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GAO Forest-Thinning Study Sparks New Controversy
Opinion -Supporters of President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative have a new study to cite as proof reforms are needed in the federal government’s forest management effort. -
Too Many Students Flunk Writing
Opinion -In response to growing concerns in the business, education, and policy-making communities about the low level of student writing skills, a blue-ribbon panel is recommending a writing agenda for the nation that includes doubling the time most K-12 -
A Bridge Too Far?
Opinion -Looking out my bedroom window, I see what to me is paradise. Old, mature oak trees scattered amidst rolling pasture. A leisurely, two-lane country road, Ft. Hamer Road, separates my backyard from the cows and horses grazing in Rawls farm. -
Western States Challenge Feds on Environment
Opinion -The Wyoming and Utah state governments have learned a lesson from their sister states in the northeast and are increasingly taking their environmental arguments to the federal courts. -
Colorado Lynx Releases to Proceed
Opinion -In mid-March, Colorado’s Division of Wildlife (CDOW) announced plans to import from Canada up to 180 lynx to release in Colorado’s national forests. Releases began on April 3. Earlier such efforts, begun in 1999, have failed. -
New Book Series Encourages Critical Thinking in Youth
Opinion -Critical Thinking About Environmental Issues by the Center for Free Market Environmentalism (PERC) and Competitive Enterprise Institute Greenhaven Press, 2002, cloth Two free-market policy groups have collaborated to launch a new series of books for -
Environmental Regulations Impede Pentagon Readiness
Opinion -With the United States in the second year of its war on terrorism, the nation’s ability to prepare troops for the deadly business of combat is being undermined by environmental restrictions being applied to military bases around the country. -
Court Blocks Oil Recovery, Indian Whaling
Opinion -Also in December 2002, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made two other controversial rulings affecting environmental laws. -
EPA Cracks down on Army Corps Toxic Sludge
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to force the Army Corps of Engineers to all but eliminate its long-standing practice of dumping toxic sludge in the Potomac River. -
Saving Prairie Dogs … to Kill Them
Opinion -Phillips County, in north-central Montana along the Canadian border--an area once described as “an almost mythical place, a world of savage blizzards and withering droughts in a geography too vast to comprehend”--contains miles of sparse scrub grass, -
Medicare Drug Follies
Opinion -Our senior citizens should have the life-saving medicines they need without going broke or giving up life’s other necessities in the process. However, we need to inject or infuse a dose of common sense into the treatment plan. -
Losing our heritage, our land
Opinion -The National Heritage Areas Act (HR 2388), sponsored by Reps. Joel Hefley (R-Colorado) and Nick Rahall (D-West Virginia), would do for land grabs what the assembly line did for automobiles. Private property would go the way of the horse and buggy. -
Forest Service still spinning the Thirty Mile Fire
Opinion -A year after last July’s deadly Thirty Mile Fire, the U.S. Forest Service’s public relations spin continues. -
Big wins for Wise Use and property rights
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives considered the Interior Department appropriations bill in July, and advocates for access to public lands and private property rights won important victories. Snowmobiles amendment. Reps. -
Bush retains Clinton-Gore legacy at USFS
Opinion -Another public land squabble is shaping up in “Bush Country” with the announcement that U.S. -
EPA gives Army Corps green light to dump toxic sludge
Opinion -The Army Corps of Engineers should be allowed to continue dumping toxic sludge into the Potomac River, according to an Environmental Protection Agency document, because the sludge encourages fish to flee the area and its resident fishermen. -
Court defends property rights, narrows the scope of ESA
Opinion -It took a quarter of a million dollars and three years, but rancher Jeff Menges and the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association (ACGA) have won a major ruling on how cattle grazing can occur on federal public lands in Arizona. -
Local issues take center stage in environmental debates
Opinion -A tried and true political adage declares “all politics are local.” Those who doubt it need only look at the past year in environmental news to see the truth in the saying. -
NAS debunks Klamath water shutoff
Opinion -The federal shutoff of irrigation water last year to farmers around Upper Klamath Lake on the Oregon-California border not only was unnecessary to preserve allegedly endangered suckerfish and salmon, but likely harmed the fish, according to a report -
New York Times promotes Great Salmon Hoax
Opinion -On February 14. the editors of the New York Times threw their full weight against efforts to restore sanity to natural resource management in the West ... and they told a lot of whoppers in the process. -
Federal deal-making threatens citizens’ rights
Opinion -If you care about CARA, the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, and the continued management of fish and wildlife resources for the benefit of all citizens of the United States, you might be -
Forest Service caught submitting false visitor numbers
Opinion -At the same time the lynx and grizzly bear scandals were being uncovered, the U.S. Forest Service was forced to admit still another instance of providing false information. -
Balancing act
Opinion -The first line of defense for a sound, common-sense approach to environment issues is made up of local citizens participating at the grassroots level.
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