Trashing Wing Mountain
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By The Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff  Jun. 24--A cinder pit used for target practice that is ankle-deep in  trash.   A once-beautiful, aspen-ringed campsite reduced to stumps.   A hillside laced with 2-foot-deep tire ruts.
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By Todd Hollingshead, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--PROVO -- Some landowners who want out of Pleasant Grove have  taken their case to 4th District Court.    Stanley B.
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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.
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By Bob Hood, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 4--If the inside of your tackle box looks like a can of worms, it's probably time to empty it and start over.
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By DANA BARTHOLOMEW  LAKE VIEW TERRACE -- For decades, neighbors shut their windows to the hideous smell, dust and noise from the Lopez Canyon Landfill.  Now city officials are asking community members to help plan a park on the former 400-acre dump.
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By Brian Sargent, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 3--An Oklahoma expert on bald eagles said Friday it would be a good decision to remove the bird from the federal government's list of endangered species.   ------   A federal judge ordered last year the U.S.
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By Patrick Lester, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 15--The federal government has announced plans for an estimated $19 million cleanup of a Berks County toxic waste site nearly 25 years after a potentially cancer-causing chemical was found in drinking water there.
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Also: UN warning on e-waste 'mountain.' Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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More park stewards in the West are removing outhouses from trails and asking hikers to pack out their own waste.
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The National Park Service is clashing with a landowner at the site of the Flight 93 crash over a cash donation box he installed there that relatives of Sept. 11 victims say is an insult to their memories.
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By Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 19--Here's one way to get rid of those old campaign lawn signs -- hawk them on eBay.
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I have no problem with the photograph but why would you bother publishing the story of a complete waste-of space family in the first place? Giving such people any publicity is something you and all media should be ashamed of.
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By Tammy Alhadef, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--TRINIDAD -- Forty acres of land within the Spanish Peaks state wildlife area were removed from a U.S. Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sale after a protest by the Colorado Wildlife Federation.
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By Rich Hewitt, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Mar. 5--SEDGWICK -- A proposed contract for three peninsula towns to continue to haul trash to the Blue Hill-Surry transfer station could face tough sledding if the discussion at the annual town meeting in Sedgwick is any indication.
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By LEE ROSS Mountain View Telegraph  A rummage sale, a rock quarry and a costly court case are all part of an ongoing dispute between San Pedro Rock and an East Mountains neighborhood association.
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By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times  Mar. 8--Removing two dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River would flush enough dirt and gravel downstream to fill a million dump trucks.
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By Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 3--Thomas Wood, owner of a now-defunct Chugiak auto repair shop, thought he would get rid of his waste oil and chemicals on the cheap by paying a couple of young men who apparently wanted the stuff to set fires at Jim Creek.