Wilderness articles

Recent articles from Wilderness

Congressional year-end report card not good.(congressional environmental record for 1995)
December 22, 1995... The 104th Congress, one of the most partisan in our nation's history, concluded its work for 1995 by compiling the worst environmental record ever. Although the determination of President Clinton and moderate Republicans helped blunt some of the leadership's radical agenda, real damage was...

On the ground in the nineties.(need for cooperation in conservation efforts)
December 22, 1995... In Losing Ground, his flawed but nevertheless provocative autopsy on the mainstream environmental movement, Mark Dowie comes to one particularly incisive conclusion: "In the end, the value of mainstream organizations will be measured by how effectively they work with grassroots...

Nevada: a phony showdown with real guns.(challenges to federal land management policies)
December 22, 1995... Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada: Out here in the sun-blistered, wind-blasted, sage-and-silver spaces of southwestern Nevada, discussions of national politics are less frequently heard than a discouraging word. That dusty red pickup, zigzagging up Main Street, past ashen slag heaps and rickety...

Utah: a wilderness shell game.(dispute over wilderness protection)
December 22, 1995... Utah Governor Mike Leavitt peered out from the gunner's seat of a National Guard Black-Hawk helicopter as the pilot whisked him, his aides, a few county commissioners, and a pair of environmentalists on a bumpy overflight of southern Utah's red rock country. This ostensible fact-finding mission...

Washington: holding their own in the Okanogan.(wilderness protection)
December 22, 1995... For most of us, being a conservationist doesn't cost much. We make out a check now and then, pay a few cents extra for green products, devote an hour here and there to writing letters and attending meetings. But for environmental activists in the Okanogan highlands of north-central Washington,...