spoke to victory over Gorton largely on the President Reagan about Hanford was strength of one issue: the Hanford during a limousine ride from the Nuclear Reservation and its selection airport to a hotel when Reagan made a as a finalist for the national nuclear campaign stop for Gorton at Spokane waste repository. Adams had built a .- four days before the election. case throughout the campaign that the In recent years, Energy Depart- Department of Energy decision ment activities at Hanford have been occurred during Gorton's watch in the the subject of considerable criticism in other Washington, which meant that Oregon and Washington, particularly Gorton wasn't looking out for state among environmentalists and anti- interests. nuclear activists who have created several new monitoring groups. But The sentiments of Washington Chernobyl in April and Hanford's voters were made abundantly clear at selection as waste-dump finalist in the polls when a resounding 84 June jolted the entire region. The N percent of the voters approved an reactor at Hanford, which produces anti-dump Referendum 40. It directs plutonium and electric power, is the state officials to use all legal means Ll.Sc.reactor that most resembles the necessary to convince the national failed Chernobyl reactor. government to suspend the current .Critics of the waste dump have site selection process and to reverse questioned whether the series of Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Washington the decision to abandon plans for a tunnels drilled 3,000 feet down into second repository in the East. just before his tour. Both Adams and basalt formations will be sealed off Adams latched onto rhe Hanford Gardner travelled the state hammer- Incumbent Gorton had opposed the from the water table. A major worry is issue early and was assisted by ing at the DOE, the Reagan that the high-level wastes will Washington Gov. Booth Gardner, a site selection process that made administration and Eastern producers Hanford one of three finalists, along contaminate the acquifer used for Democrat who was possibly dosed by of the majority of nuclear wastes. The with Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and drinking water and get into !the radiation while visiting Hanford last strategy worked. Deaf Smith Counry, Texas. Gorton had Columbia River, which borders the year in a bizarre incident. Contractors apparently removed warning signs --John McCarthy also agreed that the selection was nuclear reservation. I

W¥@M-lNG - r.... Sullivan wins; L-P loses

yoming voters are known to Sullivan, with no serious competi- (Continued from page 1 be unpredictable. But in the tion, spent only $100,0.00. And governor's race, national apparently national Republican funds In very Republican WyofQing, a W flowed to tight Senate races in other little-known Democrat beat the bearer news commentators compared Dem- ocrat Mike Sullivan's trouncing of states, skipping over what seemed a of an illustrious Republican name for Pete. Simpson to defeating a Kennedy certain GOP gubernatorial victory in the governorship. Mike Sullivan won in Massachusetts. Wyoming. Toward the end of the even though the post had been held By .a comfortable eight-point campaign, Simpson' appeared in for 12 years by Democrat Ed margin', "tiie b~mocrat' defeated the financial' difficulty, 'reaching .into his Herschler, and the state is hurting geniaiand popular older brother of own pockets for a large share of his economically. In Colorado the harder Wyoming's senior senator, Alan campaign expenses. Republican gubernatorial candidate Simpson. That meant there was But Sullivan staffers reported tens Ted Strickland campaigned on considerable crossing of parry lines of thousands of dollars flowing into abortion and Religious Right grounds, since there are 58,000 more their candidate's coffers during the and the more Red-baiting he did, the Republicans than Democrats register- last week of the campaign and there MikeSullillan larger became Democrat Roy Romer's ed in Wyoming. were prominent Republicans, includ- lead. Historian and former Democratic ing Warren Morton, who made an Democrats made fewer gains in The lesson appears to be that the state Rep. T.A.· Larson thought a unsuccessful bid for governor in 1982, state Legislative races.' Republicans West, in the absence of Reagan on the liberal tinge scuttled Simpson's supporting Sullivan. will keep the same 19-11 edge over ballot, remains centrist. Republicans, chances. Larson told the Star- Tribune Though spending on the part of the Democrats in the Senate, and with a in pan due to past success, are tied to he was sure Simpson aggravated his candidates in the general election was net gain of two Democrats in the what some Republicans and Indepen- parry caucus by voting with minority about even, Sullivan's campaign House, Republicans will still out- dents see as extreme positions on Democrats on state employee pay insiders said their campaign dollar number Democrats 44-20. abortion, on church. state relations, on raises and retirement pay improve- went a lot further than Simpson's But one of those two seats gained taxation, and on financing of ment when he served. in the . With only three paid staff. compared to by Democrats in the state House was a education and other - services. By Legislature from 1980-1984. Rep. 11 in Simpson's camp, they relied on defeat for Louisiana-Pacific Corp. The contrast, the Western Democrats Lynn Dickey, D-Sheridan, noted that extensive volunteer networks in all of lumber company's chief foresrer, Bob didn't have to pull the heavy freight of during his legislative career Simp- Wyoming's 23 counties. Baker of Dubois, lost by 94 votes to a - a party symbolized in past elections by son's voting record was rated higher Sullivan said he believes his Riverton businessman, Eli Debout, dissension, Big Labor and minorities. than hers by environmental groups "straight talk" impressed voters. who was a write- in candidate in the New York Democratic Sen. Patrick (HCN,1O/27/86). Though early polls reflected his low Democratic primary. Debout won in a Moynihan said, "We have exorcised A seven-way Republican primary name recognition and newcomer counry where Republicans outnumber the war, the riots, the rhetoric .- and on Aug. 19 also took its toll on status, the 25-point spread between Democrats 2-1. thank God." Wyoming's Republican Parry and him and his better-known opponent Local Democratic Parry activist If nothing else, the 1986 elections eventual gubernatorial candidate. shrank as the campaign progressed. In Frances Pistano said, "Bob's name . gave both parties -- Republican and With over $1 million raised among the a series of radio and television debates was in the paper all the time but he Democrat -- a very heavy shove toward top four contenders, -rnany in-state Sullivan did not shirk- difficult has spoken to only one issue -- the center. The shove was no harder in funding sources were exhausted _questions. He would not categorically timber."- Baker told a local newspaper the West than in the nation generally; during the primary. Simpson spent rule out tax increases, and he told the that voters had not "seen the last of it just came as a surprise to the $300,000 seeking his parry's nomina- Wyoming Public Employees Associa- Bob Baker. " Republicans. tion, emerging with only a slim margin tion that some of its members might over the second place finisher. lose their jobs in 'budget cuts. --Kathanne Collins --Ed Marston UneR nlnc r1rv

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lO-High Country News -- November 24, 1986 THE1VAVAJONATION MacDonald retakes the chairmanship by defeating Zah INDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- After cu the closes telection ever for -e C W. . tribal chairman, Peter Mac- u fr Donald is back in the Navajo Nation's -e highest office. A six-day-long recount .s declared him the winner Nov. 10 against Peterson Zah: 31,114 to 30,336. MacDonald served as chair- man from 1970 to 1982, the year Zah ousted him by 5,000 votes: This time around the vote. was so close MacDonald took 54 chapter- houses, Zah took 53 and twowere tied. Chaprerhouses are spread throughout the 25,000-square mile reservation that equals West Virginia in size. Sixty-seven percent of the 89,000 registered voters went to the polls. There will be another recount. Zah paid $5,450 for the privilege, and that tally is expected to conclude before the end of November. The tribal chairman oversees the Tribal Council in Window Rock, capital of the Navajo Nation, and sets policy for the many social, health, educational and natural resource departments of the tribe. The chairman also helps monitor the federal government's obligation to provide the Navajo people with adequate health care and education, . MacDonald supporters cheer in the MacDonald campaign tent as election returns come in. as well as deciding land-use policies August primary by almost 7,000 votes send a message to Washington, D.C., The antiquated system allowed for and mineral contracts. to MacDonald, a shock that sent the and elsewhere that the Navajo Nation a humorous episode when one ballot The election was a cliffhanger, chairman from his Window Rock office is together once again. " box was temporarily "kidnapped" with both candidates declaring victory to a non-stop coffee and frybread Because parts of the reservation from the back of a pickup truck on its when the last votes trickled in at 2 circuit on the campaign trail. lack electricity aod telephone lines, it way from the Alamo Chapterhouse to a.m, Nov. 5. For six hours the race The 49-year-old chairman also took people -- not computers -- to the Window Rock Civic Center. The see-sawed like a tennis match with no . criticized MacDonald' s .,overpromises count the hand-cast ballots. Chapter: box was taken by two, MacDonald _ break point in sight. Over at and misstatements. " He promised the house el'tction officials then telepHdn?l~, supporters, .;;:~Ht1l~safcf,j;tiYe~'~;s-W";;:' n~1A MacDonald's "Big Mac Camp," disco whole world to everyone," Zah said. ed their votes to Window Rock. Police vehicle drive away from election lights flashed under a yellow circus While MacDonald did not promise two-way radios were used where headquarters without delivering the tent and the blast of Rocky movie mutton in every pot, he did promise a telephone wires had not yet reached. ballot box. The box was taken to music played. all night for close to tribal scholarship to every Navajo "We could still send smoke MacDonald's headquarters. The in- 1,000 supporters. Chants that "The srudent, regardless of grades, and a signals, but it's too far to see them," cident was cleared up when the ballots big Mac is Back ." penetrated the still new home to every Navajo veteran. joked Harry Wero, election admin- were recounted in front of federal and night, clear across the street into Zah consistently criticized these istration director, to a local reporter tribal police. The original drivers Zah's quieter camp. There, supporters campaign promises as impossible before the election. explained they found the election gathered around a dozen warming' .because they alone would consume the The ballot boxes were sealed and headquarters closed and they were fires, drinking coffee and occasionally tribe's $50 million annual average given to a police escort to election only driving the box to a guard's singing th;' Zah theme song, "Build- revenue. headquarters where the Vote's are house. A recount of that box ended ing a Nation." . Meanwhile, MacDonald,' '56, is recounted by a second round of wirh'one dropped Zah vote, ." ., Zah told his weary supporters to be calling· for a smooth transition iriro election"officials. proud of their honest campaign. office, and asking for unity among the "Don't put your heads down, because Navajo people. "We must put aside we stood for the right thing -- honesty, any bad feelings. We need to come accountability, providing for our together with open minds and children -- things that will be here cooperate," Maclroriald said. "We OHIO beyond Pete Zah." Zah had lost the need to unite as Navajo people and ~ ~-, An irreplaceable loss hough the House of Rep- Wilderness Society. (Richardson once resentatives remains firmly in served on Seiberling's subcommittee T Democratic control, one com- staff.) "But Chairman Vento has the mittee change there will have an Interest, aptitude, and energy to do a impact in the West. Ohio's John fine job, and I think he will." Vento, a Seiberling is retiring from Congress, former teacher from St. Paul, is-in his and will leave his Public Lands sixth term in the House. He is Subcommittee of the House Interior expected to combine Seiberling's old Committee to. Bruce Vento of subcommittee. and the National Parks Minnesota. Subcommittee he now chairs into a Seiberling has been the most single body .. ' effective wilderness champion in The biggest loss grass-roots . Congress for nearly a decade. He activists see is Seiberling's first-hand shepherded over a dozen state knowledge and commitment. Jerry wilderness bills (including the Alaska Pavia, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, has Lands Bill) through Congress in recent led a six-year local wilderness years. He was a powerful advocate for campaign for Long Canyon, the last conservationists in the major states major unroaded drainage in Idaho's remaining unsettled Montana, Panhandle. "Once Seiberling came Idaho, and Nevada. He had extensive out here and saw Long Canyon two _personal knowledge of wildlands years ago," Pavia says, "there was no nationwide, and his staff had an way he was ever going to settle for encyclopedic knowledge. anything but wilderness. Now we'll Peter MacDonald, left, and Peterson Navajo Nation's first-ever candidate "J ohn Seiberling is irreplace- have to start over with Mr. Vento: And Zah greet each other before the' debate, Oct. Ill, -1986.. able," says Steve Richardson of The we will." I --PafFord ...-..,.." 1 Tarvet LRT-8E4-V2,

Higt, Country News -- Novflmber 24, 1986-11 COLORADO Wirth, Romer succeed,Hart, Lamm lthough some Colorado elec- Representatives incumbents seeking , tion results were as close- as a re-election were defeated Nov, 4, and Arazor's edge, victory was still one was Republican Mike Strang, an sweet to the Democrats. Aspen. rancher and stockbroker. Ben The party extended its 12-year Nighthorse Campbell, 54, a Native hold on the governor's seat occupied American jeweler and -horse rancher, by retiring Gov. Richard Lamm; held won by a 7,198 vote margin, pulling .retiring Sen, Gary Hart's seat; and in off his victory in western Colorado by western Colorado, took back a taking heavily Democratic Pueblo by. congressional seat from. a first-term 12,000 votes, Republican and held a state legislative Campbell attributed his victory to slot vacated by the newly elected 1,000 unpaid volunteers in his lieutenant governor, For some of the sprawling district and to concern elections it was not clear until morning among residents for a revitalized -- who had won, economy and jobs, Only the race for governor was an Democrats continued their mo- easy call. Democrat Roy Romer, 57, mentum by holding onro ,the .~ who is state treasurer and a close congressional seat vacated by Tim Larnrn advisor, easily defeated Ted Wirth, as David Skaggs narrowly Strickland, the state Senate president defeated Mike Norton, Republican who ran for governor unsuccessfully in ] oel Hefley won the seat vacated 'by 1978. Romer swept 59 percent of the Ken Kramer, and Democrat Pat vote and accepted Strickland's Schroeder handily won re-election as concession at 9 p.m. did Republican incumbents Hank the attorney general and secretary of enough state legislative seats to end a The race had been marred by Brown and Dan Schaefer. The state but picked up the open veto-proof House, One of those seats smears; in fact one of Strickland's congressional delegation is thus treasurer's seat with Gail Schoerrler, was won by Bob Pastore' in western television spots was named by one evenly split: 3-3 in the House, 1:1 in who ran an informative, able Colorado by a 174 vote margin, network as "most sinister" during the Senate, campaign, election-night coverage. The commer- Democrats lost their bid to unseat Finally, Democrats picked up --Betsy Marsto~ cial portrayed Romer as switching hats to suit his need for financial gain at public expense. The race for U,S, Senate, which SOUTH DAKOTA descended into its own mud-slinging depths, left Democrat Tim Wirth the victor by a slim margin of 51 percent: Reagan's farm policy leads to a defeat 529,056 to 512,828, The Boulder-area na u.s. Senate contest targeted by conservation groups and in the Republican Senate primary. congressman, who spoke out for a between two of the state' s most the Republican was listed as one of the J anklow' s aggressive, sometimes cleaner environment, ran against Ipopular politicians, South Da- Senate's "dirty dozen" by the League ruthless style made him as colorful a ano~h~r,Co~ora~6..congressman, Ken.. kota VOters chose Democratic Con- of Conservation Voters. governor as the state has had. ] anklow K.rLo~):,,-LV·.J.-c-t.,Cl!u .....d 'S'; .. i.:.J,'t~H <.h,,; >..vu himself has offered no clues to his ~er ...,o~ ,ONP1,Q< pn~gs. ;;:",>' '."VJ',~ gres~man"Tom- Daschle "over .,i~cum- Replacing Daschle as 'South Kramer proved an enthusiasric " bent Republican] ames Abdnor. - The Dakota's sole congressman is another future plans, campaigner who carved his turf from final margin was 52 percent to 48 Democrat, Tim Johnson, a 39-year.old Republicans maintained a firm the right wing of the Republican percent, lawyer and state legislator. Johnson grip on the state Senate and House Parry. He enjoyed the support of the Daschle, a 38-year-old four-term easily defeated Republican Dale Bell, and dominated .statewide consrirurion- president, who twice visited the state congressman, had hammered at his who had lost the 1984 congressional al office races. to campaign for him. Reagan's Sept, 8 opponent's support of President race to Tom Daschle. In an important, but overlooked, visit reportedly raised $912,000 for Reagan's farm policies, In response, Though South Dakota has more series of elections, the] ames River Kramer in 90 minutes. Abdnor characterized Daschle as an Republican voters than Democrats, Water Development District Board Reagan told Kramer supporters ultra liberal, out of step with the Bell received only 41 percent of the remains in the hands of those favoring that he would become a "six-year average South Dakotan, This was the vote. He had narrowly won a. bitter large water projects, including ] ames president" if the Republican Parry lost tactic used by Abdnor to oust George primary last summer that left him River modifications. Though oppo- control of the Senate, On election McGovern in 1980. without solid support. Though] ohn- nents to James River degradation night Sen. Gary Hart agreed with that Observers credited the Daschle sOQentered the campaign with far less managed co win one seat, the estimate: The strong Democratic win to a superb ger-out-the-vore effort name recognition, it was Bell's pro-development faction has a six to showing was the' "end of the Reagan and to rural-farm problems under negative image that keyed the victory three majority on the board. The era," he said. national Republican policies, During for the Democrat. The Republican ] ames River District plays a key role in The campaigns cost Wirth and the- final weeks of the campaign, power structure i" the state virtually the development of North Dakota's Kramer approximately $3 million President Reagan visited the state abandoned Bell and focused on Garrison Project, as the James River each, with the lion's share going for twice for Abdnor, tying the incumbent helping Abdnor and George Mickel- in South Dakota may be used as the television commercials. even tighter to the administration's son, the Republican' gubernatorial drainage for that project's return flows Only six of the 391 House of farmiand philosophy. Also, early in candidate. Mickelson won a narrow (HCN, 10/27/86), Voters in South ro=~ the campaign Abdnor remarked that victory over Democrat Lars Herseth, Dakota counties along the river lower farm prices were necessary for a as Republicans retained control of the determine 'the board's directors, time. It was a statement from which he governor's office. Nearly 69 percent of South never completely recovered, and rural Speculation continues regarding Dakota's registered voters participat- voters backed Daschle. the future of outgoing, two-term ed in the 1986 elections, close to the Abdnor, a western South Dakota governor William ] anklow, ] aoklow state's 1974record turnout, and much rancher and former four-term U,S, had passed up probable victory in the higher than the national turnout. congressman, overcame a stiff U,S, House race to challenge Abdnor --Peter Carrels primary challenge from popular Gov. William J anklow to defend his seat against Daschle, With over $6, j million spent in the NORTH DAKOTA Senate race, it was the most expensive campaign in the state's history, One-third of the money came from The farmers take a hand Political Action Committees, "The orth Dakota's farmers ex- The difference, in the end, was amount also likely makes it the pressed their displeasure with minute; less than 2,500 votes, only 0.8 costliest Senate contest (per vote) in N national farm policy by percent, separated the two men. the nation. There were 428,000 voters ousting popular incumbent Republi- Andrews, who served nine terms registered for the election; about can Sen. Mark Andrews. He was in the U,S, House before winning a 290,000 voters actually cast ballots, beaten by underdog Kent Conrad, the Senate seat in 1980, was plagued by . The two candidates spent about $2 a former state tax commissioner. his connection to the Reagan farm vote. Conrad had trailed Andrews by 30 program, But he was also hurt by Environmentalists applauded the points in polls conducted last summer, several events. that tarnished his Daschle victory, Abdnor's. poor Conrad made up the difference"by Tim W,rth environmental voting record had been focusing on rural economic problems. (Continuflti on page 13) Line R ..... nee Target U

l2-High COllntry News .- November 24, 1986

ARIZONA Evan Mecham is governor; McCain replaces Goldwater

ith a low turnout at Ute polls Education. But she was not expected But a month before the election, Bruce Babbitt (HeN, 8/18/86). Me- - and the winner of retiring to have much chance against Schulz re-entered the race as an cham has said he would not have W, Republican Barry Gold- Republican favorite Burton Barr. Independent, saying his daughter had signed the decree. water's Senate seat a foregone Barr's only opposition in the sufficiently recovered. Schulz's cam- Not surprisingly, Republican Rep. conclusion, there were still some big Republican primary was the political paign positions were similar ro John McCain, a two-term congress- surprises in Arizona. In the guberna- longshot Evan Mecham, who entered Warner's,- and he remained a man from Tempe, took Goldwater's torial race, Republican outsider Evan the race with only four months left to registered Democrat. The result was U.S. Senate seat by a 60-40 margin Mecham, a Phoenix car salesman," go. Barr, who had been the state that Schulz's candidacy competed with over Democrat Richard Kimball. beat both a strong Democratic House majority leader for 20 years, Warner's and this allowed Mecham to McCain, who outspent his opponent candidate and a powerful Independent was the choice of the strong edge them both out. Mecham took -40 5-1, was known as a Reagan to claim Ute statehouse. Republican establishment in Arizona. percent of the vote, Warner 35 percent Republican, but was also considered a Arizona is a Republican-dominated He had the endorsement of the chair and Shulz 25 percent. social moderate. Arizona environ- state, but Mecham drew little support of Arizona's Republican party, and A week after the -election there is mentalists say McCain is reasonable from Arizona's Republican machine. newspaper polls put him ahead of an untested man in the Arizona on environmental issues. He pulled off Ute election with only Mecham by more than a 10 point governor's office who has few debts to In congressional races two seats wee key staff members and mostly margin. Yet Mecham won the primary pay and no love for the Arizona opened up and Republicans captured his own money. by a 54 percent to 46 percent margin. Republican and business establish- them both to retain a 4-1 majoriry in Mecham gained the Arizona Mecham's primary upset was seen ments. Mecham will have to work with the Arizona delegation. McCain's governorship through a bizarre turn of by some as a strong message of a two-thirds Republican majority in Phoenix-area berth was taken by events that began a year ago when dissent from Arizona Republicans to both the Arizona Senate and House. Republican John Rhodes, and the 4th Democrat Bill Schulz announced his stare party leaders. According to He will enter office in a time of District seat, vacated by retiring candidacy for governor. Schulz, a environmental activist Dick Karnp, transition for the state, now one of the Republican Eldon Rudd, was won by former Republican worth in excess of Mecham's appeal came because he fastest growing in the nation. Over the another Republican, John Kyle. $57 million, developed task forces of was a maverick and not part of the next year at least one new department Incumbent Republicans _Bob Stump important Arizona citizens to inform Arizona establishment. will be created, the Department 'of and jim Kollie retained their holds on - him on current issues in the state. "He With Barr out of the way and a - Environmental Quality, splintering off Districts '3 and 5. And ' Democrat - generated enthusiasm and was seen schism in the Republican Party, from the Department of Health. New Morris Udall, Arizona's most well- as a favorite to replace Gov. Bruce Arizona Democrats thought they had air- and water-quality legislation is known congressman and chair of the Babbitt, also a Democrat. But Schulz the keys to the governor's office. expected to be enacted, and most Committee on Interior and Insular suddenly withdrew from the race, Warner was predicted to continue people expect a fight with the copper Affairs, easily retained his seat in the citing his daughter's serious illness. Babbitt's policies as governor, and industry over any air-quality heavily Democratic Tucson area. All His sudden exit left Democratic hopes according to Priscilla Robinson of legislation affecting the Douglas and the congressional races were decisive pinned on Carolyn Warner, an Southwest Environmental Services, Magma smelters. The Douglas victories; none of the delegates won experienced administrator and dir- Warner had a strong emphasis on air smelter will close next January less than 65 percent of the vote. ector of rhe state's Department of and water-quality issues. following a decree signed by Gov. --Steve Hinchman

IDAHO oj«~~'~~'l Andrus (barely) elected governor: Symms survives ormer governor and Interior recommendation -to pave a road Andrus is known as a governor bills. Water quality, hazardous - 'Secretary Cecil Andrus through the Frank Church-River of No able to compromise and he is expected materials, mining regulations and F squeaked by Republican Lt. Return Wilderness was just a ploy to to be able to work with both branches water rights are issues that are likely Gov. David Leroy to become governor demonstrate the inadequacy of claims of the Republican-dominated Legisla- to be brought up again when the ofIdaho with a whisper. thin margin of that wilderness attracts tourist.money. ture. The veto-proof majoriry in the legislative session begins in January. victory -- 3,356 votes. In state legislative races the results Senare was broken, which may allow Another major state race that-was were also mixed although the Capitol Andrus to stop some objectionable --John McCarthy touted as being too close to call turned will be more moderate than the last out to be a tight but sure victory for four years. Ken Robison, a solid incumbent Republican Steve Symms. conservationist and publisher of his Symms defeated Gov. John V. Evans own public interest and environmental with 52 percent of the vote. Symms newsletter, Idaho Citizen, won a MONTANA has been consistently one. of the House seat in Boise. No incumbents Senate's "dirty dozen". on environ- with strong environmental _support mental issues: is no friend to lost. But several candidates with An off off-year election wilderness, voted against the recently environmental leanings were not able vetoed bill to strengthen the Clean to dislodge incumbents. allot initiatives took the the University of Montana, said the Water Act and is a strong advocate of spotlight in Montana's elec- populariry of borh initiatives showed the timber industry. Evans didn't Btions this year. For the first that voters are afraid property taxes campaign hard on 'environmental time in 12 years, Montanans did not will rise as state revenue from mineral issues but had the support of mas t vote for a president, governor or taxes declines. environmentalists and sportsmen in senator. They did re-elect two In the race for Congress, Democrat the state. incumbent congressmen, one from Pat Williams beat Don Allen by a Democrat Richard Stallings' reo each parry. 62-38 percent margin and Republican election in the southern 2nd The most controversial initiative on Ron Marlenee beat Buck O'Brien by a 'I Congressional District and Republican the ballot was a proposal to abolish all 53·47 perce,~t margin. Jim Jensen, Larry Craig's re-election in the property taxes .and require voter director of the Montana Environ- northern 1st District, which includes approval of a sales tax or any increase mental Information Center, said he pan of Boise, scrambled any simple' in state income taxes. The Wall Street was surprised O'Brien came so close explanation. Stallings was conserva- Journal called it the country's most to Marlenee in the agricultural eastern tive on many issues but he sought radical tax initiative in history and district. He attributed the closeness to wilderness designation for the Bould- predicted it might pass because of Marlenee's support of Reagan's farm er-White Clouds, which-Andrus also Montana's severe economic condi- policies. sUPPoned and most Idaho Republi- tions. The initiative failed by a 56·44 Control of the state Legislature cans opposed. Stallings won easily percent margin. changed hands, with Republicans against Idaho Falls broadcaster Mel However ,a less radical tax winning a majority in the House. Richardson, who ran as a true-blue initiative passed by 55·45 percent. It Before the election there were 28 Republican. freezes some property taxes at 1986 Democrats and 22 Republicans in the Republican Craig wasn't tired levels unless the next Legislature Senate; the Senate is now split evenly much by opponent Bill Currie, who got reforms the property tax sysrem and 25·25. Split 50·50 before the election, only 33 percent of the vote and whom finds alternative revenue for schools the House now has 49 Democrats and Craig didn't bother to debate. Late in and local governments. Tom Power, 51 Republicans. the campaign, Craig. said his Cedi And'f chair of the, economics department at ··Kate Mc/.,or I Terget lRT-8E4-V2

I \ High Country News i, November.24, 1986-13 NEVADA \ ' ' Laxalt's candidate fails in Senate bid 'Nevada voters elected Demo- area, which is traditionally Democrat- rive, Republican Patty Caffereta. crat Harry Reid to fill retiring ic, while Santini took the less Bryan opposed the proposed nuclear Republican Sen. Paul Laxalt's populated "cow counties" and dump, but has agreed to military seat, despite appeals from both Laxalt northern cities. withdrawals of public lands in Nevada and President Reagan to send a In the congressional elections, for strategic purposes. Republican to the Capitol. Reagan moderate Democrat Jim Bilbray took Bryan will face a divided state made two trips to Nevada.in the week "Reid's vacated lst District House seat, legislature, with a 2·1 Democratic before the election and Laxalt, a 54 percent to 44 percent, defeating majority in the Assembly and slim possible 1988 presidential candidate, Republican Bob Ryan, a former aide to Republican control in the Senate. The campaigned hard for Republican Laxalt. Republican incumbent Barbara new make-up marks a reversal of nominee Jim Santini. The push failed: Vucanovich squashed Reno mayor and previous control over the Legislature. Nevada voters sent Reid to the Senate Democrat Pete- Sferrazza by a 16 In the last session the Nevada by a 52 to 44 percent margin. ~ percent margin to retain Nevada's 2nd Legislature voted against further Democrat Reid, a former repre- Congressional District berth. Sfer- wilderness designation of federal sentative from Nevada's lst Con- razza, a pro-wilderness and disarm- lands in Nevada, and a resolution of gressional District, supported Rea- ament candidate, fared better than. opposition to the proposed nuclear gan's "Star Wars" defense and the anyone expected against Vucanovich, dump never made it out of committee. MX missile. But he opposed the who took a strongly pro-military, However, in the past year a number of proposed siting of a national nuclear pro-nuclear and anti-wilderness surveys have indicated Nevadans Harry Reid waste dump in Nevada. While in stance. The 1st Congressional District consider the Reagan administration's Congress Reid favored a larger Great won by Bilbray represents the Las proposed nuclear waste dump to be million in bonds to buyout property Basin National Park for Nevada and Vegas area, while Vucanovich's the most important issue in the state. ?wners of environmentally sensitive was considered willing to compromise constituency covers the rest of the Nearly 80 percent of the people polled shoreline along the Nevada side of on more wilderness designation for state. in the state said they are opposed to Lake Tahoe. The Tahoe buy-out will Western lands. Santini campaigned on In elections for state -offices, the dump and almost every candidate block development of the lake's the slogan, "The future of the military incumbent Democrat Richard Bryan for office came out against the dump shoreline and prevent possible is the future of Nevada," 'and easily retained his hold on the proposal. siltation. supported Laxalt's no-wilderness bill. governorship, winning 72 percent of Nevada voters also passed a ballot Reid carried the greater Las Vegas the vote. He beat an arch-conserva- issue authorizing the state to sell $70 --Steve Hinchman

built around volunteers drawn from acknowledged New Mexico Conserva- NEWMEXICO / the Sierra Club and other conservation tion Voters Alliance 'chairperson groups. But political observers faulted Lynda Taylor, a Calkin campaign Calkin's campaign for failing to raise adviser. "The next time we have a Carruthers beats Powell more money early on. They also candidate, we should "ranch out and ewMexico environmentalists come up with," said University of New suggested that Calkin was too try to get money from these sources." are assessing the fallout from Mexico political scientist Jay Soren- reluctant to court Democratic political The National Education Associa- Nstinging defeats in Nov. 4 500, an adviser to Calkin campaign leaders and relied (00' heavily on tion endorsed Calkin and gave his. election contests, strategists. -inexperienced volunteers instead of-· campaign $500. But Calkin was forced' Shrugging off conservationists' Calkin, 52, a former national Sierra seasoned parry workers. "There are to rely on small individual contributors attacks, Republican Garrey E. Car- Club president, upset two other other constituencies .. the education for most 'of the $28,000 his campaign ruthers, former assistant secretary of candidates in a June primary to win community, recreation interests, small . had' collected: before the 'election. . the Interior under James G. Watt, the Democratic nomination. As the businessmen interested in state lands . easily captured the race for governor general election campaign got under- -- that we .could have tapped," _.Tom Arrandale and the Republican tide swept way, strategists figured that a former Sierra Club- leader Brant two-to-one Democratic registration Calkin to a close loss in thecampaign- edge in New Mexico could carry him to North Dakota ... could tip the' S~nate into Republican for New Mexico Commissioner of victory over Humphries. But stockmen hands. The House remains solidly Public Lands. and oil and gas interests, alarmed by (Continued from page 11) Republican, at QO-46,. although Carruthers, 47, took 53 percent of the prospect of an environmental Democrats picked up five sea,ts. North the vote to beat Democratic candidate activist controlling state lands, last personal image in a state- that IS very Dakota incumbent G.ov.GeorgeSinner Ray Powell,'a retired Sandia National." ~silf.nmet. began pouring money into puritanical in its approach to politics. is a Democrat. Laboratories executive. Calkin trailed Humphries' coffers. In the campaign's In the most serious, he was linked to a Environmental issues played a Republican William R. Humphries by final weeks, as Calkin still struggled to' secret investigation of the man small role in the voting. The Garrison 1700 or more votes out of 360,000 cast, raise funds, Humphries mounted a Andrews had seen as his toughest Project debate is seen as resolved, and with final returns being tallied. major advertising blitz on television, opponent -- the state's sole congress- both Dorgan and Burdick. portray But the narrow margin amplified radio and billboards. "We got man, Democrat Byron Dorgan. themselves' as strong supporters of the frustration that Calkin's supporters overwhelmed on TV," said John The investigation by a private irrigation and municipal water project. felt after losing to a slick Humphries' Daniel, Calkin's campaign manager. detective revealed that Dorgan's wife If Burdick gains the committee campaign heavily financed by ranch- "Humphries may have spent $95,000 is a Washington lobbyist for Canadian chairmanship, Garrison will benefit. ers and oilmen. "It was a very bad on TV, but we could muster only about timber and mining interests. But the Although traditional environment. defeat, because Brant was one of the $20,000. " investigation hurt Andrews more than al issues were not important, rural strongest candidates we could have Calkin ran a grass-roots style effort Dorgan. In fact, Dorgan, who chose to issues were. Commentators have run again for the House, beat noted that the rural depression didn't Republican opponent Syver Vinje-by a clearly affect most farm state 76·24 percent margin. elections. But it did in the Dakotas. In Incumbents returned to Congress It is now' thought that the North Dakota, that may have been ewMexico's three incumbent was a striking contrast to Republican 44-year-old Dorgan will take on fellow because the Dakota Resource Council congressmen all registered victories statewide with Democrats Democrat, Sen. Quentin Burdick, in a spent many months keeping rural Nresounding re-election. vic- gaining upset victories in the towns of 1988 Senate primary. Burdick, who issues before. the public. tories to retain their seats. Las Cruces, Aztec and, Clovis. will be 80 by then, is fourth in overall Theresa Keavany, head of the By a 2-1 vote, Democrat Bill Republicans lost their slim state Senate senioriry. He figures to become DRC, said the group used candidate Richardson easily defeated former Senate majority to a 21-21 split, which chairman of the Senate Environment forums, letters to the editor, public Gov. Dave Cargo, the last Republican means the Legislature will almost and Public Works Committee. Dor.- meetings and media events to focus on to be governor, from 1967-1971.· certainly dash with conserva-tive gan's apparently unshakable popular._ farm prices, the 19.85Farm Bill, the Republican Manuel Lujan, who has Governor-elect Garrey Carruthers, iry forecasts trouble for Burdick, .a proposed Save the Family Farm Bill, been a congressman for the last 18 who promised "a newbeginning." senator since 1960. If Dorgan does and in-state efforts by energy interests years, easily defeated his Democratic Still undecided in New Mexico is challenge, him, Burdick has indicated to lower taxes on, coal, oil and gas. opponent, Manny Garcia, by ~ 6Q"", the 'rae", .fa, state attorney general. he "m~y,run':-tas an IndeRende-nt' to~~~ ,~,ort\>~llk.,?~a.~.,.ay,,:ry state,~. ",' _I '. , . ~IC,.c~" •. ; ,.._'c-)'" -->., ,. '-" '--" ~'1i.- ...... 1t ..._* .. _ "';j:.,..> "-"_-'-~." ,rw:\l\ percent - ',4Q.,.percent margll)"" OnJY~~J,,~~tgput, of/P?f~ ,}~~? eSQ_~j)~'~:a:1F,lrr~ll1i~~EY-. r~lla:~~-~*,~·l~~§ and .. f'~;l,y,apy ",\tr~~ute.s"North.Da-. " . Republican Joe 'Skeen defeated New' 369,000 cast' separate. the two guarantee victory for' a Republican," '; c; kota's large voter rurnout to the Mexico's current Lt. Gov. Mike candidates, Democrat Bob McNeill Voters may have made historyby prominence. of those issues. The Runnels to gain a fourth straight term, and Republican Al Stratton. Stratton electing a

i Muck that smells like rancid pork C""illac Desert: The American West ed some 'of our biggest cities _. even ,the Great Depression, the Tennessee ,and Its Disappearing Water megalopolises; created great wealth Valley Authority. But the Corps has for, quite a few privileged individuals; what Reisner calls the "nonsensical" Marc Reisner. New York, N. Y.: Viking brought on saline conditions whose Tennessee-Tombigbee boondoggle to Penguin, Inc., 1986. 462 pages. consequences are both visible and its credit. 122.95, cloth. fearful; and continue to drain at an Except for the Ogallala aquifer's ---Reviewed by William Voigt, Jr. accelerating pace aquifers that are sad plight under the Great Plains, being recharged at only an infinitesi- Reisner devotes the greater part of the Perhaps the chief difference mal fraction of the rate of withdrawal, , book to the mountainous West and the between the Bureau of Reclamation leaving the future not in doubt but once-dry regions below the rangetops. and the Corps of Engineers in their merely raising the question of when In BuRec country he leads us to the eagerness to build dams is that BuRec the pumps will quit bringing up water. bedrock of nearly every dam, along builds only in the 17 contiguous states Reisner pays' his respects to the the banks of the reservoirs and beside in the West, while the Corps can put doings of the Corps in the eastern part the canals, past the pumps and them anywhere inside the U.S. of the country where -- usually in the siphons to thirst}' cities and huge Napa Valley wine or nibble a stalk of They are much alike in their holy name of flood control or barge corporate farms. His examination of Imperial Valley celery, or toy with 'a ingenuiry in finding sites where dams navigation -- it has stilled the waters of political and economic forces IS thread of Arizona cotton, convinced can be put. They've been so clever at the major rivers of nearly every state penetrating. that "Uncle and his engineers will this there are few places left for south and west of New England, which Cadillac Desert is not a book to take care of everything; they have posterity, but as a long-gone vice private enterprise got to first. The pass the time with on a lazy afternoon. from the start, and the refreshing president once quoted a COnstituent: Corps has been matched in totality of Read and your mind will churn. But waters of the Columbia and the Yukon "What's posreriry ever done for me?" river conversion only by a creature of maybe you'll have another glass of are waiting. ' • Getting water, cheap and with lots of other people's money, is much of what

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