Unhappy Trails: Splitting Turnagain Pass: ACCESS: Chugach National Forest Struggles With a Plan to Please Snowmachiners, Skiers.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--On the busy days at Turnagain Pass, the Chugach Mountains rumble with the roar of snowmachines.
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By David Usborne in New York  There is something doleful about the whispering of the white- barked aspen trees that carpet the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It is a sound of sickness and death.
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By Melissa Devaughn, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 10--In the deeply forested lands of Afognak Island, fewer than 1,000 Roosevelt elk wander freely, ignorant of the property lines they cross. They ford creeks, climb ridges and wade through kettle ponds.
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In the snow sports industry, progress doesn't just trump aesthetics. It usually obliterates everything in its path.
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RUTLAND, Vt. -- Vermont State Police say they are looking to crack down on skiers who recklessly go off resort trails and become lost, prompting full-scale searches. Four Pennsylvania men who skied out of bounds last month at Killington and spent a cold night in the woods may be the first this season to get a bill.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 14--The Summit at Snoqualmie ski area has settled on an expansion plan after input from conservation groups.   The plan for expansion is smaller than what the four-area resort wanted.
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 16 -- Expert mountaineers tried Saturday to take advantage of easing weather conditions atop Mount Hood in the search for three missing climbers, but the fickle and still-treacherous conditions turned them back.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The Bush administration's aggressive drive to promote oil and gas drilling on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains has sparked growing anger here among traditional Republican constituents who say that the stepped-up push for energy development is sullying some of the...
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Dec. 15--A plan to trade state-owned land along the Gunflint Trail above  Grand Marais for land elsewhere in Cook County appears dead.   The Cook County Board and Grand Marais City Council this week unanimously  opposed the trade.
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By CHASE SQUIRES  DENVER - Something is killing the aspen trees of the Rocky Mountain West.  Or so it seems to some scientists, who say the slender, white-bark trees that paint the hills gold every autumn are dying, leaving bald patches across the Rockies.
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By RUSSELL MAX SIMON Journal Northern Bureau  SANTA FE -- Information about a planned tree-thinning project being distributed by a newly formed environmental group has Santa Fe environmentalists in an uproar and city officials accusing the group of scare tactics.
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Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
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By SE RUCKMAN  PAWHUSKA -- Private landowners voiced strong opposition this week to a proposed Osage Nation environmental law that would assert jurisdiction over the wildlife, land and water on its reservation.
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RENO, Nev. - It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle them.  The saga began Nov.
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Supporters see federal move granting greater flexibility. Critics predict more logging.
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By GARY PERILLOUX  Two bills that would benefit forest-product makers have drawn the ire of the Louisiana Chemical Association because its membership wouldn't get the same deal.
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Jason Davis knelt in a snow-filled ditch beside a frozen gravel road, the bill of his baseball cap nearly touching four small marks in the snow. As he examined the marks, more than a dozen other animal trackers gathered around. The trackers are volunteers with Cascadia Wild, which has organized the Wolverine Tracking Project for the past five years to bring urbanites closer to nature and gather information about animal species in Mount Hood National Forest.