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Idaho's potato king Proposes 100 power plants

he sound of jaws drop- thereby bypassing the lock elec- 1 - ping could be heard tric utilities such as Pacific Power Tthroughout Idaho after and Light and. Utah Power and the state's richest man, indus- Light have on transmission. trialist J .R. Simplot, announced At the time, however, the in late December that he wants firm did not mention a fleet of to build 100 coal-fired power coal-fired plants. But,even with- plants along the Snake River over out the coal plants, southern the next 50years. California utilities have never Simplot said he hoped to indicated they are interested in begin building two 1,000. purchasing power from Idaho. megawatt plants a year starting In addition to doubts about in the 1990s, turning Idaho into the market for huge amounts of an energy farm for the Sourwest, electricity, there is also a ques- . "You try to project this' out 50 . tion about Simpler's ability to years and you get something. so convince Idaho to accept the big you can't imagine;" Simplot plants. Bruce Bowler, a Boise told an Idaho Statesman reporter, attorney and environmentalist, "(In) 5Qyears, we would have a said, "I think it's insane ... In hundred .. a hundred .. 1,000. today's context of things, (Sirn- megawatt plants in Idaho on this plot's plan) is so completely river. " incredible for so many reasons I Simplot, the self-made billion- can't cite them all." . aire who heads a world-wide A major obstacle is water. agribusiness company, said the The plants would require cooling coal burning plants will be part water out of the Snake, and more of his newly-formed Western water would be needed to run' a Power, Inc. The company an-, coal-slurry pipeline to carry coal nounced its intention to develop from mines in Wyoming to the numerous hydro sites in Idaho plants along the Snake. Bowler last June, and to then ship that said demand for Snake River power to the Southwest through a water is already too high. Heart Lake in Idaho's Mallard· Larkins 'Wilderness Study Area transmission line it would build, (Continued on page 14) Idaho wilderness bill Andrus .and McClure agree

OISE,' Idaho .. Sen. major national group concerned James McClure and Gov. with wilderness, The Wilderness BCecil Andrus released an Society, has decided to leave it. Idaho wilderness bill late in 1987 .Tom Robinson, the.group's inter- that has things for everyone to mountain regional director" in love and hate, But.on- balance, Boise, said the opposition of timber .companies ana.' off·road- 'McClure and Andrus to any vehicle users appear to have the changes in the bill "left us no most to love, and conservationists alternative but to oppose it." appear to have the most to hate. TWS also said the 1.4 million lei round numbers, the bill acres was not a large. enough would designate 1.4 millionacres share of the 9.3 million acres of as wilderness and another unroaded national forest land 300,000 acres as subject to eligible for wilderness. Moreover, special management. The reo TWS said, several provisions of mainder of the immense 9.3 the bill would threaten existing million acres of roadless land in wilderness. Idaho would get "soft release" .. "There are matters of princi- if it were still roadless in 10 to 15 pie and precedence at stake," years, it could be reconsidered said Steve.Richardson, TWS chief for...wilderness. The proposal is counsel in Washington, D.C. far smaller than the 3.9 million .'This proposal .contains provi- acre billintroduced by Rep. Peter. sions and language that are , Kostmayer, D:Pa., on behalf' of simply inconsistent with the ,~ conservationists . purposes and inrent of the 1964 ..McClure and Andrus'rele'ased ..WildernessAcr.', their privately crafted bill on a The disposition of Idaho's 9.3 j.R. Simplot take it or leave it basis. The (Continue/on page 12) l

=~- Andy Bartson sent in six back issues of HCN, including a rare one (in 'this office) containing Utah Creaky rancher Cecil Garland's article. on This is the first issue after' our stream reclamation. Andy also prom- Christmas break, and creaking into ises to subscribe "when I get an action was difficult. Most of the address." problem was psychological: a fear Spring in South Dakota that two weeks of soft living may have lost us the ability to put out a Pete Carrels, our South Dakota paper. There is also a reluctance to bureau person, called on Jan. 8 to subject ourselves again 'to the say, "It's up to eight degrees below discipline imposed by HCN's every- here -- it's like spring. I went out in ; ",tG.J" ... other-week schedule. Those who my shirt sleeves." produce daily or weekly newspapers On the same day, we spoke with HighCoUPtryl\ews will feel little sympathy. Mark Gordon in Kaycee, Wyo. He HIGH COUNTRY NEWS QSSN/OI91/l6l7) We have not yet precisely toted reported clear, sunny skies even i. published biweekly, except for one issue up the Research Fund results, but it though it was storming in Colorado during July and one i••ue duringJanuary, 'by and most of Wyoming. Kaycee, he the High Country News Foundation. 124 is clear that, despite the stock Lee Sayre Grand Avenue, Paonia, Colorado 81428. market crash, readers gave gen- explained, is outside of Wyoming's Second-dais pottage paid at Paonia, Colo- erously. We topped last year's total snowbelt. We had thought you had the former owner is a Paonia police rado. by a modest amount, and thanks to to be outside Wyoming to be outside POSTMASTER: Send address changes to officer named David Duncan, and in HIGH COUNTRY NBWS, Box 1090. Paonia. that increase, to more subscription its snowbelt. December, Mr. Duncan gave Donna CO 81428. income, and to a jump in grants Tom Bell Western Colorado's valleys, es- a ticket for allowing her dog to run at a"itor B",_rihls HCN will be here through 1988. A pecially HCNs North Fork Valley, is large when the dog showed up at his more detailed report will follow. In experiencing its first real winter home. Ed Mareton the meantime, thank you again for since 1977-1978.There is much snow Donna explained the circum- P.6Jis." your generosity. on the ground, and below zero stances to town judge Lynn French, Betsy Muston temperatures at night, with day-time but was still hit with a sizable fine. BJilor Honoring the living temperatures rarely reaching above Donna then told officer Duncan that The Bulletin Board section of the 20 degrees. We can no longer boast she couldn't afford such fines, 'and Judy Moffa~ of going outside in shirt sleeves D.fI_IopM_.' Nov. 23., 1987, issue announced a that if she got another ticket, she scholarship honoring noted Wyoming during winter days. Luckily, because was going to have his former dog Rocky Barker western Colorado lacks wind, we are killed. "He looked surprised," she Craig Bigler geologist David Love. That notice provoked a telephone call from a spared the "monster snowdrifts" the said, "and asked me not to do that." Peter Carrels Denver Post headlined recently as Bruce Farling person in Vermont who had heard Donna is very good-natured, which is Pat Ford .that we had announced Love's death. devouring the state's eastern plains. how she ended up with Duncan's . -'.",. - _-~atric!aGuthrie unwanted dog in the first place, and <: :We reread the. Bulletin Board notice Proud in Boulder Jitp Sriik probably won't have it killed. Regional Bereaes several times to be sure it had not implied such a thing. It hadn't. The Eric and Sara Lundgaard want us Welcome help C.L. Rawlins confusion may have been caused by ro know that not all Boulder PQdry Stlitor. the fact that we are unused to contributors to the Research Fund Readers promptly receivmg our honoring the living. are residents of Boulder, Colo. "We snappy-looking HCN t-shirts can Steve Hinchman live very happily in' Boulder City, thank a volunteer in the Paonia. BtiitotWIlR_s_.rr:/) Assuming the worst , ~" " -'; -.... " -.,..; - .',....; --:- .Nevada, and are.extremely proud of"; ,::.•office, _.S~6..is.:I:e~,;Sayre,,' who: 'just Michael Crawfordr Dr. David R. Robinson of North our little community of 12,DODnextto moved to the valley from- Colorado ., Gus Wilmerding Miami, Fla., has nor. endeared ·HoovetDam."· Springs; Colo..A..long'Jime: reader of I"terns himself to us. He filed a complaint the paper, Lee stopped in recently to against HCN with the U.S. Postal Reclaimed office ask if we needed some volunteer Roo.Sunderland D.r4rooM Service for allegedly failing to run HCN's. toxic office is now oc- help. his ad even as we took his money. cupied. The Pittsburgh Paint labora-: "I just assumed all non-profit C.B. Elliott We had run his ad, but hadn't sent tory told us they had found an organizations needed volunteers," Cirr:"J.h'o"IProtl.clio. him a copy of the .issue with the ad irritant in the paint we put on the she said. Restraining an urge to in it. That's our oversight. But we're office in very early November. shout hooray, we agreed that any . Peg-iYRobinson help was welcome. GNpbicsITyp,s,tli"g puzzled as to why he would file an Staffers C.B. Elliott and Steve official complaint with the Post,Office Hinchman discovered the irritant Lee tells us she visited the Paonia Mary Moran without first calling or writing to us. without the help of a lab -- they were area last fall out of curiosity. "I'd C.",,,sp,..." tI,sig.s His ad was for a book of poems. unable to work in the room for long heard or. the town and wanted to see without headaches and other prob- it. I thought it was a jewel." Finding Claire Moore-Merrill Founding Fathers goofed lems. people friendly, houses inexpensive Protl.clio" Reader Dennis Burns of Salt Lake Pittsburgh Paint paid to have two and her nerve .adequate, Lee said Donna Gregory City attended the first annual meet- coats of latex enamel applied to the she retired early from office work B.si,,_ss ing of the "Blue Ribbon Coalition -- walls, and that has sealed out the and 3D-plus years of life in a city. Tom Bell, LDnder, WY. the Voice of Western Outdoor irritant for the moment. We would Now .rrying to dig out a vegetable Michael CI8fk, Washingto", D.C. Jobo Drilcoll, H.II". MT Recreation," held late last year in . rather have the stuff removed .from patch from a backyard field of rocks, )effFeced:"y, Bois_ ID· Salt Lake City. One participant, the walls, but the use of gallons of Lee said, "If I can make peace with TomFrance. Muso,,'" MT Burnswrites, said, solvent in the middle of 'winter has the rocks, all will be well." SallyGordon, K.yc" WY its own problems. Although we wish Bill Hedden, Mon err "We have a constitutional right Long necked' Adl.Dl.Mclane, H./lII. MT to use our ATVs on the public lands, the situation had never occurred, we Kate Missett, B"II"'o WY as stated in the Bill of Rights. Small were pleasantly surprised that the Peter Maier, featured in an HCN Ganett Ray, Fort CoI/i"s CO PatrickSweeney. BiJIi•• s MT groups of environmentalists are' try- paint company owned up to· the story ("Goliath one, David zero") HermanWllCIb,a".igN"t MT ing to take this right away from us." problem and took responsibility for this fall by Steve Hinchman on AndyWieltner. D.;'tI',. CO, Burns says, "I reread the Consti- solving it. sewage treatment problems in the Roben Wiamaton, Bo"~,,. CO~ . We are grateful again to Howard Salt Lake City area, is now a giraffe. BtHlN 0/ Dirlclors tution and the Declaration of Inde- Articles appearing in Higb Co""try N,fIIs pendence a few months. ago, and I Scott of Moab, Utah, for periodically Editor Betsy Marston nominated him ue indexed in S,,,,iro.,..,,,,,, Pniotlicllis don't recall reading that part." sending us edited excerpts from Dear to the Giraffe Project for sticking his Bi6liogNphy, EnvironmentalStudies Institute Probably what the conference partici- Friends. Our main offense: disagree- neck out. 2074 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara' California 93103. ' pant meant to say was that, had ment of cedents and antecedents. According to the award letter sent All rights to publication of anicl~s in tbis ATVs existed in the 18th century, the A dog story out by Giraffe Project executive· issue' ue reserved. Write for permission to Founding Fathers would have added director John Graham, "Giraffes are print any anicles or illustrations. Contribu- tions (manuscripts, photos, artWork)will be another right: "Government shall' not One of our valued employees is "ordinary people who show extraor· we.lcomed with the understanding that the abridge the people's right to ride Donna Gregoty -- a Paonia native dinary courage, compassion and editors cannot be held respon.ible for loIS or and utility infielder at HCN. She commitment for the good of others." damage. E~close a .elf·addressed stamped ATVs." envelope- with ail unsolicited submillions to makes deposits to the checking Maier's stoty will be part of a ensure return. Articles and letters will be Send US your names account, pays writers, works _in' the monthly radio script sent out to 120' published and edited ,It the discretion of the editors. . We thank Rich Schieb~l of Dallas, mailroom, and doe~ 'other tasks on a member stations of the Giraffe Advertising, information is available upon Texas, for the list of 13 Dallas area part-time basis. Broadcast Service. He will also be request. To have & aample copy aent to a residents he thinks are potential Several months ago, Donna was written up in Tbe Giraffe Gazette. friend, send UI his or her addult. Write to subscribers. We 'shall send them good enough to accept a dog that The national group can be contacted Box 1090. Paonia, Colorado8142&:. Call Hi./) Co."'r:Y Nft/s in Coloradoat 303"27-4898. sample copies. If you know people needed a good home. Unforrunlltely, at: Giraffes West, P.O. Box 7)9, . Subscriptions are' '20 per year for who might be interested in HCN, we .the dog missed its original owner, Langley, Whidbey Island, WA 98260. individuW. U8 per year for institutions. who lived down Ihe street, am;!would Single copies U.OO plua '1.2' postlae and would appreciate their names and handling. L addresses. on occasion runl~ome. ~v~n w~rse, --the staff I February 1; 1988 -- High Country News-3

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Downwinders lose The Supreme Court on Jan. 11 blasted the last hopes of 1,200 residents of Utah, Arizona and Nevada. They had hoped for compen- sation for cancers and other diseases allegedly caused by radioactive fall- out during a decade of. atomic I testing. The court's unanimous deci-

sion not to hear the I. downwinders'" case lets stand a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the federal government has sovereign immunity from damages caused by its testing of over 100 atomic bombs in the 19~Osand 1960s at the Nevada Test Site (HCN, 7/6/87). The decision Grand Tetons in Wyoming was based on a technical "clause in the Federal Tort Claims Act giving .,~yo1l.1ing_ moves to protect its clear air the Jederal government immunity for -...... - ": ". - , - ., - '- '.. "--. -~",. '-, ,. .' :- .decisions made at its own discretion. .Wyoming's Department of Envi.' fused," says Collins. "'They had ."haze, and 'the state is required to It ends eight years of legal battles ronmental Quality has proposed new their opportunity to do it through the draft a three-year strategic plan to and leaves the downwinders in the air quality regulations to protect EPA and missed, and now they want clean the air. Class I sites in same leaky boat as uranium miners I visibility in and around its national me to do it," Wyoming include Yellowstone and sheepmen, atomic vets and Nevada parks and wilderness areas. Collins says just reviving the Grand Teton national parks, and the Test Site employees. All have been The new regula-!ions would pro- project is controversial enough and Washakie, Bridger, Fitzpatrick, denied compensation by the courts. tect Class I areas (parks and he doesn't want to torpedo the idea North Absaroka and Savage Run The Utah congressional delegation wilderness) from any perceivable by going too far. wilderness .areas. . now hopes to move the fight into change in appearance, color and If a site becomes protected under The proposed visibility regula- Congress. Utah·Rep. Wayne Owens, distance that would interfere with a the integral vistas plan, it would tions are part of a whole set of new D, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R, say they visitor's experience. The proposal is follow the same rules as protected air quality regulations for Wyoming will soon introduce bills to alter the considered non-controversial, says Class I areas. An analysis must be designed to bring the state up to Tort Claims Act to eliminate the Wyoming Division of Air Quality made that the visual impairment is federal EPA standards. Alsoincluded loophole government lawyers used to adminisrrator Chuck Collins, because significant and has a measurable are regulations governing smoke win the downwinders' case. That will it matches existing federal law. impact on a visitor's experience stack heights at industrial plants and .make it easier for furore suits But included in the proposed before a polluter can be required to the use of asbestos. All but the charging government negligence, but regulations is a highly controversial take measures to clean its emissions. integral vistas plan are already in will be too late to aid the fallout plan to give state and federal land If there is no known source, the force; as mandated by the EPA. victims. The two lawmakers say they managers the authority to identify pollution is classified as regional -Steve Hinch"",';" .are debating introducing a bill to and protect "integral vistas." That compensate radiation victims, but would protect outstanding views of say experience shows compensation surrounding terrain seen from within Utahn is accused of ecotage bills seldom pass. Meanwhile, in St. parks or wilderness. The man arrested for vandalizing officials" did some outrageous George, Utah, the largest town to be The integralvistas concept, which bulldozers on the Burr Trail in Utah things.'/ These included obtaining heavily hit by fallout, citizens have goes beyond federal 'req uirements, (HCN, 12/31/87) says he is innocent search warrants with sweeping pow- opened'a cancer center in conjunc- could turn into a political football, and the victim of Garfield County ers and first setting bail at $250,000, tion with the local hospital and have Collins recently told the Casper officials. which was higher than that set for founded a memorial library to help Star- Tribune, He expects resistance Grant Johnson, 31, who has lived Mark Hoffman, accused of murder- cancer victims cope with the disease. to integral vista' protection from for 11 years at Deer Creek Ranch ing two people in Salt Lake City last industry, which regards it as a bordering the dirt road, told the Salt year, Bradshaw says. restriction to future growth. Lake Tribune he was arrested Environmental groups seem to BAPillS The ability to identify and protect i because he adamantly opposes a have distanced themselves from [I integral vistas has existed nationwide paved Burr Trail. "I, of course, J ohpson, who is now out on bail. A moment of truth in the ""non's capitol. ~ since the EPA began its integral wouldn't have anything to do with Close friend Sue Fearon says' she [I Utah Sen. Jake Garn lashed out vista program in 1980. Over the next vandalism." thinks groups are afraid to 'back at a roomful of lobbyists recently, five years many vistas were identi- Johnson faces over a dozen Johnson for fear they might be-seen fied, says Collins, but because of charges for allegedly pouring anti- as endorsing 'environmental sabo- saying: "Frankly, ladies and gentle- . " .adverse political pressure only one freeze into the fuel tanks of four tage. men, I'm getting sick of you and the received protected status. The En- bulldozers and possessing drugs with Johnson's attorney adds that his whole game." ; } I' vironmental Protection Agency drop- the intent to sell them. Police' found ~lient has 'been feuding :witb·Clive Oh, for the days when economic ped the program in 198~. close to a pound of marijuana, small Kincaid of the Southern Utah Wilder- development in small toums meant ~" The Air QualityDivision'. propos- amounts of LSD, psyilocybin mush- ness Association for some ro-;,e. setting up a speedtrflp. " al would revive the vista program in ' rooms and .a set of scales in his To help pay for legal fees, Fearon Three neighboring towns in east- Wyoming under state law, but does trailer. says a Grant Johnson Defense Fund ern Idaho -- Rigby, Rexburg- and not identify any sites for protection. Johnson's lawyer, Jim' Bradshaw has been established at Box 1373, Blackfoot -- are competing for the "The Forest Service asked me to of Salt Lake City, said in a telephone Sandy, U'I' 84070. right to promote themselves to identify integral vistas, but Ire-. interview that in their zeal county ..-Gus Wilmerding tourists as "spud centers:' 4-High Country News -- February I, 1988 HOTLINE Two western states, still in collider race

The West is still in the running 7/6/87) less than '0 miles away Utah scientists and students, as well for the Superconducting Super Col- could hurt the state's chances. as .an allotment of jobs during the lider. Neither the DOE nor the acade- atom-smasher's $3.2 billion construc- Of the 11 sites proposed by nine mies' panel mentioned why the other tion phase, reports the Deseret Western states, one near Phoenix, ·28 proposed sites were disqualified, News. . Ariz., and another outside Denver, but the DOE has offered to explain The reduction in rhe number of Colo., advanced to the Department of to those states where they fell down. states means the project has reached Energy's list of eight finalists in the Losing states in the West voiced a critical phase. Fewer eligible states intense national competition for the their disappointment, but all said means there are fewer politicians $6 billion project. they would listen to the DOE's interested in the project who will The six other sites also recom- criticisms. Idaho even sent SSC support its massive budget in the mended as "best qualified" by the project coordinator Rick Tremblay face of soaring national debts. In National Academies of Science and back to Washington to rebut the addition, some academics are ques- Engineering are: Batavia, Ill., Stock- DOE's decision to nix the stare's tioning the use of half the money the bridge, Mich., Raleigh, N.C., Nash- proposed site near the Idaho National U.S. spends annually on science on ville, Tenn., Dallas, Texas, and Engineering Laboratory. just one project. Rochester, N.Y. "They put the ornamental ahead The debate will start in earnest in Shortly after the list was an- of the scientific," Tremblay told the February, when President Reagan's nounced, New York Gov. Mario Idaho Falls Post-Register. He argued 1989 budget goes to Congress. Cuomo pulled 'his state from the that the DOE emphasized the social, Energy Secretary ] ohn Herrington running because of local opposition recreational and cultural qualities says he expects to ask for $3'0 to the project. needed in order to attract scientists million for the super collider. This The Superconducting Super Col-· to the facility. But, Tremblay says, year's request of $35 million was cut Mecham is besieged Iider is a huge machine designed to DOE's idea of amenities stopped at back to $2' million; most observers propel nuclear particles around a the opera and excluded things like expect at least similar cuts in the Arizona's Republican Gov. Evan ring B miles in circumference to the opportunity to hike or ski in 1989 request. Mecham continues to make headlines collide at speeds just under the Idaho's beautiful White Clouds or Proponents hope to push the as he faces impeachment hearings, speed of light. Scientists hope the Sawtooth Mountains. project through by maintaining its arraignment on criminal charges and device will recreate conditions similar Even though they are out of the broad base of support. Science News, a potential recall election. The state's to those' occurring at the moment the _ running, many Western states hope reporting on the national SSC sym- Republican Parry has now disowned universe was created in an explosion to get at least a small bang out of posium held in Denver last Decem- Mecham, and four Republican mem- . they call the Big Bang. The DOE and the project by supporting Colorado ber, wrote, "The symposium seemed bers of the state's congressional' project backers say the collider is and Arizona over Eastern contend- to be part of an attempt to build an delegation recently asked him to necessary if the V.S. is to keep pace ers. Wyoming Gov. Mike Sullivan intellectual and political coalition of resign.. They said the legal and with scientific discoveries abroad has already thrown his weight behind an unprecedented sort. " political turmoilsurrounding him has (HCN,8/17/87). Colorado because, he told the Casper On a smaller scale, the states in virtually paralyzed, the state; reports Twenty-five states submitted pro- Star-Tribune, "having the SSC in the West may be employing the AP. In January, the Arizona .srare posals for 36 sites -- a total of 13 Colorado would produce spinoff same strategy. Says Arizona's Rus- legislature began impeachment pro- tons of. documents. A panel of 21 benefits for Wyoming and our entire sell, "All of us in the West have ceedings against Mecham. Hearings scientists drawn 'from the national region." worked on developing a coalition were based on evidence from a grand academies narrowed it down to eight A spokesperson for Utah, Randy from the beginning. It's important jury, which indicted the Governor on sites. The panel, which did not rank Moon, said he will approach Arizona that we keep (the SSC) in the West. six felony charges of fraud, perjury their recommendations, said. while and Coloradoasking .whl'J_it',s_~0!fh If we don't' get it, we hope Colorado and filing false documents that geology and technical considerations to have Utah's support. Among the will g~t'i't:·"· -O;'WI", il(,riil~C; ~1:Ht-~ ::;I'n1 "'. . - t;- ,~ ,'" . concealed a $3'0,000 Campaign loan. were die most important criteria for promises Utah expects are a guaran- Mecham has also been accused of the project, recreational opporruni- teed number of faculty positions for -Steve Hinchman illegally borrowing $80,000 in state ties, jobs for spouses and communi- funds to help his car dealership. If ty support were also decisive factors convicted on any charges he would in its decision. West loses two high-tech projects automatically be thrown out of office, The blue-ribbon panel asked the Two high-tech development pro- million V.S. Wesr relecornmunica- and, if convicted on all counts, could DOE, which will make the final jeers coveted by Western government tions research laboratory (HCN, face up to 23 years in prison. selection, to keep those. criteria high . and business leaders have slipped 11/9/87). However, even this guar- Meanwhile, the recall Mecham cam- on the list. "A variety of cultural and their grasp. anteed victory for the region was lost paign says it has gathered 3'0,000 recreational opportunities, as well as_ The Sernatech consortium recent- when a federal court in Washington, signatures. That is more than the openness to various lifestyles is Iy selected Austin, Texas, for its D.C., forced the regional telephone number of votes the Governor. highly desirable for the diverse -- research and development labora- company to scale back its plans. received in his 1986 election. Once , and international -- group of people the signatures are certified, Arizona tory. The cooperative research sta- The court, which oversaw the who will be in residence," the panel tion, expected to have a $2'0 million divestiture of AT&T, ruled that U.S. Secretary of State Rose Mofford must said in its report to the DOE, offer Mecham a chance to resign. If annual budget and create 800 jobs West and the other regional tele- according to AP. and up to 2,100 spinoff jobs, will try phone companies carved from Ma he refuses, Mofford will schedule a Colorado and Arizona officials are recall election within 120 days. to develop tiny computer chips. Bell may not engage in design and ecstatic over their victory, but Thirty-four states across the nation· production of telecommunications Mofford, a Democrat, would succeed acknowledge that the race is just Mecham if he leaves office. submitted 13' proposals to lure the products, nor manufacture equip- beginning. Leaders in both states say project. Arizona, New Mexico, Colo- ment for use in a customer's home. Utah takes a stand they have the geology, academic and rado, Oregon and Califorttia were As a result, U.S. West will only build business communities and the quality among 12 semi-finalists. a $20 million facility, employing '00 The white supremacist group of life to be serious contenders. In another race, this one confined employees instead of 1,'00. Aryan Nations has been talking The next step is a massive to 14 Western states, Boulder, Colo., about starting a chapter in Utah for environmental impact statement that was selected as the site for the $50 -Steoe Hinchman weeks. Now they may think twice. will look at each site's' soil condi- State Rep. Grant Protzman, 0- tions, ecology, air and water quality, Ogden, has sponsored a bill designed and socio-economic impacts. Arizona to discourage the group from com-. SSC project liaison Dr. Ray Russell ing. While his bill guarantees says although the DOE will be HOTLINE protection of the right to free speech, responsible for writing the study, he ir also purs the Urah House of expects Arizona to spend $400,000 to Wyoming's Leslie Petersen will not run Representatives unanimously on $'00,000 to gather information. That record as opposing any physical comes in addition to the $U million Wyonting Democrat Leslie Peter- sidered a Democratic' front-runner harassmenr or violence direcred the state already spent on its initial sen announced she will not challenge but said she is unwilling to surrender against individuals based on race, proposal. Republican Malcolm Wallop for the her privacy or Wyoming nome to live religion or ancestry, Protzman, in the The DOE will begin by holding V.S. Senate seat this year. Petersen, in Washington, D.C. Deseret News, says a lesson can be scoping meetings to ask citizens a Dubois native who is currently learned from Idaho, where the Aryan living adjacent to each site what chair of the Teton County Commis- Nations is currently based. Protzman issues _should and should' not be sion; has been active in Wyoming says people think Idaho is receptive included in the study. Meetings will environmental politics for two de- to racist views because no one spoke' be held Feb. 9 in Tempe, Ariz., and cades. In the 1970s she presided over . There must be some misttlke. out against the group soon enough. Feb. 12 in Ft. Morgan, Colo. Nothing the Wyonting Outdoor Foundation, Adding to the smog in Los Protzman's bill passed the House controversial is expected for Arizona, forerunner to the High Country Angeles is a heavy dose of mari- unanimously on Jan. 18, Martin but in Colorado some residents say a Foundation, which owns High juana, says the Asthma and Allergy Luther King Day, and is expected to proposal by Browning-Ferris, Inc., to Country News'i and the Wyonting Foundation of America, which sam- breeze through the Senate. build a toxic waste landfill (HCN, Outdoor Counci]. Petersen was con- pled airborne pollen, AP reports. February 1, 1988 -- High Country News-)

.Delay, delay, delay u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Frank Dunkle says he will use every bureaucratic means at his disposal to delay reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park, reports Andrew Mdnykovych, a columnist with the Casper' Star- Tribune. Talking to the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, Dunkle said reintroduction was an idea cooked up by the Park Service to

I 'undo the disastrous conditions it has created in the park by years of mismanagement of elk and bison herds." He suggested that hunting was a better solution. Dunkle added jhar he is not about to allow wolves to be reintroduced into Yellowstone unless Park Service officials prove they -can manage wildlife to his satisfaction. If Congress passes a bill to force reintroduction, Dunkle prom· ised to defy the law however he can, Fungicide spill on the Liltle Salmon River including. using hearings, environ- mental assessments and" permits as stall tactics. "If you've seen bureau- cracy in action you know the Glacier Truck accident devastates- Idaho fishery (National Park) wolves are likely to reach Yellowstone before the paper- Idaho's Department of Fish and highways better know that if they transportation services for the Idaho work is done," Dunkle said. Game pas J)~el) .looking fa! fish.__on have an accident and foul our water, Transportation Department. ,he Little -S~l~~n River~, but -so far they will pay toj:'lelt" it ~p," An~s _':1he t, spill- prompted the Snake the results are grim. said. . -- , River AJliance to point out that if the "We're not finding very many," It took environmental cleanup Special Isotope Separation facility is said Don Anderson, resident fish- crews four days of work in sub-zero built in southeast Idaho, trucks eries manager for Fish and Game in temperatures to pull' all the barrels hauling nuclear waste from Hanford, McCall. out of the rivet. The truck was Wash., also could crash along U.S. Anderson and his associates have removed after the second day. 95 and contaminate the Little Sal- been working non-stop for nearly a Andrus said state officials would mon. month to quantify damage from what investigate the possibility of restrict- "We can -all breathe a .sigh of Idaho officials call one of the state's ing semi-truck use of U.S. 95 -- relief that the truck that crashed on worst toxic spills. An Arkansas-based known as a goat trail among highway the Little Salmon River was car.rying tractor-trailer rig carrying 3,700 workers -- during certain hours and Vitavax and not 'feed' for the gallons' of the fungicide Vitavax weather conditions. But he noted SIS plutonium refinery," said al- catapulted off U.S. 95 at about 5:30 that a complete ban would violate liance spokeswoman Liz Paul. a.m. Dec. 19, flipping into the Little federal interstate commerce laws. "If that had been plutonium, Salmon, a prime sreelhead and U.S. 95 is the only north-south Riggins' water would not have been salmon spawning area. route through Idaho's rugged inter- fit to drink for 24,000 years (approx- Some 25, 55-gallon. drums of ior. The narrow two-lane highway imate half-life of plutonium), and the Vitavax ripped through the trailer's winds along the Little Salmon and fish kill could have. extended side upon impact, leaking about 500 other streams for most of its route. throughout the entire Salmon and gallons of the deep-magenta liquid. "The spill showed that the road is Columbia rivers," Paul said. Tbree-wbeelers banned into the river and killing thousands not as safe and effective as it should A federal lawsuit to stem the of fish. be," said Hugh Lydston, chief of -Steve Steubner rising death toll among young riders "It's the biggest fish kill I've of three wheeled all-terrain vehicles ever seen," said Anderson, a Fish was settled when manufacturers and Game veteran of 18 years. The agreed. to stop selling their most biologist said he has worked six toxic Montana's big, dirty skies dangerous model and provide free spills in Idaho. The worst of those, a safety training to buyers. The Dec. 1· diesel spill of 2,800 gallons, caused a Because the big skies over ~even Sternberg says that the three-year 30 agreement, negotiated by the 100 percent fish kill in 1983. That Montana communities have become deadline is flexible because the industry, Justice Department and wreck, which occurred only a couple brown, the EPA says the towns are communities are still in the process Consumer Product Safery Commis- miles from last month's .spill. The likely to violate federal air qualiry of identifying sources of airborne sion, also requires the makers to Vitavax "hit all the species," Ander- standards this year. The agency pollutants smaller than 10 microns, change marketing techniques aimed son said, including wild steelhead recently directed the cities and towns which is of most concern to the at children. Critics among medical and salmon smelts. The fish ate to develop plans for cleaning up their EPA. Most of the pollutants are from groups, Congress and consumers valuable, with the Bonneville Power dirty air. woods rove smoke and winter road- said the agreement should have Administration spending $25-35 mil- Missoula, Kalispell, Butte, Ro- sanding, and are often exacerbated recalled all ATVs, refunded owners lion a year to rescue salmon and nan, Polson, Libby and Lame Deer by winter inversions. and banned future sales. An es- steelhead runs. "The recovery of the were flagged by the Environmental Missoula and Libby are the most timated 2.3 million ATVs are in use, wild population has been set back fot Protection Agency as "Group I" advanced in terms of developing and in me past five years, more than several generations, '.' Anderson said. communities , a classification identify. plans, says Sternberg. To insure 900 people -- -many of them children ing each as having a 95 percent public involvement in the plans, each -- have been killed and dose to 7,000 Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus deliv- chance of violating federal air qualiry community should form advisory hospital-treated injuries are reported ered a stern message a week after standards. According to Stan Stern- committees that include interests as monthly. Wyoming State Sen.. and the spill, saying the state would seek berg of' the Montana State Air diverse as wood stove dealers and rancher Charles Scott, however, told damages from the trucking firm, Qualiry Bureau, each will have three 'public Iie~lth officers, Sternberg the press. that the ban on three- Southern Refrigerator Transport, and years to implement a pollution says. wheelers will "make irrigation in possibly the driver. "People who reduction plan upon determination of Wyoming that much more ineffi- haul dangerous materials oyer our the sources of.the dirty air. --Bruce Farling cient ." T ,

6-High Country News -- Febrtiary 1, A dump for Nevada ,~ HOTLINE Just before Christmas, Congress NEAT STlIFF approved Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the only site suitable for the REFORESTATION, RECLAMATION, Boost for Yellowstone WINDBREAK, shelterbelt and wildlife nation's first permanent high-level habitat plantings. Drip irrigation sys· and Teton parks ,nuclear waste dump. Nevada politi- terns. Southern and Central Rockies. Entrance fees at Yellowstone and cians vigorously opposed that choice Meristem Nursery, Box 698, Redwing , Colo.81066, 303/74612290,(4x20) Grand Teton, national parks will even though the state might receive " .•c~,/: double April 1. President Reagan $20 million a year in federal money LOOKIrolG.FOR A SPECIAL BOOKI signed a bill increasing the entrance ,Down from tbe bills once the repository begins to accept Creekside Books handles books for all fees to $10 per vehicle for a wastes. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, ages and interests. Besides a large West Yellowstone, Wyo., had a selection in stock, we will special order seven-day pass just before Christ- visit from a wild stranger recently. D·La., the man who engineered the any in-print book or search for OP titles. mas. This is expected to generate an Down from the hills in Yellowstone December 17 decision, apparently Mention this ad and get free shipping. additional $3.3 million for Yellow- National Park wandered a bighorn won support by focusing on econorn- We will also gift wrap and send your stone and $1:3 million for Grand sheep. Townspeople gaped and doz- ics and regional politics. He said holiday present to a third party. Call, Teton. In the past, park fees went ens reached for their cameras, eliminating two other possible sites write or visit CREEKSIDEBOOKS,P,O. directly to the Land and Water Box 1234, Buena Vista, Colorado 81211, reports the West Yellowstone News. in Washington state and Texas would 303/395.64t6. Open Mon.·Sat. (3x23p) Conservation Fund, responsible for Unfazed, it rambled through town save $3.9 billion, and canceling recreation and land acquisition on until a pack of dogs challenged it on language in the 1982 Nuclear Waste NEW COLORADOWATER PUBLICA- the state and national level. Under the street. The ram then fled to the Policy Act calling for a second TION: Introduction to Colorado Water , the new bill engineered by Wyoming shelter of the Fly Fishing Museum repository in the East would save Problems emphasizing water use. For where he grazed out back for most of even more. According to the Con- information write: Trans Mountain De- Rep. Richard Cheney, R, ~O percent velopment Co. P.O. Box 823, Dept. HC, of the fees collected will remain in a sunny day. When it returned the gressional Quarterly, Texas and Golden CO 80402.(6x24) the park they were collected in; 40 next day the town decided to call on Washington were well represented at Fish and Game warden Dave Etz- meetings that led to the choice of CONDOMS AND SPERMICIDESfrom percent will go to all parks in the non-profit organization, Prices 10% -~O% national park system, and the wiler. He netted the ram and Nevada; however, Nevada was -not. below suggested retail. Over 50 brands director of the National Park Service immediately checked to see if it was "No one from our state has been of condoms. Variety packs. CallI write will decide how to direct the sick. It wasn't; just lost, apparently. permitted to participate or argue for for free Mail Order Brochure. The remaining 10 percent to parks. The The warden took the animal back to our interests," said Nevada Rep. Rubber Tree/ZPG-Seattle, Dept. HC, Barbara Vucanovich. Wright An· 4426Burke Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98t03. yearly area pass to both parks and some cliffs 30 miles from town. (206!633·4750.(3x21p) the Golden Eagle pass to all national Denver wants drews, Washington lobbyist for Ne- parks and monuments remain the vada Gov. Richard Bryan, said that 'BOUNDARY CONSULTANTAVAIL· same, at $D and $2~ respectively. to breathe Congress' decision setding on Ne- ABLE specializing in boundary line Tom Robbins, president of the In an effort to clean up Denver's, vada illustrated "gang-rape mental- disputes, resurvey conflicts with aLM or Jackson Hole Visitor Council, said, air, motorists in nine Front Range Forest Service. Expert records research ity. " and field investigations. Contact Ginger 1 'If it hurts out- of town visitation at counties from Fort Collins to Colora- I Hite,.3031'443·5391.(8xt8p) all, it will be marginal, and the do Springs have been required to use offsetting benefits to the park will, only gasoline that is blended with a NEED A NEW LOOKto cheer up the f/OUSESITTING: One or two people winter blahs? High Country News has a make it well worthwhile." • high-oxygen additive from Jan. 1· wanted to carerake house and five acres Feb. 29. Customers can' choose dynamic collection of 100% cotton on the edge of the Escalante Wilder· Tvshirts , Artwork and High Country between gasoline blended with the A new defender ness. .Fruit trees, garden space and News logo" on front. Royal blue, kelly petroleum-based MTBE, or the agri- animal space. All expenses paid in green, fuschia, burgundy, turquoise. Defenders of Wildlife, the 80,000- culturally-based ethanol. Ted Hollam exchange for light work. Write to Box 60 Small (not in royal blue), medium, member group based in Washington, of the Colorado Department of Escalante, Utah 84726.(Ixh) large, extra large. $10 each by check, D.C., will have a new president as of Health and Air Pollution estimates Visa, Mastercard (account o.?',' expire- IS THERE ANYONELEFT RUGGED tion date and _si:gnatute,'ph~a·se~)' HCN , 90 this February. He is Lloyd Cutler, that percent of the gasoline ENOUGH to enjoy living on beautiful Tvshirrs , Box 1090, Paoni~ CO 81428. t .mountain-oarrch -withour relepheuej, ..in... '"'t >;. former assistant secretary of agricul- ·coming .inro the st-ate,pontaJ,ns:> - if' "I __ ture from 1977-80 under President MTBE. Since ethanol cannot be door plumbing? Free "rent in exchange WANTED: PEOPLE INTERESTED in mixed at a refinery, suppliers must for light work. Must have own income, making money, an excellent opportunity. Jimmy Carter. It was Cutler who references, F. Wilson, EI Rito, N.M. For free information send .large SASE to directed the Forest Service to re- clean their gas station tanks and 87530. (4x2p) Car-Mac Enterprises, Dept. HN, 4318 E. evaluate roadless lands as potential pipes to accommodate the alcohol. ~ 10Dr., Crawford, CO81411,(lxp) wilderness. Later, he served as vice based ethanol. Those house· keeping CLASSIFIED ADS ccet 20 cents pet president of the National Audubon chores apparently dissuade oil sup· word, pre-paid, ., minimum. General COLORADO ON THE EDGE: A Confer- rates for 'display" are S6/column inch" ence About the Future of Colorado's Society and was assistant executive pliers from using ethanol, despite its camera-reedy; S8/column inch if we Environment, February 12 & 13, 1988, director of The Wilderness Society. reputation as a cleaner burning fuel. make up. For ad" rate brochure, write University of Colorado, Boulder. Cutler, who was trained as a wildlife Tests conducted by the Department HeN, Box '1090, Paonia, CO 8t428 Ot This conference will bring Colorado's biologist, replaces Joyce Kelly, a of Health proved that the additives, call 3031527·4898. environmental leaders together to ex- former Bureau of Land Management reduced carbon monoxide emission -plore the outlook for- Celcrade'e-: 'air, . '·."water, land, and wildlife-resources, and 10 30 professional who resigned in July. by to percent. to srrateg ize about ways of keeping the EXECUTIVEDIRECTORwanted for the "wild" in Colorado, Rural Coalition, a 140-member social Speakers: Roderick Nash, wilderness change coalition of grassroots, local, author, Senator Tim Wirth, David Incinerator galvanizes Moab regional, and national organizations Geechee , Charles Wilkinson," Martha "working for the interests of rural people, Ezzard, Tom Glass, Maggie Fox, Ed particularly the disadvantaged and pee- Marston and many others. MOAB, Utah «The prospect of a publisher Sam Taylor said, "I would ple of color. The Executive Director is " Saturday Evening Valentitie's Eve the chief executive officer and desig- privately developed toxic waste incin- hate to see the county become Dance with Hot Rize, Colorado Blue nated agent of the Rural' Coalition and is Grass Band. erator in Cisco, Utah, spurred Moab perceived as a great place to dump responsible for the overall and day-to- Conference $12, Conference and residents to tum out in force at six garbage. A toxic and hazardous day running of the organization, ee- lunch SU, Dance admission S5. Spon .. public meetings irr 10 days (HCN, waste faciliry would attract more .. pecially fundralsing. Extensive exper- sored by the CU Environmental Center 12/21/87). just like cow droppings attract flies." ience with nonprofit organizations, coali. & the Colorado Environmental Coalition. J obo Groo, a mountain bike tion building and maintenance I and For more information,' call ~he CU That is ,unusual for a town that public policy work required. Send entrepreneur, said the new local Environmental Center (303)492-8308. has traditionally backed industry, but resume and cover letter stating reasons (txb) Moab Planning Commission Chair- group he is in opposes the inciner- for interest and qualifications to Rural ator but supports most other indus- Coalition, 2001 SSt., NW, Suite ~OO, man Kyle Bailey explains that many OPPORTUNITIES in residents understand "our future is try. Of the S1 possible uses listed in Washington, D.C. 20009,ATTN: Seatch Committee. (lxp) " geared to people who want to get the proposed counry .zoning rules for CONSERVA nON away from the pollution.producing heavy industry, the group called EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR:SouthernUtah .....--.Volunteer· positions available urban environments they live in." ARISE opposes only three. They are Wilderness ~ Alliancera ~OO·member . . throu~h the Student Conservation Some traditionalists remain, how· the incineration of hazardous or toxic conservation organization based in ij.:.0.> Program: Springdale and Salt Lake City, seeks an ever. The counry's Republican Cen- wastes, s~orage of those wastes • Work with professional staff " executive director to help defend Utah's tral Committee recently held an except those created locally, and the' in National P

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AIR QUALITY BOOK REVIEWS l/2l/87, p.16: Solitude along the A small town fights a large asbestos A reservoir WilhoMt·water, Ed Escalante River. dump, Margaret Layboucn, 5/25/87, Marston, 3/30/87 p.12: Utah's Ut4h Commission issues "a visionary Expedition Yellowstone: A MOlmtain A modest proposal: 'catch and p:5: Burns, Wyo., residents fight Northern Utes are ;ruck with Bottle . report, Betsy Marston, 1/19/87, p.~: Adventure, Sandra Chisholm, draw- release' hllnii"g, George Wuerthner, dump. Hollow Reservoir. Utah air quality study. . . ings by Ellen Ditzler Meloy, 2/2/87, 6/8/87, p.16 .. Nuclear dump draws fire, Bruce U.S. may ma~e aflle"ds. 4/13/87, Douglas, Amon/J, smelter closes: p.8: Excerpts and drawings. What to do in the West when there's Farling, 5/25/87, p.5: Montanan p .14: A bill ptoposed that The Wesl- cleans liP its act, Ed American Outdoors:The Legacy, The nothing to do, Linda Hasselstrom , John Driscoll argues for dump, returns parts of Utah and Wyoming Marston, 2/2/87, p.l: Controversy Challenge, The President's Commie- 8/3/87, p.16. creating controversy. ro the Sioux. A Montana trihe asserts its sov- over closure of Phelps Dodge smelter sian on American Outdoors, review Six playflll creatures: seven CNriONS A deadl, plume threatens Tucson, ereignty, Steve Hinchman, 5/11/87, due to .pollution. by Steve Hinchman, 4/13/87, p.6. creatures, David A. Smith, 8/31/87, Jane Kay, l/2l/87, p.IO: .The story Utah vulnerahle to acid rain, 3/2/87, The Mining -Law: A Stutly in p.15: Watching otters. of Tucson, Ariz.'s pollution and its p.7: The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indians seek takeover of p.g , Perpetllal Motion, John D. Leshy, effects'. Recreation management on Flathead ( In Denver, the rille is: Exhale, but, review by Peter Wild, 10/26/87, p.}. FORESTS TCE and birlh defects, Jane Kay, aon', inhale, Lou Chapman, 813187. The Kingdom in the COllnlry, James l/2l/87, p.11. ' reservation. p.L. Conaway, review by Philip Fradkin, Forest Senllee refutes senator's at- You can't dn'n~ the water or breathe A Ute proposal "aid triple size of Reno, Denver come IInaer EPA 11/23187, p.4. tack, Bert Lindler, 1119/87, p.3: Sen. Ihe air, Rick Stokes, ~r2l/87, p.tj: Mesa Verde, Steve Hinchman, interdict, Steve Hinchman, 8/3/87, Beauty, Health and Perma"ence: Max Baucus proved wrong' on fob Effects of hazardous waste near 5/25/87, p.3: Colorado Utes want p.lO. Envt1YJllmentaiPoliticsin the Unt'ted category statistics. , . Casper, Wyo. ' development on national park's bor- I" some of the We~t's towns and Stales, 19.15·1985, Samuel P. Hays in An attempt to save the last 10 ,Colorado ar~enal is a center of der. citiesI it is clean air and health collaboration .with Barbara D, Hays, percent, Jim Stiak, 1/19/87, p.4: infech"on,Steve Hinchman, 5/25/87, Navajos may soon have a weekly versus woodstooes, Steve Hinchman, review by Ed Marston, 12/21/87, Protests against timbering of Devil's p.D: Rocky Mountain Arsenal pol- paper, Patricia ~uthrie, 5/25187, 813187, p. II. p.6. Ridge Roadless Area, Ore. lutes water. p.d. Utah decides it can't afford to ~eep The space age threatens a biological The EPA is hanting those who IIill by Congress hears a" Indian cry for its air clean, Terri Martin, 12121/87. arll, Dan Dagger, 2/2/87, p.6: Battle degrees, David Wann, 5/25/87, p.D: help, Jyl Hoyt, 6/22187, p.d: Menta- p. 14. ELECTRIC ENERGY between conservationists and, astro- Opinion piece on illegal dumping of na Blackfeet levy taxes. physicists for Mt. Graham, Ariz. waste. Bereaeoratic impasse ends, George ,At 3.4 million acres, the B·T is too A pl*me of gasoline seeps throllgh Hardeen, 7/6/87, pA: Navajo, Hopi - small, Steve Hinchman, 2/16/87, Moab, Betsy Marston, 6/8/87, p.g: tribes told that contaminated water p.B: Who will manage the Bridger. 7 -acre plume of gasoline under won't be cleaned up for a while, Teton National Forest, Wyo. Moab, Utah. WIll jobs flow onto the Navajo A Forest Service stutly sheds little Roc~yFlats test makes its neighbors Nation? George Hardeen, 8/17/87, lighl, Pat Ford, 3/2/87, p.3: Idaho hot near Denver, Steve Hinchman, p.5: Economic development in the timber supply study's findings re- 7/6/87, p.l. Navajo nation, leased. A tiny town fights a nNclear waste Tn'bes say righ~s hearing hurts Peterson .leafJes behind a logging dllmp, Steve Hinchman, 7/6/87, p.8: sovereignty, George Hardeen, legacy, Andrew Melnykovich, Last Chance, Colo., holds off hazard· 9/14/87, p.6. 3/2/87, p.l: Fotmet head of the ous waste dump. Tribes seek freedoms they say they Forest Service, Max Peterson, le~ves Telling a hopeless story, Ed Mar· helped the U.s. achieve, Steve legacy. stan, 7/6/87, p.l0: Proftle of journal. Hinchman, 10/26/87, p.16. Agen-cy doesn't bother 10 lock its ist Joseph' Bauman and his articles Acoma Indians protest a proposed 'gales, John Holt, 3/2/87, p.7: Road about nuclear testing radiation vic· national monument tn New Mexico, closures on Flathead National Forest, tims. Patricia Guthrie,. 11/9/87, p.1: EI Mont., blamed on Forest Service Photographing the fJletims, Betsy Malpais national monument lands negligence. Marston, 7/6/87, p.IO: Ptofile of under dispute. Sullivan backs drilling, loggIng on Carole Gallagher, photographer of MILITARY the B.T, Katharine Collins, 3/30/87. nuclear testing radiation victims. pA: Wyoming governor draws fire Radiation Victims of· the Amen'ca" It/aho enters nudea" weapons hllsi· from cons'ervationists.· ..d I,•.);,,' ,:"''1':1,.1 S'Outhw'4ft:·hA~\Port/oWr)"'of' Pho70\ ness, Paci'F~rdfi211~!!Z,,l.p'i4lsit ;U..~R -A Forest SeTfJiceti",ber stlldy dr:aws graphs, Carole Hallagher,. 716/"8.7; i E~onomic, devewp",ent' c011Jes"'''tO fire, Bruce Farling, 4/27/87, p.6: p.11. Colorado,Judy Moffatt, l!Il/S7, p.'3: Montana study's results received Toxic gas dn'ves families oul of a Colorado Ariny National-Guard may skeptically. Wyoming subdivision, Katharine Col. train on recreational area. Some land was reforested only on lins, 8/31/87, p.6: Problems at Downwinders: Amen'ca'snuclear sac- paper, Rocky B",rket, l/1l/87, p.6. Rawhide Village, Gillette, Wyo. rificial lambs, Joseph .Bauman,. A struggle for an Am-ana PeaA, Wyo",ing has aquifers fall offouled 716/87, p.l: Story of controversy Carol Ann Bassett, ~/ll/87, p.lO: A water, Katharine Collins, 8/31/87, over nuclear testing radiation vic· battle betwe~n astronomers and p.6: Government actions dealing with tims. preservationists over Mt. Graham. problems at Brookhurst subdivision, Nevada town is co"tlemned by the Bears verslls bi~ers, John Holt, Casper, Wyo. U.S., Fielding McGhee, 7/6/87, p.l: 5/25187, pA: Forest Service prohib- On Ihe North Platte: a fish IIilllo end Dixie Valley residents evicted by its off-road vehicles in some areas of allfish IIills, Jim Scntt, 9/28/87, p.6: 'noisy military planes. . Flathead Nationail Forest, Mont. Gasoline spill near Casper, Wyo. Missile test rang' bombs in 'South I"dustry protests a logging moratori· Wyoming's poisoned, explosive sub· Dakota, Petet Catrels, 10/26/87, p.7: a"" Bruce Farling, 9/14/87, p.7: divisions, Tom Bell, 1217187, p.5. Indians and ranchers oppose Honey- Lolo National Forest in Montana. . Moab residents are bllrned up over well, Inc., in Black Hills. Montana groNPSbac~Forest Sertlice, inciner4tor in Cisco, Craig Bigler, Bruce Farling, 12/21/87, p.3: Lolo 12/21/87, p.5: CoWest plans to burn MINING National Forest logging moratorium. toxic waste in Utah. Colorado skeptical of incinerator, Heap leach mining comes to South HAZARDOUS WASTES Steve Hinchman, 12/21/87, p.5: DaAota: There's goltl t'" them •thar hills, Peter Carrels, 4/13/87, p.l: Proposed burninJt of toxic waste Controversy over gold mining in the In New' Mexico's uraniNm bell: could affect Grand Junction, Colo. Black Hills. GllUjerNational Park, Montana Rebottling' the nllclear genie, Steve Hapless DOE: What a long, strange Western coal mi",s are hit by stri~e, Hinchman, 1/19/87, p.l: Effects of trip it's on. 'Melinda Kassen, Patricia Guthrie, 4/13/87, p.3: Coal AGRICULTURE New Power#ne could electrocute the United Nuclear Corp.'s uranium 12/21/87, p.D: Transportation of salmon, Pat Ford, 212/87, p.5: Court mill. mines in Arizona, Montana, and nuclear waste. Congress loo~s at grazing, Steve battle over possible damage to BLM land is a paratlt'sefor toxic Colorado are on suik~, Hinchman, 4/27/87, p.l. Idaho's wild fish. dampers, Becky Rumsey,' 2/161.87, GrollPS ta~e the 'initiatt've,Ed Mar- AI/an Savory: Ga,.. of false hopes Yet another Nnneeded power plant p.6. INDIANS ston, 4/13/87, p.l·3: South Dakota and an overstoc~ed range, Steve starts generating, Layne Mijler, The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: groups' take on the gold mining' Johnson, 4/27/87, p.lO: One view of Steve Hinchman, Ed Marston, Poor engineen'"g, worse PR, James An oldpol takes haec the reins 0/ the industry. Allan Savory. 8/31/87, pA.: Intermountain Power Baker, 3/2/87, p.l: Hanford, Wash., Navajo nation, Patricia Guthrie, AMAX gifJes up on Crested BNlle, Allan SafJory: Creator of a Socratic Project in Delta, U~ah. is not a good place' for a nuclear 2/2/87, p.3: Petet MacDonald Gary Sprung, l/2l/87, p.l: AMAX approach to land management, Sam dump. elected for fourth term to head ftnally gives up on Colorado town as) Bingham, 4/27/87, p.ll: One view of ESSAYS A plan to burn wastes arollses Navajo nation. molylidenum mine. Allan Savory. suburbs, 3/2/87, pA: Denver, Colo .., Navajo leader MacDonald shuts Mining rears its heatl again in Coyotes get a ~id out of this That empty peauty, Peter Shelton, residents alarmed at Rocky ~Flats~ reservation's newspaper, Patricia Montana, Bruce Farling, 8/17187, shepherd, Judith E. Strom, 6/8187, 2/2/87, p.16: Driving through Neva·" weapons plant burning was~e. Guthtie, 3/16/87, p.6. pA. p A: Donkeys guard sheep from da. . Quaile would finish a Hanford plant, Crowsfire James Watt, Jim Robbins, Colorado cnpples t'ts mining regll· coyotes in Montana. Rllmjnations on the ecology of Steve Hinchman, 3/2/87, p.10: Han· 3/30/87, p.3'~ Montana Crow Indians lators, Stacl Hobbet,8/31/87, p 3: Nosema' is a magic bNllet against wilderness trash, Bruce Farling, ford, Wash., plant unsafe, but . ftre Watt as lawyer. Colorado legislative actions . hoppers, Bill London, 6/22/87, pA: 3/2187, p.16. repairs are too expensive. Have YON ever- seen a rainbow at Court ruling may ignite chain reac- Pesticide works. The postcartl imperative, Arthur Hanford creates a chat'" reaction of nighl? The Arl of Navajo Children, tion in Ilrant'u", indllstrY, Steve .An Idaho forest is strud by Roth,3/16/87,p.16. opposition, J aines Baker, 3/2/87, 3/30/87, p.8: Paintings by and Hinchman, 9/14/87. p.4. sabotage, Florence Williams, 8/3/87, Spring in SOllth DaAota: There is a p.12: Organizations against Hanford, photos of Navajo child.ren. A judge upholds a 1982 Watt coal p.7: Spikes found in Salmon National qllic~eni"g in the land, Linda B. Wash.,- as nuclear dump. An Indian tribe regains its sovereign lease, Patrick Dawson, 10/12/87, Forest trails. Hasselstrom, '4/13/87, p.8. Juggling the ,,1Ic1earhot potato, rights OfJer3 million acres, Steve p.13: Issues of Po.-wder River Basin Soil conseTfJQtionists hear impas. Going 2000 ",iles for breailfasl, Steve, Hinchman, 312/87, p.12: Con. Hinchman, 3/30/87, p.l0: Northern coal lease sale 10 Montana and sioned call to arms, Pat Dawson, David Schoonmaker, 4/27/87, p.16: troversy over search for second Ute Indian tribe regains Utah's Wyoming. 10/26/87, p.6: Ethical priniciples are Appreciation of the West's break· nuclear waste repo~itory'in the East. Uintah Basin. Miners ofJefwhel", foes in SOllth· needed to bring policy changes. . fasts. Sloppy practices at Hanford! Becky How the Ute Tn'be lost its wMer, Dakota, Petet Cartels, 11/9/87, pA: Sheepman SQYsenvirpnmentalistsare Endangered names, Arthur Roth, Rumsey, 3/2/87, p.12. Richard White and Ed Marston, South Dakota citizens group loses ~illing his intiuslry/ Matt Winters, l!11/87, p.16. Are the caskets strong e"oMgh?,Jim 3/30/87, p.l1: Utah's Northern Utes attempt to limit gold mining. 11/23187, p.14: Challenges to Wyn- Hllm"mingbirds, sandsto"e, time Sloan, 3/2/87, p.13: Is nuclear waste lost water to the Central Arizona 11/ pONnd copier stops a Utah dNst ming wool-growers. lifJed wild, R. Edward Grumbine, being transported s'afely? I \ J Project. storm, for the ff1Oment,~teve Hinch· 2 me 19-1987

man,·1217/87, p.7: Bingham Canyon A resort town taps Grand Canyon mine-tailings affect Magna, Utah. water, Dan Dagget, 4/27/87, p.l. Will gold mine give town II boost or Matt q"ietly loc~s horns with his a boot?, Judity E. Strom, 12/21/87, boss, Rocky Barker, 6/22187, p.l: pA: open pit and cyanide heap- Reintroductioncof wolves to Yellow- leaching near Lincoln, Mont, stone creates dispute. Mott erges Earth Firstlers to don MISCELLANEOUS wolf costumes, too, Jean Heller, 6/22/87, p.IO.

High Country News Index, VolMme Coalition gainsl momentllm, Angus IB, 1986, 1/19187, p.s. Thuermer, 6/22/87, p.10: Greater Proposed IRS rules threaten non- Yellowstone Coalition is back on its profits, 2/16187, p.6. feet. Natural History for ~he '80s, Yellowstone under a microscopej 2/16/87, p.8: Photo and poetry. Rocky Barker, 6/22187, p.11. In search of Erwi"ia on (J stormy Gnawing away at Yellowstone, Rocky peak, Keith Kramer, l/lO/87, p.4: Barker, 6122/87, p.12: Oil and gas Gary Franc looks for Erwinia bacteria development threat to Yellowstone. in snow. The grizzly may be coming bad, American Oil/doors report is re- Rocky Barker, 6122187, p.12: Yellow- leased, Tom Ribe, 4/1l/87, p.6. stone's grizzly population improving. Earth First! is becoming mainstream, Yellowstone's former beggars now grub honest living, Rocky Barker, Maggie Coon, 4/27/87, p.4: Confer- Skiing in Montana ence breaks barriers between en- 6122187, p.ll: Black bears now don't vironmental groups. beg from tourists. forests bllrn, Ed Marston, 6/22(87, Montana Legislature dodged tOllgh A pori-a-planet is under construction A top Par~ Service official goes out p.ll. calls, Bruce Farling, 5/11/87, p.7. in Anzona, Mary Moran, 6/8/87. shooting, Dennis Brownridge, Allan Savory tells the, cattle industry 1987 was an excellent year for the p.4 .. 6/22/87, p.14: Park Services West· to AwaMe! Awa~e!, Ed Marston, Idaho Legislature, Pat Ford , 5/11/87, Has ]acllson, Wyo., heen Ceiifor- ern Regional director, Howard Chap- 8/l/87, p.1l. p.ll. man, resigns. . nicated? Katharine Collins, 813187, I. search of a lew [Io.g] le.. rs, Ed U.S. Senator sees green coalition p.3: Wyoming and Montana battle Teton Par~ inholding brings top . Marston, 8/17/87, p.15: Opinion forming, Gary Sprung and Betsy dollar, Katharine Collins, 8/3/87, over "Croakies" company. piece on collider and West's econ- Marston, 6122/87, p.6. p. 5: Private land within Teton Earth First! Warriors meet at Grand omy. Sen. McCain: a conservative conser- National Park, Wyo., sold to park for Canyon, Art Goodtimes, 81;187, pA: 32 autumns later, the Dodgers win vationist, Dan Dagget, 12/7/87, p.3. top dollar. Earth First! meeting. another big one, Ed Marston, Crater La~e could be loved to death, Brower chides and exhorts his old 10/12/87, p.15: Future directions for Rocky Barker, 8/l/87, p.7: Sewage PUBLIC LANDS group, Florence Williams, 8/3/87, Bureau of Reclamation and Colora- p.j: Sierra Club's annual meeting in threatens Crater Lake, Ore. do's Two Forks Dam project. Fishing Bn';Jge decision pleases Co- Farmers and e/~ lad horns in Idaho J Vail, Colo. Bringing bacM wolves will ~i/I more dy, politicians, Rocky Barker, Steve Hichman, 2/2/87, p.a: BLM The 'Points West' colMmn stn'kes its than sheep, Mike Harrop, 10/26/87, 11/9/87, p~16. Yellowstone campers makes preliminary decision to build /lag, Florence Williams, 8/17/87, p.12: Reasons to oppose wolf re- p.2: Syndicated column' covering and grizzly bears are affected by Egin-Hamer road, with a provision. covery. Wyoming's vast, scarred Red Desert, Western issues. ends. ' politics. 'Eye for an eye' doesn't wor~ Pam Ed Marston, 6/8/87, p.l. Leafy spurge meets its match, in a Morris, 10/26/87, p.12: Val~e of Ranchers anti Forest Service hutt goat, Judith E. Strom, 9/14187, p.l: OIL AND GAS cougars. weed control in Montana. heads, Peter Carrels, 8/31/87, p.8: Beauty" i;olation and cheap /and An oil firm closes in on a roadless PEOPLE Management issues 00 Sourb Da- Q:- area, Ro.cky Barket,18l3187, p.3: Oil ~\.li;;'~ ,-_ "'tl '" kota's_oational grasslands. _ _ bring-t.. sect-.1-..·t(y.JMontana,' .Jim ""'.,' ,,... ., drilling "in"an'lllaho proposed~ ''-Haec- Robbins, 9/i418(' p.'!: History of I Fighting to save what she' loves From tiust bowl to na#o,,'" grass- and present concerns about the ness area? Rocky Barker, 8/l1./87, p.12: Wyom: lands, Betsy Marston,-8/31187, p.ll: · Church Universal and Triumphant. Senate wi/I put a bane/aid on oil and 109 conservation-ist Margaret Murie. Historical perspective. Par~ SeflJice see~s to evict an gas leasing, Andrew Melnykovich, James Watt recounts, and savors, Nevada-Floritia /anti swap attracts interloper, Craig Bigler, 9/14/87, 8/17/87, p.6: Probable changes in o.il some old battles, Rocky Barker, lots of public SCNltillY, Florence and gas leasing policy. p.5: Tamarisk. 10112187, p.ll. Williams, 10112/87, p.l. Biologist Garrell Hardin says we Failed ranch leads to new /and 8se Watt and Hodel s8cceedetl;n t8",ing OIL SHALE remain trapped in his 'tragedy of the idea, Betsy Marston, 11/9/87, p.14: bad the clod at Intenor, Steve ·commons,' Staci Wertz Hobbet Experiences of Robert Scott, who . Hinchman, 10/12/87, p.12. 10/12/87, p.5: Ecology and econom: 134/ barrel shale oil subsidy,. BLM surrenders on ElM MOM"tain 2/16/87, p.7: U.S. Treasury pays proposes a 'Big Open' in Montana. ics lead to difficult conclusions about Idaho wolf-ilill bili has •• i.te.ded access, Katharine Coll~s, 10/26/87, subsidy to Unocol Corp. 's Parachute, p.4: Difficulties in securing public population control. effect, Diane Hackl, 11/2l/87, p.ll: Colo., plant. access to public lands in Wyoming. · Wyoming Olltdoor Council returns to Patricia Burke of Idaho works for Congr~ss to loo~ again at ai/-shale Utah w,,-nts acres 0" La~e its roots, Katharine Collins and Ed wolf recovery. _ ~o,ooo Marston, 10/12187, p.6. lands, Steve Hinchman, 3/2/87, pA. Powell, Diane Hackl, 11/23/87, p.l. Oil shale county takes a hit Judy Group to fill Colorado environmental Idaho debates p8blic land access, Pat Moffatt, 9/14/87, p.7: Unoc~l's reo' PHOTO AND GRAPHIC FEATURES vacuum, Steve Hinchman, 10/12/87, Ford, 12121/87, p.1: Legal issues duced tax load affects Garfield over gates near Sawtooth ·National p.6. Owyhee, photos and text by Glenn ~PA pesticide registration is nearly County, Colo. Recreation Area. Oakley, 3/2187, p.8: Rafting on the worthless, Mary O'Brien, 10/26/87, E"vironmental groups lose Bllrr Trail Owyhee River', Ore. OPINION case, Betsy Marston, 12121/87, p.3.· p.14: Four Corners COMntry, photos' by 3000years of volcanic activity formed Hidtien, but vulnerable, Betsy Mar- The West's top stories: land, land, Dick Arentz, 4/27/87, p.8. EI Malpais, _Patricia Guthrie, ston, 12/21/87, p.10: Caves need land, land, Ed Marston, 1/19/87, White on White, photos and text by 1119/87, p.10: Rare ecosystem' near protection. p.ll. Bob Willging, 6/8/87, p.8: Snow· Grants, N.M. Let's set Dubois free, John - Perry scapes. BIIRec's move West meets some RECREATION Barlow, 2/16/87, ·p.14: Author urges On Seeing Nature, photos and text lively opposition, Andrew Mel- Louisiana·Pacific to get out of by Steven Meyers, 6/22/87, p.B. Report 011 recreation stirs rand Mse nykovych, 11/9187, p.16. Chaco Canyon, photos by Dale Dubois, Wyo. debate, Becky Rumsey, 1/19187, p.l. Cancer stn'Mes indirectly at the Schicketanz, text by Mary Moran, slow-growing yew, Jim Stiak, Mam'age of co;'ve~ience, Ed Mar- A signal to Colorado, 2/2/87, p.7: 8/l187, p.8: Chaco Canyon, N.M. 1112l/87, p.16: Pacific yew bark ston, 2/16/87, p.15: Analysis of the Results of Colorado Division of gathered for cancer treatment. West's changes as seen through Art in High Places, drawings by Wildlife's market·research poll. High Coutltry News. She's lelt the sk.y, 10112187, p.8: Steve Wood, 11/9187, p.8. A. game ranchi"g bi/I in Wyoming The end of multiple lise, Charles Photo and poetry. The animal world of Monte Dolac~, ptlS landow"er against hMnters Federal agency escapes. WPPSS case, Wilkinson, l/lO/87, p.1l. graphics by Monte Dolack, 12/21/87, Katharine Collins, 2/16/87, p.l. ' 12121/87, p.3: Bonneville Power Two For~s ReseflJoir spawns a bad p.8. Montana's stream access war may he Authority dismissed from bond de- bill, Tom Easley, 4/Il/87, p.ll: over, Mike Dennison, 2/16/87, p.7. fault suit. Controversy over development im. POLITICS A Wyoming lawma~er says ranch~rs pact on Colorado's fish and wildlife s8stain big game, Katharine Collins NATIONAL PARKS resources. Jiov. Andrus returns to a changed 2/16/87, p.IO. ' A. Idaho profile: Ra.cher-Iawmalter Idaho, Par Ford, l/2l87, p.6. Recreation ma~es money, John Holt, A new town riseth north of Yellow- ta~es on the esta,blishment, Pat Ford, Lamm loo~s bad on 12 years I l12/87, p.7. stone, Jim Robbins, 2/2/87, p.7: j/11/87, p ..13: State Senator John 3/2/87, p.6: Former Colorado gover- Colorado may get a large, 1Iew sAi Church Universal and Triumphant's Peavey. nor. area, Becky Rumsey, 3/2/87, p.7. developments threaten Yellowstone A. Idaho profile: Laird N~h sets high Game and Fish nominee stirs New Can h8nting save ranchers?, Bnice' I geysers. standard for the Idaho Legislature, 'Mexico, Tom Arrandale, 3/16/87, Farling, l/lO/87, p.6: Managing I- Canyon lovers organize, Dan. Dagget, Pat Ford, j/11/87, p.14. p.2: Controversy over attempted wildlife as a .cash crop may boost 2/16/87, p.4: Environmental groups Trampling on the ConstitMtion, An· appointment of Robert Jones to state Montana's econ~my. . meet to dedde policy protecting drew Melnykovych, j/11/87, p.ll: Game and Fish Commission. Groups challenge a Coloratlo sA; Grand Canyon National Park from Criticism of'George Dunlop, assistant SagebNlsh rebel wins post, . Tom proposal, Becky Rumsey, 4/27/87, uranium mining. secretary. of agriculture. . Arrandale, l/30/87, p.l: Robert p. 6: Wolf Creek Valley ski area Proposed Grand Canyon bridg~ stirs The ·tiestructive death throes of Jones appointed to. New Mexico's meets resistance. "ebate, Dan Daggec, l/2/87, p.l. Oregon I, Mark C. Ortenad, 6/8/87, Game and Fish Commission in the BLM: ORVi and rare pla1lts can Study concludes ecosystem is mis- p.15: Conflict between the old timber face of opposition. coexist~ Staci Hobbet, 8/31/87, p.7: ma.aged, Jim Robbins, l/lO/87 industry - and the young tourist -The 1987 Wyoming Legislature was Races 10 Colorado receive permits in p.7: Environmental mismanagenie~~ industry. no fun, Sarah Gorin Jones, 4113/87.- · in Yellowstone. The Forest Service ~owtows while p:4. (Co"ti""ed on pag. IC1) Te

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CalIfornia: The collider collides with Montana slugs it alit, Bruce Farling, farming, Ed Marston, 8/17/S7, p.13: 10/26/87, p.5: Progress slow on California's candidacy for collider , wilderness bill. INDEX New Mexico:. Enchanted with high Trying to save the Deep Cree~ tech, 8/17/87, p,13: New Mexico's MOllntains, Mike Medberry, candidacy for collider. 11/23/87, p.~: BLM Wilderness spite of protests by "ranchers and Dan Heidel Colorado: The genteel art of coBider proposal in Utah. environmentalists. espionage, Ed Marston, 8/17/87, p. Idaho dealmalers mOfle slowly, Age"cies join fJoI*1Ileers /0' improve 14: Colorado's candidacy for collider. Rocky Barker, 1217187, p.l: Idaho fishing streams, Chas. S. Clifton, Neflada: Space and lots more space, wilderness bilL 9/28/87. p.B: Projects in Colorado. Steve Hinchman, 8/17/87, p.14: WJlderness advocates told: no pain, S~i ;"riIlStry collides with' the big Nevada's candidacy for collider. no gain, Bruce Farling, 12/21/87, game industry, Tamara Wiggins,' Collider to prodllce more than p.4. 10/26/S7, p.l: Proposals in Wolf ~nowledge, Steve Hinchman, Creek area of southern Colorado 8/17/87, p.14: Hazardous waste may WILDLIFE cause land use disagreements. be produced. Ski area proposals have at least nine sse race reveals the- West's wea~ Montana says grizzlies are out of lives, 10126/87, p.IO: Plans in Wolf spots, Steve Hinchman, 9/14187, danger, Bruce Farling, 2/16/87, p.~. Creek area, Colorado. p.B: Site proposals for the collider . Balti eagles choose a botily polluteti Idaho poacher ditobes "lIeAs, but is Push comes to shofle over an L-P roost, Becky Rumsey, 3/16/87, p.3: (;onv;cfea anyway, Stephen Sruebner , plant, Betsy Marston, 11/9/87, pA: Twenty bald eagles roost near Rocky 12171S7, pA. Louisiana-Pacific Corp. vs. Western Mountain Arsenal, Colo. Ski-tage hits Amona resort, Dan Colorado Congress. MOllntain lions are fair game in Dagger, 12121/87, p.2. Colorado Says u.s. West decision Montana, John Haviland, 3/16/87, Never give the quarry an even break, ends 'economic winter,' Steve Hinch- p.B: Quota system instituted for Dan Dagger, 12121/87, p.16: High- man, 1119187) p, 7. Montana mountain. lion hunting. tech hunting devices. Is Montana being (de)railroaded? The continlling saga of the West's Patrick Dawson, 1217/87, p.1: Reper- wild horses, Jim Robbins, 3/26/87, WATER cussions of Burlington Northern- p.8. Montana Rail Link transaction. Pryor Mountain horses may be a bit A stricken town looks to a dam lor "Snow Worm" in Idaho Former BN workers say the railroad- 100 pure, Jim Robhins, 3/16/87, help, Bruce Farling, 3/16187, p.~: roBed over them) Patrick Dawson, p.ll: Montana wild herd too inbred. Dam near Libby, Monr., may destroy The Toilet Papers and other Sources, 1217/S7, p.12. Seek.ing ways to Pllt WJld horses on fishing and Indian cultural sites. ' Steve Hinchman, 9/28/87, p.i6: McClure hopes to gifle Idaho town a rhe pill, Jim Rohhins, 3/16/87, p.12: BuRec wants to ~,II dozens of . Publications on water quality, sew- lift, Bruce Fading, 1217/87, p.6: Wild horse population control. projects! Steve Hinchman, 3/16/87, age treatment, and re-use of sewage. Proposal for Kellogg, Idaho. A citizen's proposal, Becky Rumsey, p.13: Proposed 1988 BuRec budget Utah's Great Salt LaAe ta~es a dive, 'Big Open' proposal arouses strong 3/16/87, p.12: Wild horse and burro means change for West's water Ed Marston, 10/121S7, p.6. emotion and hosltlity in Montana, advisory board releases proposaL projects. The Imperial Valley sits down with Patrick Dawson, 1119/87, p.14: Rob- The Big Open: Montana's Serengeti Alldllbon, NWF fight for a water the upper basin, Ed Marston, ert Scott's vision of a profitable Plain! Bruce Farling, 3/30/87, p.6: project, Steve Hinchman, 3/16/87, 10/26/87, p.~: Distribution options wildlife range. Bob Scott's plan to return buffalo to p.13: North Dakota's Garrison Diver- for southern California's Colorado The BN pot continues to bod in Montana. sion splits environmental opposition. River water rights. Montana, Patrick Dawson, 12/21/87, Drought, federal agencies threaten Animas-LaPfata project stalls, Forest Service wins water rights, p.7. North,west's salmon, Pat Ford, 3/16/87, p.14: Colorado water pro- 11/9/87, p,4: Inarream flow water 3/30/87, p.7. . ject would be hit by BuRec budget claims upheld in Colorado Supreme WILDERNESS Caribou are opposed as threat to cuts. Court. loggisg, Pat Ford, 4/27/87, pA: BuRec and environmentalists come to Lawsuit filed to clear Idaho's waters, The MW A: 28 years of plolting for Controversy over whether caribou blows, Steve Hinchman and Ed Rocky Barker, 1217/S7, p.3. the land, Betsy Marston, 1/19/87, deplete Idaho's timber. Marston, 3/16/87, p.1~: Controversy Water project goes to a vote, Jeanne p.3: Montana Wilderness Associa- Shollid wolves return to Yellow- over feature of Central' Arizona Englert, 1217/87, p.5: Animas- tion's 28th annual meeting. stone?, Dee Oudin, 5111/87, p.3. Project. LaPlata in Southern Colorado. A flap in southern Utah, Betsy ,Jagllar is slallghtered in southern Water project is tJfloJ'ded li~e the Marston, 212187, p.~: Clive Kin. Arizona, Da~ Dagett, 6/22/87, p.3 . plague, Jeanne Englert, 3I30lS7, .. WEST'S ECONOMY caid's house may be ina wilderness Blac~.joote.d ferrets Darn in captiflJIy, '1 '. ::, -;:.:;;. ~ .. ,_~ ;-•. ': p.3: 43 Colorado farmers take BuRec I stud'YJarea.~"'::;; l ~ Steve Hinchmarif;6-t-22/87,-rp;-6~~ ~- to court. A new chapter in DanAruptcy, Becky Miner wants to road the Rifler 01 No Conserva#onists sue to protect COli- The Wesl will jusl tritAle by Ihis Rumsey, 1/19/87, p.5: Western RelNrn, Mike Medberry, 212/87, p.6: gars, Tom Arrandale, 716/87, pA: Slimmer, Steve HinchfIlan, 4/13/87, farmers and ranchers take advantage Idaho miner's proposal causes d.is· New Mexico Game and Fish Com- p.3: Possible drought conditions. of new bankruptcy laws. p.ute. mission challenged. BIIRec looAs anew at the Teton Dam Grants diversifies, Steve Hinchman, Paving effort hits roadblock on Bllrr Wild horses arollse fiery strong s,'e, Pat Ford, 4127/87, p.3: Cam- 1/19/87, p;12: Busted New Mexico Trail, Betsy Matston, 3/30/87, p.l: feelings, Florence Williams, 7/6/87, paign in eastern Idaho to rebuild uranium town is recovering. Paving of Utah's Burr Trail stopped. p.~: Angry response to BLM's Teton Dam. I L-P turns up the heat in Wyoming, Idaho wilderness is in the hands of proposal to kill 10,000 horses. Raflers bailie tiam builtiers~ for Steve Hinchman, 2/2/87, p.l2: one man: GOfl. Andrus, Pat Ford, Once again, buffalo herds roam the Orego.n's Klamath Rifler, Jim Stiak, Louisiana-Pacific Corp. mounts 4/13/S7, p.l. West! Steve Voynick, 7/6/87, p.6. l/11/S7, p.~. media campaign to win public Congressman floats a wilderness /JlII, The grizzly isslle is mallied at a EPA rips the Two For~s Reservoir suppon. Bruce Farling, 5/11/87, pA: Mon- conflention of wn'ters, Jyl Hoyt, EIS, Ed Marston, l/2l/87, p.6: EPA Ulah offitials tharge USX with tana Rep. Pat Williams intro'duces 7/6/87, p.6. criticizes Denver, CoIO'.'s .{lroposed betrayal, Ed Marston, 2/16/87, p.6: hill. Wolfles and hllmal1s: depreda#ng water system. United States Steel Company in Idaho' closes in on a wild lands' AisfolA, Bruce Weide, 8/31187, p.3: Montana laces Jry Slimmer,' Bruce Provo, Utah, may close down'. decision, Rocky Bar~er, 6/8/.87, p.~: What people who live in wolf country Fading, 6/8/87, p.l. - Utah's ban~ruptcy rate is h,gh, Gov. Anclrus begins work on pro- think about wolves. Nebraska wants another straw in the 312187, p.7. posed wilderness bilL Casatiias wolf husl tou/ti hurl U.S. Platte, Kathryn Ziewitz, 6/8/87, p.5: Explosive atmosphere snll!ls out Williams pushes harti for a .wiltier- patAs, Jim Robhins, 9/14/87, p.7. Controversy over the Platte River. hean'ng, Katharine Collins, 3/16/87, sess bill, Bruce Farling, 61221S7, Fish asti Wildlife Servi.. abastioss Access versus salmon in central pA: Controversy over possible clos- p.5:· Montana' Rep. Pat 'Williams wolves, Rocky Barker, 9/28/87, pA: Itiaho, Alice Koskela, 6/8/87, p.6: ing of a Louisiana-Pacific plant in tries to pass'bill. . ~ Wolf recovery plan and wolf reintro- Use of road to Yellow Pine affects Dubois, Wyo. Montana wilderness fIIay.host silver duction controversy. ' river. High birth rate dritJes Utah into the mine, John Holt, 6/22187, p.l. A Wyoming pac~ pulls down Mott, Missolln RJ'ver flows into SlIpreme grousti, Craig Bigler ,4/13/87, p.7. Snowmobilers oppose (J wildern.6.ss, Andrew MeInykovych, 9/28/87, p.~: .Court, Peter Carrels, 6/8/87, 'p.7: Hoover Dam - 1990s version: The Rocky Bar.ker, 716/87, p.3: Centen- Wolf recovery plan; Politics of Case deciding jurisdiction of BuRec SlIperconducting Collider, Steve nial Mountains, Mont., are subject of' support and opposition. over Missouri River goes to Supreme Hinchman and Ed Marston, 8/17187, dispute. If it's a wild and free animal, then Court. p.l. Idaho's governor tllrns wilderness kill it! Steve Johnson, ·10126/87, Amana sllrrenders a dam to s;;ve A Nobel laureate says the collider is Stoul, S/3/87, p.7: Gov. Andrus p.13: ·Criticism of federal Animal CAP, Florence Williams, 7/6/S7, irreleflant, Ed Marston, 8/17187, p.9: looks at the Palisades backcountry, Damage Control activities in Arizona. p.3: Cliff Dam plans dropped. Physicist Philip Anderson says col- proposed wilderness area. Grizzly is execlltetl despite legal A "hit list' dam is completed, lider is outdated. Tornado blows down U,DDD acres of mOfles)Joseph Piccoli, 11/9/87~ p.3: 8/3/S7, p.4: Ridgway Dam, Colo., South Da~ota: A 'gray horse' gathers trees, Jean Heller, 8/17/S7, p.k History of Yellowstone bear No. 83. completed after 30 years of opposi- some allies, Ed Marston and Peter Wyoming's Teton Wilderness hit by Home brew h#s bears hard, Diane tion. Carrels, 8/17/87, p.10: Sourh Dakota winds. Hackl, 11/9/S7, p.3: Effects of Colorado's- water laws lea~, say as candidate for collider. In an Idaho w~",e-ssJ lrekAing is railroad spill of corn in Montana. by air, Stephen Stuebner, 8/31/87, Gn'zzly pen proposed' for Dllbois, cnti&s, .Gary Sprung, 8/31/87, p.7: Arizona: The self-proclaimed 'hot I. Topics discussed at workshop on' prospect', Steve Hinchman. 8/17/87, p.5: Controversial improvement of ,. 11/23/87, p.3. • water in Gunnison, Colo.. p.10: Arizona as candidate for airstrip at Indian Creek. Does Par~ SeT1JJt:ehlne a gmzly , hit Loggers attac~' water ru/~s as too collider. C£rcllmnafliga#ng wild lands, James list'? Steve Hinchman, 11/23/87, stricl, Rocky Barker, 9/2S/87, p.3: Uta..h: Edllcation and liqllor ar( R. Conner, 8/31/87, p.~: Trek in pA. Idaho water quality. aflailable, Florence Williams, Montana promotes additional wilder- Wolf recovery is stopped dead, Goliath I, Daflid 0, Steve Hinchman, 8/17/87. p~ll. Utah as candidate for ness protection. ' .George Wuerthner and Mollie Mat- 9128/S7, pC1: Salt Lake City, Utah, collider. The fighl over Box-Dealh Hollow teson, 11/23/S7, p.IO: The stoty of area sewage industry vs. engineer> Monta,,-a: Chasing al'er enflironc Wilderness, Craig Bigler, 10/12/87, wolves in Montana and Wyoming. • 'critic Peter Maier. mental 'support, Ed Marston, p.1: Utah. Loo~i"g at wolfles -from a Montana Fatally flaweti. or perfeClly atie- 8/17/87, p,l1: Montana's candidacy' Cacop/J.ony of floit:es at wil"erness rancher's point 01 fliew, Ursula quate?, Steve Hinchman, 9/28/87, for collider. c.ongress, Staci Wertz, Hobbet, Martson, 11123/87, p.12. p. 11: The BOD-~ test and water Wyoming: Its act is definitely 'not 10/12187, pA: World·wide issues Wilti lurAeys fill as empty ecologital pollution control issues. together, Katharine Collins, 8/17/87,' discussed in Colorado. sithe, Chas. S. Clifton, 1217/87, p.4. Clt!fJnWater Act hasn't done the jo/;, p.12: Wyoming's candidacy for col· Coyoles II,! match for armetl helicop- Man enticed, anti then ~ilJed, Grizzly Steve Hinchman, 9/28/87, p.14: lider, . ters, Tim Gurri$ter, 10/26187, p.3: 83, Jean Heller, 1217/87, p.6. Exam'ple of water pollution problems Idaho: State has good t~rrain, poor· Debate continues ove! predator con- Trumpelisg al Reti RotA LIlAes,Maty along the Jordan River, near Salt 5thools, Rocky Barker, S/17/87, trol in Mouth, Nao~i Wilderness, Moran, 1217/S7, p.8: Refuge for Lake City,. Utah. P .12 :Idaho' s candidacy for ·collider. northern- , Utah. swans.

, \ February 1, 1988·· High Country Neurs-l l

•NATURAL HISTORY WRITERS Author and illustrator Ann Zwinger (Ru", River, Run) and naturalist Gary PaulNabhan (Gathering the Desert) are among writers you can meet this month at Utah's Museum of Natural History in

Salt Lake City. The program I• called "Writing Natural. History," is held under the auspices of the University of Utah and runs through Feb.22, ~with authors giving readings every Monday . at nooo. Other authors in the program- are Paul Brooks (RoaJless Area), Edward Lueders (Ref/ections on a G.lt 0/ Watermelon PidJe, editor), Terry Tem- pest Williams (Pieces of White Shell), . and Robert Finch (Common Graunt/). Two at a time, the writers will also talk about aspects of their work. Finch and Williams will discuss landscape, people and place on Feb. 8, Zwinger and Nabhan will talk about field notes and the literary process on Feb. n, and Brooks and Lueders will discuss natural history as literature on Feb. 22. All dialogues with authors are free and begin at 7:30 P.M. in the Fine Ans Auditorium at the University of Utah. For further information contact the LETTERS PROM YEllOWSTONE University of Utah, Utah Museum of Writer Jim Carrier, who has the Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT enviable job of roving the West as the' Rocky Mountain Ranger for the Denver 84112. Post, spent four months of 1986 living in CASUAL BLACK TIE Yellowstone National Park and writing Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado three stories a week about his exper- hosts its annual fundraising celebration iences. Now his Letters from Yellow- with a "casual black tie" party Feb. yth 1 ~ I! E t o 01 ~ T E P:, n l- stone are in a slim, elegantly illustrated at 8 p.m. at the Prudential Plaza J 0 Ii N WESLEY book that offers a broad, albeit Building in Denver. Aside from compli- somewhat sketchy, picture of the mentary beer, wine, hors d'ceurvee and POW E LL country's first national park. Carrier dancing, the group will present its writes about how 2.6 million visitors a award to the state's outstanding volun- year affect one of the continent's most teer of 1987. Tickets are $20 per person, sensitive ecosystems, and about how the ,n for a volunteer and '35 per couple. region affected him. Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado is at Roberts Rinehart Inc. Publishers, 1410 Grant St., Denver, CO 80223. Post Office Box 3161, Boulder, CO SEARCHING. POR 80303. Hardback $16.91, Paper $7.91. PAL CONS 140 pages. Illustrated by Robert Span- The Four Corners School. of Outdoor ning. Education, Utah Audubon Society, For- BEARS IN ARIZONA est Service and Bureau of Land Bear Tracker is a quarterly member- Management are co-sponsoring a three; ship publication of the Arizon~ Bear year research expedition to survey the Society, a group dedicated to protecting canyon country of southeast Utah for bears in Arizona. The fall issue of the endangered peregrine falcons. Inter- newsletter has an account of the killing ested birders can take part' in two M th~~ last grizzly in Arizona .on. Sept.", summer sessions c'osting $740 each with 13, 1981, by a Safford cowboy named biologist Clayton White of Brigham Richard R. Miller, who lived long POLLOWING THE LEADER Young University. Traveling by foot and enough to regret what he had- done. The To commemorate the centennial of four-wheel drive vehicle, "researchers society, formed in 1986, has a commit- John Wesley Powell's firat . expedition hope to locate nesting peregrines as well tee on reintroducing the grizzly to through the Green and Colorado rivers as other raprors , For more information Arizona, has sent a member to Italy to in 1869, authors Hall Stephens and contact Janet Ross, Four Corners investigate -how the grizzly (Ursus arotcs Eugene Shoemaker retraced the length School, East Route, Monticello, UT \\.",,, .... 11 ", of that trip in 1968. Under the auspices mariscanus) survives in that country', 84131, (~01J187}8.l9). ,,,., , and regularly holds events that attract' of the U.S. Geological Survey, they also surprising numbers of people. For took photographs recreating those taken example, a fundraising banquet in by photographers B.a. Beaman, James August, in Scottsdale we assume, drew Fennernore and John K. Hillers during 440 people and netted $32,000. Annual LANDSCAPING NATURAllY Powell's second expedition of 1871-12. membership dues are '20.' The group's Landscaping with wildflowers and F~w of die brigi'nal plates still exist ana· native plants wilt be presented by, the the collection of 'photogrilphs lias never'': address is: ABS, P.O. Box 9281, Scottsdale, AZ 81242. Denver Botanic-: Gardens. Feb. ~-6: been systematically published until ncw., Landscape designers and managers, Extensive research of those photo- botanists, horticulturists, landowners, graphs, their captions, .and the-diaries of home gardeners and anyone else inter- expedition members allowed' die' pre,s- ested in the esthetic, economic and ent-day team' 'to -identify ' some no environmental advantages of landscap- camera stations of the earlier photogra- ingwirhnative plants are encouraged to phers and make duplicate pictures, A, attend. Among the speakers is naturalist comparison shows that man has caused Gary Nabhan, author of The Desert the most o_bvious changes while nature's' Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in hand can be seen in beaches lost to Papago India" COU1Itry, and Gatheri1lg vegetation. 1" the Footsteps of john the Desert. Nabhan is currently aasis- Wesley Powell is a well-documented and taut director at the Desert Botanical objective'reference to the rivers' century Garden in Phoenix, Ariz. Other speakers of change. include Mike Alder, founder of Native Johnson Books, 1880 South Hth Plants, Inc., in Utah, David Northing- Court, Boulder, CO 80301. Cloth: ton, director of the National Wildflower $34.95. 28~ pages, illustrated. Research Center in Austin, Texas, WILD FILMS . THE LAST REPUGE representatives of the State Arboretum The lith Annual Wildlife Film Russ Arensman, who writes for the of Utah and state highway department Festival-will take place A.pril4-1l at the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, officials from Arizona and Colorado. The conference will be held at the Brown WOLP ADOPTION University of Montana in Missoula. A.ny tells us he recently received request a Palace Hotel in Denver and costs for The symbolic adoption of one of H individual, company, agency or film unit on his computer bulletin board from the sn Botanic Garden members, '8~ for wolves is possible at -a 60-acre tract mayor of Zushi, a city outside of Tokyo, making films about wildlife is encour- nonmembers. For more information called Wolf Haven near Olympia, aged to enter, with three films or videos Japan. Mayor "Kiichiro Tomino said:' contact the Denver Botanic Gardens at \Y1ashington. The only sanctuary west of . the maximum permitted. 'The deadline Zushi needed help protecting one of the 909 York sr., Denver, CO 80206 the Mississippi" Wolf Haven takes in for obtaining entry forms is March I, last remaining areas of virgin forest- in (303 I 7l-371 I). wolves from zoos, reserves, unive-rsity the Tokyo area. Since 194~, he said, the r and March 18 for sending the -fllm itself, research laboratories and families that Ikego forest has been used to store Entered films must have been made or YELLOWSTONE tried to. raise them as pets. Wolves are ammunition for the U.S. 'Navy. That released in 1987.' Other events -sched- South Dakota cinematographer Bob studied at the haven, and the non-profit uled that week include a wildlife photo made the forest off limits for people and' Landis doesn' t, mind ;wa,i~ipg, f9.t;'~,g90d organization also encQQrages awareness contest, workshoP. 6bcr-childre-n's filrils; allowed it to become the only sanctuary' sh~ts. Along ,with Dale J.ol)n.!top:iJLap~is and appr~ciation of-.,...th6\ an'im-als by Native AmerIcan"'1lNd Native' Canadian ," for wildlife ne'ar'·'Fokyo."" Rece-ntly,' spent months in Yellowston'e - National holding open houses and bringing some wildlife, films, and a wildlife ,filmmaking however, the Navy announced it plans to Park photographing its wildlife, geysers, animals into public schools. "Adop.ting" course and workshop. Wi.ldlif~·"groups build housing in the forest. To save the- indefatigable tourists and, one day, a a wolf for Sn brings adoption papers, a and conferences are invited to -schedule area for wildlife, Mayor Tomino is 'grizzly running at top speed to bring 3" x 3" black and white photo of the events in Missoula at' the same time. coming to the U.S.' this February to animal, "visitation rights, to _which mean appeal directly to Congress and environ. down an elk. The result is a videotape For rules, . entry forms and' more unlimited admission ,to the haven, and a mental groups. For more information, called YeHowston6: High COIl1l'" Tr6a· information, you can write to Norm subscription to a quarterly newsletter. Bourg or Cbarlei Janke! at IWFF, Arensman suggests contacting David R . Sflre, which is for sale for $34.95 plus Wolf Haven is at 311 Offur Lake Road, . University of Montana, Missoula, MT Hughes~ 6 N 24th Street, Colorad'o '2.10 postage from TrailwOOd Films, Tenino, WI. 98189. 19812, or ca11406/243.4493 or 728·0~41. Springs, CO 80904 (3031632·4Il1). . Box 14211., Huron, SO 17310. 12-High Country News -- February 1, 1988

Willlerness... not come with any reserved Sometimes they could tell us and he timber industry had federal water rights. This puts it sometimes they couldn't." sought language .to pre- (Continued from page l) into the fight over wilderness Just as the White Clouds Tvent co n serva n onrs t s water rights that originated with proposal pleases ORV users, it from fighting logging on roadless a victory by the Sierra Club Legal greatly disappoints conservation land released by the bill. They million unroaded acres has been Defense Fund in a federal district groups, especially since the pro- didn't get it. McClure said it was the subjecr of a long feud in court in Colorado (HeN, posed wilderness includes none impossible to write language that Idaho. Public hearings in prior 11/9/87). of the roadless {areas in the would prevent conservation years within the state have been The land fought over sprawls Challis National Forest. The groups from appealing timber divisive. In Congress, clashes across lightly-populated Idaho, same set of reactions occurred on sales using the Clean Water Act, between the ann-wilderness Ida- which has 1 million people and the Payette National Forest and, the National Environmental Pol- ho delegation, led by McClure, two congressmen. Portions of because of the lack of wilderness icy Act and other laws. and former public lands subcom- roadless areas proposed for wil- recommendations in the Lemhis But the timber industry did mittee chairman John Seiberling, derness designation include: the and in the Ten-Mile West road- get some local guarantees of D.Ohio, led to a stalemate. Palisades, Bear Creek, Poker less area, in the Boise National access to roadless areas. The bill Following the election of Peak and Winegar's Hole areas Forest. includes sections designed to Andrus as governor, he and on the Wyoming border; the But conservationists were override Forest Service planning McClure decided to settle the Lionhead, Italian Peaks and pleased with the inclusion of the - figures, so as to c:nsure that more wilderness question in private. It Scotchman's Peak areas on the heavily-forested North Fork of timber will be harvested in some seemed like a good match. ,. Montana border; Mount Naomi Meadow Creek in the Mallard- areas. The most sweeping Ian- McClure is the arch conservative . on the Utah border; Borah Peak, Larkins proposal in northern guage is a requirement that the -, a staunch defender of subsi- White Clouds, Pioneers and Idaho, and with the use of their Forest Service find 40.5 million dized logging roads, of maximum Sawtooth Completion _in Central proposed boundaries for several board-feet of timber to cut each forest cuts, of mining, and of the Idaho; Trinities, Snowbank northern Idaho areas, including year in the Bonner's Ferry rights of motorized recreation. Mountain, Secesh-Payerte Crest Scotchman's Peak on the .Monra- Ranger District in Boundary He has fought most of the major in the Boise and Payette national na border. However, they lost on County. It is designed to provide wilderness' bills of the last forests; - Kelly Creek-Cayuse the western border of the Mal- adequate timber supplies to mills decade, including the one that Creek, Mallard-Larkins in the lard-Larkins, which McClure and in Idaho's northernmost county. set aside the Frank Church-River Clearwater National Forest, and Andrus proposed for special It was offered to mitigate the of No-Return wilderness in Idaho. Selkirk Crest-Long Canyon and management which will allow effect' of designating Long Can- Andrus, on the other hand, Salmo-Priest in the Panhandle. logging. _ yon, a key timber area, as has excellent environmental ere- Off-road vehicle users were Mary Kelly, executive director wilderness. At least three million dentials. He is a former consul- pleased that several areas in of the Idaho Conservation board-feer of the 40.5 million tant for The Wilderness Society, eastern Idaho, most notably the League, a coalition of Idaho board-feet would come from and as President Jimmy Carter's Lemhi Mountains, would be groups, said, "We're disappoint- Situation 1 grizzly habitat, where Secretary of Interior, he _was excluded from wilderness under ed because of the number of the bear is supposed to be the point man in the effort to rein in this bill. And the White Clouds areas that were left out. " major management concern. federal water projects. He also proposal, at a little over 100,000 played a major role in the Alaska acres, is far less than the 450,000 Lands Act; which set aside more acres proposed in the 3.9 million wilderness than any other piece acre conservationist bill. of legislation. __" 0ltV .enthusiasts ffi'ere g~'l"1.ed. Despite political' and ideolog.- similar concessions in the Boi* ical differences, the two senior area, with trail corridors criss- Idaho politicians have been crossing the Trinities proposed friends since' they entered the wilderness, and special manage- public political stage in 1961 as ment, rather than wilderness freshmen state senators. Given designation, to allow motorcy- the strength' 'with which

McClure and Andrus said the tions; others, including TWS, 1:'r---:--:------~--:------,• logging should be possible with- rejected them and left the ,

Environmental Council. "We'll by Maughn and ORV lobbyist work for major improvements, Clark Collins of Pocatello. Stal- but they need to be major to lings said he was also open' to EXISTING WIWERNESS make it acceptable." At present, other changes. Rep. Larry Craig.- R-Idaho, ANDRUS/MCCLURE PROPOSAL. he said, "this bill is worse than says the acreage proposed for Areas include wilderness ami special no bill at all." wilderness by Andrus and management areas. Ralph Maughn, a member of the Sierra Club from Pocatello, McClure is too large. Sen. Steve REJECTED AREAS~ said the bill is a starting point. Symms, Rvldaho, has been silent Proposed wilderness areas on the issue. that were rejected. "Andrus and McClure deserve credit for trying to resolve the The key people who now must issue. Unfortunately, what be satisfied with the legislation they've produced is not accept- are Rep. Bruce Vento, n·Minn., able as written." who replaced Seiberling as head But Maughn said the bill can of the publiclands subcommittee, be 'fixed in Congress. "Take it or and Rep. Harold Volkmer, leave it is always a tough n-Mo., who chairs the agricultur- bargaining position, but I rarely al subcommittee on forests, fam- see any political issue that is ily farms and energy. really take it or leaveit. ". ' Vento works closely with Boise• Rep. Richard Stallings, national environmental groups, Dddaho, said he generally sup- and has enough clout to change Pocatello ports the proposal but is the bill. Volkmer's committee will Twin Falls • planning changes when the bill be involved due to the special • , gets to the House, He wants to management language that is add an area around Diamond part of the bill. , Peak in the Leinhi Mountains that was negotiated for inclusion ··Rocky Barker u

======~ McClure~Andrus wilderness bill is worse than nothing

______by Pat Ford

On Dec. 30 I sat in Gov. Cecil Andrus' office as 'he and Sen. James McClure unveiled their "statewide wilderness proposal" .for Idaho national forest lands. The room was crowded. Cables, cameras, lights, mikes, handlers, report. ers .. all' so feverishly engaged in such passive work. Whispering staff members lining the walls. Five squinting conservationists with long faces sat too far from the quickly turning maps to confirm just how bad the bad news was. Under the lights, Andrus and McClure moved smoothly through the script. The surrealiry of the event left me dizzy. The proposal itself came wrapped in fictions. The reporters (save one) did not know and could not inquire into what they were shown and told. And Idaho conservationists .. the five of us there could stand for the rest -.. had done so much without doing what was necessary. "We have agreed," Andrus and McClure said, on a "statewide wilderness proposal." But in fact, wilderness was a minor subtext of their agreement. Ninety percent of the wildlands it allocates •. 8 million of 9.3 million acres .. would Castle Peak.in the White Clouds not be wilderness. Their statements concentrated on the many laws. If there is no tinkering, and some major notion that reporters should inquire into the non-wilderness provisions; so will the legislative change, the bill won't pass. accuracy of what their cameras record is beyond text. Their proposal contains more special Our proposal, they said, will "settle the the format even if a reporter considered it. And, management provisions of more kinds than any wilderness problem in Idaho." In fact, it leaves of course, he or she will be off to a bigger state "wilderness bill" Congress has ever seen. the core conflict almost untouched. The market in a year anyway, so why bother. We developed this proposal, they said, "wilderness problem" is shorthand for many I spent last summer and fall working full. time without "any specific acreage figure," target or related issues .. timber harvest, aggressive eo influence this proposal. Since Dec. 30 I have ceiling. But in fact, keeping the wilderness roadbuilding, shrinking wildlands, degraded fish particularly pondered the hash made of my acreage low was a guiding logic. This is clearest and wildlife habitat, public land budget shares favorite place. That place is the White Cloud in central Idaho where nearly 1 million acres are and subsidies, and conflicts among economies Peaks and Boulder Mountains that form the excluded despite strong local support, important (notably timber and recreation). Bur the heart of largest unprotected roadless area left on the fish and wildlife habitat and little or no resource' the management stalemate is the Forest national forests :. about ~OO,OOOacresof peaks, conflict. _ Service's fast. track roadbuilding program, which canyons, basins" lakes and chain lakes ~:in Andrus' staff 'argued it is "de facto is slicing habitat, silting streams, destroying spectacular array upon array. It is part ofIdaho's wilderness" .. not threatened .. and so ruggedit backcounrry, and draining budgets. greatest natural, treasure, the Salmon River will stay wild without legislation. That is partly The rising grassroots challenge to this watershed. Wildlife is varied and abundant. It is true but the same can be said, indeed better reading will barely be deflected by this bill. Of the most popular wild area in southern Idaho said, of most they did include. Most of their 4,~00 new road miles planned for Idaho's and has overwhelming local support for proposed wilderness acres are rocks and ice, as national forests in the next decade, this proposal wilderness. Conservationists and sportsmen, de facto as acres excluded on that basis. No, would stop ~O.If passed, it will turn up the heat local officials and businesspeople support a these areas were left out because McClure had on the forests, not lower it. 4~O,OOO·acrewilderness. an acreage ceiling, and there would be no deal Those are the major fictions. Smaller ones McClure and Andrus propose 100,000 acres unless Andrus kept near it. That ceiling explains reside in specific provisions. A "special in two pieces ringed and separated by many exclusions and some very arbitrary management area" is proposed for the elk-rich off.road-vehicle corridors. Their boundaries split boundaries for areas which were included. French Creek area north of McCall, with timber watersheds and meadows. It is far worse than no This is a "package," they said. "We will not harvest constrained by what McClure calls "the wilderness at all, since it would enshrine in law accept major changes or much tinkering." In tightest elk protection language I've ever seen." one of the least-popular present uses .. off·road fact, the proposal deliberately leaves room for In fact, the language is apparently just the vehicles .. and thus gradually drive out the most some changes and opens itself to many more. general elk guidelines used throughout the popular .. hiking, horsepacking, backcountry Room is left in southern Idaho for Rep. Richard Payette National Forest today. hunting and fishing. The White Clouds would Stallings, Dvldaho, to add to the bill in return for The release language is "standard soft' become the Loud Clouds. his support. Srallings hasn't bitten. on that offer release. " In fact; special provisions provide How did this happen? Cecil Andrus' yet, in pan because he knows, .- as must back-door hard release (no future consideration distinguished record of conservation achievement McClure and Andrus .. that the long list of as wilderness) for large parts of the Clearwater began with the White Clouds; he rode his special provisions guarantees lengthy scrutiny National Forest by mandating timber manage- opposition to a huge proposed molybdenum mine and amendment in Congress. ment permanently. to Idaho's governorship in 1970. Idaho's top Some provisions seem doomed from the start: And so on. ORV spokesmen actively supported his opponent One mandates a north Idaho Forest district to There is little to say about the media's failure when AnrIrl.ls returned to the governorship in offer 40.~ million board feet of timber for harvest to challenge these fictions. Perhaps television 1986, while conservationists worked for him,

yearly » whareverthe market, cost, and impact news is capable in theory of. exploring public contributed funds and voted for him en masse. on other values .. and notwithstanding other issues in depth. In Idaho, it doesn't happen. The (Continued on page 15)

7 caused controversy, and rook in the 1970s by Idaho voters forts to rebuild anadromous fish Potato king... many years to build. when it tried to build a coal-fired runs in the Columbia depend on (Continued from page 1) But Simplot has had gran- power plant ...___Inaddition, the high flows from the Snake to Certainly, Simplot is thinking diose plans before, and has obstacles to consuming more flush sreelhead and salmon on an immense scale. Building succeeded in implementing them. , water out of the Snake River are smolts through eight large reser- 2,000 megawatts a year for 50 No one believed he could' turn high. The river is already over- voirs on the lower Snake and years would dwarf anything the Idaho's bountiful potatoes into an appropriated during the irrigation - Columbia rivers. Fish interests West has seen thus far. For immense fortune through his season, with its bed dry for n throughout the Northwest are

example, > the Intermountain Ore-Ida Foods. And no .one miles downstream of Milner sure to fight the Simplot propos- Power Project in central Utah is believed he would expand that Darn, until it is replenished at al. Inside Idaho, those concerned only 1,500 megawarts , while fortune in the computer software Thousand Springs, where about air quality and the effect of Colorado-Ute's large complex at business through his firm, Mi- groundwater from the Snake a large number of power plants Craig, Colorado, has 1,800 mega- cron, Inc. But he did both. River aquifer pours into the river. along the Snake will also enter watts. The three power plants at He faces an even larger task Fish are also an increasingly the battle, Colstrip, Montana, total 2,250 this time. however. The Idaho strong factor in the Columbia , megawatts. All of the projects Power Company was beaten back River basin. The expensive ef·· , ··Stephen Steubner ,II -) T LRT ."(1]. February 1, 1988 -- High Country News-15 Ultimately, only the West can save the West

Perhaps more than fine political and The staff of High Country News is like a economic calculations, we need to have faith. We troop of ancient priests fingering the entrails of need to believe that the Bureau of Reclamation, ' gutted birds in search of the furure. The entrails the U.S. Forest Service, the road-builders and rold the priests how much trouble the bird was the over-grazers won't have the last word'. ,We having capturing food, what kind of food it was have to believe that if they can be brought to finding, and perhaps even, by extension, about bay, and driven back from the land, narure will the overall qualiry of the environment. Out of retake, more quickly than we now hope, what thar bloody, malodorous information, the priesrs they have tried to destroy. predicted the fate of kings and armies, for both Perhaps coincidentally, stories on Indian ultimately travel on their stomachs. issues were prominent in HCN during 1987. It is our conceit that rhe stories in HCN can Indian issues are very complex, but surveying be' almost as useful to the rural West as ,the the entrails of our stories, it feels as if the tide birds were to ancient soothsayers. of coerced assimilation and acculruration of In 1987, HCN was dominated not by Indians is receding. As that tide recedes, one wilderness or water or mining or logging, but by sees that the Indian nations are still there, their wildlife: by everything from grizzlies to wolves to religions and languages damaged but alive. ferrets. Mter spending decades exterminating They are alive at a time when the salmon are - whatever moved, but especially the large being nursed back from the edge of extinction in predators, we are now debating at length and the Columbia River basin, when the white man's with great ferocity the extent to which wildlife .• agriculture is in retreat on the Great Plains, and and especially the predators' .. should move back when people are talking seriously of returning onto the land. part of the West to an older order. Things always make sense in retrospect, and Amidst signs of narural health, academic with hindsight we can see that the drive to researchers in 1987 told us of human' disease. In create wilderness, which culminated in 1984 with Montana. They are implicitly saying that they the rural West, young people in their teens and the many state bills signed into law by President are willing to accommodate themselves, and 20s are more at risk from suicides, drunken Reagan, would naturally be succeeded by a push their cattle and sheep, to big game. They accept brawls, auto accidents and random violence than to populate the sheltered land with wildlife'. game's tremendous economic value; they are young people in deprived urban ghettos. Those The fight is more difficult than that over simplyfighting for some of the money. who say they want to live in a small Western wilderness. Wilderness can be defined by lines It would be wrong to see the wildlife struggle town because it's a great place to raise children as purely economic. The desire of so many on a map; it lends itself to certainty, But as the are fooling themselves. roaming wolvesand grizzlies of Montana and the people to see grizzlies and wolves again roam The start of another year should be a time for the West is based on emotion .- on ,the wandering bison of Yellowstone National Park optimism, but the onlybright sign we, can find in sense that the West lost a vital part of itself prove, wildlife is not subject to the drawing of this area is the recent banning of three-wheeled when it wiped out those predators, or confined line's. ORVs .- destructive toys which many young The new concentration on wildlifecould prove them to a few corners of the land. people use to first trash the public land, and powerful. The drive to reintroduce the large We can see this stirring in other places. It is then to trash themselves. predators, and restore some balance to nature, easy to mock Interior Secretary Donald Hodel's There may be a lesson here for the may go well beyond wilderness legislation in suggestion 'that California's Hetch Hetchy Valley environmental movement. In generaC the next to Yosemite be reclaimed. But that proposal -preserving and recreating some of what we have movement has tried to save the West despite n!loS'(?~1- m.en-:) bile- ~;*.&i- .e.z1£-e&.:i- -.-BH·-''' n....~ . "i'titre

areas out. But no one imagined the proposed gain, from lock-up to keep open, from past to MeClure-Antlrus ... White Clouds wilderness in this proposal would future, from land use to land ethic. We had the be the biggest threat to the White Clouds since ideas and could have found the money. We (Conhnued from page 14) that molybdenum mine 18 years ago. didn't, and the politicianwho is Idaho's governor is signalling the consequences. Moreover, ,economic development is his top I keep returning to a phrase Andrus has been We did work, growing expert at staving off prioriry, and a large White Clouds/Boulder using for the past year .. "the wilderness immediate threats to wild places, making Wilderness would further it dramatically in problem." He is trying to "settle the wilderness - localized progress on public attitudes, making recreation-dependent central Idaho. Andrus problem." All last summer and fall we used a some political progress. The Andrus/McClure knows the country personally; he shot a different language. In letters, ads and publiciry package is obviously superior, statewide, to mountain goat in the Boulders this past fall. we tried to presenthim in central Idaho with the McClure's 1984 proposal. But the transformation Yet his White Clouds proposal is' acrually arguments and backing to seize the "wilderness of public perceptions that we require has not less, much less, than Idaho's leading Republican opportuniry." That's why the economic case for occurred. Now the exigencies of substantially politicians and anti-wilderness zealots .. Steve wilderness was ridden so hard. improving or fighting this legislation will Symms, George Hansen, and Larry Craig -- We didn't get through, or if we did Andrus dominate our time. proposed for the area in 1984. The word I keep chose not to tackle McClitre on that ground. So We will do all right, but we will.have many hearing from old Andrus friends, supporters and Idaho conservationists have the challenge today opportunities to regret what we did not do in local Democrats is "unfathomable." we had, and dropped, in 1984. With John 1985, 1986, and 1987. ' The many people who love the 'White Clouds Seiberling's leadership in Congress, we stopped - are determinedly low-key, bur they are baffled Jim McClure's attempt to pass a terrible Idaho o and hurt. We knew the boundaries would bebad wilder.less bill. We bought breathing space for a Freelancer Pat Ford worked on the wilder- where McClure drew them, and might be bad badly-needed positive statewide education effort ness proposal for the Idaho Conservation League where the timber conflicts are intense. We knew to reverse the terms surrounding wilderness .. last year. McClure'sacreage ceiling would keep deserving from problem to opportunity, from job loss to job J 16-High Cou"try News -- Febrrlary 1, 1988 Snowcaves: excellentplaces to spend cold ,wet nights

___ ,by Mark Jenkins 1lm':'------the cave digger. ~ The tent is also an indispensable ~ A smooth, violet blanket has ;;: back up when building a cave is dropped over the sky; it's so close '" impractical because your temporary you can 'almost wipe your fingers i:;; home-site. has no drifts, small drifts across it. The snow around you is or ice-hard. drifts; you andlor your blue, soft and deep. Although it is parry are already cold, wet or almost dark, the thought of leaving, exhausted; and tunneling a cave returning to the noise and lights of could make marters worse. In shan, town, is repugnant; you want to for most winter excursions, the tent spend the night out; camp in the is both more efficient and more snow, in the mountains. functional than the celebrated snow- .. "Build a snowcave," is the cave. thought that flashes through your But not all tents are created mind. Simply burrow into a nearby equal. An A-frame pup tent will tear drift and sleep soundly, cuddled by like tissue paper in the first savage nature's insulator. storm. A tent capable of withstand- Although few people have built ing the rigors of winter, a "four-, and slept in a snowcave, the season mountain tent, " is expensive snowcave is famous .. everyone raves. .. $250-$500 -- but worth the about snowcaves. It is the hand- hewn investment if you, plan to winter home with vaulted ceilings, Roman camp much. Most modern mountain Lisa Johnson enters a snow cave in Leadership School expeditio". arches and a tunnel entrance, a tents are sleek, hump-backed beasts Wyoming during a National Outdoor shelter as snug' as a pika's den with tough nylon or Gore-rex skins beneath the blizzard, the ultimate and aluminum ribs. morning hour we tried to list all the weather, terrain and altitude will winter accommodation. A snowcave What size is best? The heavier things we had done wrong, the pros dictate which shelter is most appro- can be all these things. It can also be the tent, the more cold air tent and cons of a snowcave. priate. Each has its advantages and the wrong choice. dwellers must warm with their The next morning we skied out. disadvantages. Years ago I decided to introduce bodies. A tent just small enough to That was an atypical winter trip, A tent can be erected quickly in a close friend to winter camping. be comfortable is best. Too, the and yet the conditions we encoun- almost any geography without ex- With visions of a warm cavern and simpler the set-up procedure the tered were those many suggest are hausting or soalting the camper. It is hot chocolate we slid smack into a better. Trying to figure out which ideal for cave building. It was portable; dry inside and has easy Rocky Mountain whire-our. The high- pole goes in which sleeve, in a storming, night was falling and drifts exit! entrance access. It is not warm, er we skied, the more the weather blizzard, is annoying. Finally, al- were abundant. Still, other snow- can in the worst tempest be torn deteriorated. Soon the distinction though the debate over which fabric caves have been accommodating. apart, and loud in the wind. The between falling snow and snow on is more functional -- Gore-tex or One year we mined a grotto that snowcave requires a sizable drift, is the ground vanished. regular nylon -- rages on, a Gore-rex could sleep 10 people. The ceiling relatively warm if the living quarters After ascending for five hours in tent has no rainfly and is therefore was high enough for a game of golf are excavated on a higher plane than progressively deeper snow, we quicker to erect. This factor may be with ice axe clubs and balls of the entrance, and quiet. A snowcave slumped into a bergschrund .. at the offset by the fact that a tent with a knotted wool socks. (Four days later is always wet and takes at least 30-40 base of a rock wall. Visibility had double wall .- two layers of fabric the ceiling had sagged so far we minutes to build, In that time the dropped to the, tip of our skis; the with an air space in between -- is used the axes to hold it up.) AnotHer caver will become soaked. Finally, wind clawed at our backs. On the arguably warmer than a single wall winter we carved out a cave with one the exit and entrance to a snowcave way in we had passed many. tent. Other subtleties play a role in entrance and a three-leaf clover floor is inconvenient. house-size drifts, prime forms for how well a tent functions but are plan, each side room slept two Usually a snowcave is best suited snowcave architecture. But searching more subjective. cavers. to the following circumstances: on an for just the, right white mound had _ Pleasurable winter tenting re- expedition where the weather is become impossible. We chose the In truth, a snowcave is not a quires planning. Always bring a torturous and the cave will be used bergschrund wall in' front of us, universal winter shelter; it is often shovel is the first rule. With it, there for many days; as a multi-day pulled out our shovels, and attacked. not easy 10 build and not as warm as are numerous ways to make a tent basecamp, hub f~r wagon-wheel ski The snow was ~ot much softer a living room. Furthermore, a warmer and less susceptible 10 wind. tours; .for shorter trips if the primary than ice; each jab with the shovel snowcave built incorrectly can be If no natural wind-blocks exist for purpose of the camp out is to build a plopped out only a softball-size cold and dangerous. your site and the snow is hard- snowcave. chunk. Spading even the smallest Enter the alternative: a tent,. the packed, build a thick, self-supporting cave would be an arduous chore. high- tech, 20th century counterpart A tent is the manifestation of snow wall around the tent. For even domicile versatility. For any trek But I had promised my friend a to the Sioux teepee I wigwam or more protection, spade a trench 1-2 night in' the legendary snowcave, so Tibetan yurt. A portable home, where a new camp site in a new feet deep and set in your tent. In we dug. weighing less than a kitchen ap- location is made each day, a tent is deep powder, stamp the tent site on It took four hours to excavate a pliance, capable of being set up in ideal. Building a snowcave, after all, skis, then in boots' alone. After hole no bigger than a fat couch. The less time than it takes to make a would be a waste of calories and erecting the tent, fill in snow along effort soaked our long underwear, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. time. On a weekend camp-out, the its perimeter to a height of 10·20 wool pants and sweaters with sweat. Side by side, snowcave versus tent dweller has more time to slice inches. This drift will not only make From groveling in snow our wind- tent, which is best? A combination of telernarks or plop headplantsthan the tent more wind resistant but also pants and parkas were drenched. We create an insulating dead air space if crawled into the cave wetter than you're using a tentfly. muskrats, both shivering fiercely. It Natural wind blocks are some- was pirch dark and colder than a How to dig yourself in times abundant. A stand of closely meat locker inside. clustered trees or the lee of a large My body became torpid and my 1. Choose a drift six to 10 feet high two feet above the first. rock, drift or trees ate excellent speech was slurred. Through a composed of solid but not hard snow. 7. The height of the apex should be locations. mental fog I recognized hypothermia. 2. Build the entrance tunnel on the only high enough for a person to sit Obtaining enough stake purchase I tried to concentrate on simple lee side of the drift using a large on the sleeping platform without his can be difficult, Snow stakes of long tasks: Light the stove. Scrape snow scoop shovel. or her head touching the ceiling. A aluminum or plastic blades are from the cave wall into a pot. Eat a 3. Keep the entrance hole as small ceiling any higher is a waste of essential. In their absence choose a handful of nuts. Remove wet cloth- as possible and dig upward. energy and only creates more air site near protruding vegetation or a ing. Get into sleeping bag. For an 4. Dig approximately three to five space" that .rhe body or stove must rockformation; guy lines can arrest a hour, life was reduced to a monosyl- feet in and three feet up. The slope warmup." • tent attempting to take flight. labic pantomime, every action per- 'of your entrance tunnel. should be no 8. Punch an air hole straight up over formed in an instinctive haz e .' - less than 25 degrees. the first level. o Eventually water was boiling. Hot 5. Hollow out the ceiling so that it is 9. Dig' a cupola on a cave sidewall chocolate never meant so much. evenly arched to a center point. The big enough to accommodate your Freelance writer Mark Jenkins of That night was cramped, cold and more domed the ceiling, 'the less stove, pots, pans and food. If your Laramie, Wyoming, tells us he almost sleepless. After warming up, likely it will collapse. stove -is inefficieJm 'or, leaks - gas, spends "about half of every year in a we widened the floor so as not to 6. Cut a two-level platform. The first punch an air hole above where the sleeping bag on some mountain and .sleep with our shoulders overlapping. level should slope off into the- stove will be used. . the other half in front of a computer Throughout the night we punched entrance runnel, the second, the 10. If possible, cut a snow block that writing about it." He was a climber out the' ventilation hole, plugged and sleeping platform, should be one to will fir snugly in the entrance. on both the 1986 U.S. Everest North replugged the entrance to block Face Expedition and the 1984 Amer- gushing spindrift. At some dark early ican Xixabangma Expedition: , \