18,000 Tons of Keys Muck Put in Limbo: A Plan to Dump Tons of Muck From the 18 Mile Stretch Project into a State Park is Dead, but Just Where the Stuff Will Wind Up Remains Unresolved
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Dec. 18--The state has pulled the plug on a plan to dump more than 18,000 tons of excavated muck from the 18 Mile Stretch widening project into ocean-side rock pits at a North Key Largo park.
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By Jeffrey S. Hampton, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 18--A public hearing scheduled for tonight could determine whether a contract to build a giant landfill in Camden County will be extended to pay early dividends and accept trash from a reduced number of states.
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WASHINGTON _ The House of Representatives on Tuesday drove a stake through President Bush's proposal to study draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the storied place some thought could once again rival Yosemite Valley.  But in truth, the idea was dead on arrival several months ago.
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By Cammy Clark, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--KEY WEST -- In 1996, dive boat captain Joe Weatherby started combing through files of 500 mothballed military ships looking for the perfect one to sink and turn into the Keys' largest artificial reef.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 2--There's not enough water on Squalicum Mountain to serve a substantial number of homes, and drilling more wells for new houses may rob existing houses of water, a Whatcom County geologist told county officials.
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Quietly last year, after a round of harsh criticism, a Bush  administration proposal to sell national forest land appeared to die.  The sales would have generated funds to extend for five years a program that directed money to rural localities with forest land within their boundaries.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 25--It's one of the oldest historical sites in Minnesota. But that doesn't mean folks are lining up to own it.   A decade after the federal government closed the U.S.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 4--A year-old development moratorium in the traffic-stuffed Salmon Creek area may be extended for another 12 months and could have to stretch three years beyond that.
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By Fred Hiers, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  May 30--OCALA -- Every few days, the Ocala National Forest is marred.  Piles of trash, abandoned boats and cars, leaking batteries and worn out tires  are illegally dumped, scarring the landscape like cancerous tumors.
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Where does America end? In the age of high-tech undersea mapping, redefining long-settled borders is a trillion-dollar question.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 17--Conservation groups and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's administration are considering ways to save a 387-acre tract on the Northern Neck that a Girl Scout organization wants to sell.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.
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By Tenisha Waldo, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 14--The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission is applying  for a $200,000 state grant to use toward its $1.5 million commitment to help  preserve the uninhabited northern tip of Morris Island.
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Town officials are hoping the state can unearth $1.4 million to help bring sewers to the Medway 495 Business Park. Otherwise, they say, some 250 area jobs may be lost -- not to mention thousands of dollars in annual tax revenue.
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By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Sep. 13--A coalition of marine-conservation groups issued a reminder Tuesday to Florida's candidates for governor: Don't forget the ocean.
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At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of a troubled highway project that is already the costliest in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 9--The final cleanup of a dump along the Nooksack River's south fork could cost a half million dollars or more, but no source for that money is immediately available.