Ruling to Halt Forest Fee Will Be Appealed: $5 Requirement for Mt. Lemmon, Canyons at Stake
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 16--The federal government has given notice that it will appeal a magistrate's ruling that could lead to elimination of $5 daily user fees in popular recreation areas, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.  Last month, the Land Department rejected an administrative appeal filed by the county in December.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--As of Thursday it became official: If you feed wild animals in Pima and Maricopa counties, you may pay a price.   We're not talking about the obvious price that people pay for treating bears and mountain lions with a Disneyesque innocence.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--GAUTIER -- City personnel are seeking grant money to fund an environmental court that would help enforce Gautier's laws on property care and cleanup.
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By David Clouston, The Salina Journal, Kan.  Sep. 2--ABILENE -- A federal court of appeals in Denver will hear oral  arguments later this month on an appeal by the operators of the Lion's Den  Adult Superstore challenging an ordinance that bans the business from its  current location.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE  DENVER - A bill designed to stop the Army from condemning private land to expand the Pion Canyon Maneuver Site made it through a House committee Tuesday, though even some of its supporters admitted it likely is unconstitutional.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 21--A new law prohibiting the intentional feeding of wildlife goes into effect today and running afoul of the measurecould result in a $300 fine.   The purpose of the law, which was sponsored by state Sen.
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A judge Tuesday tossed out a legal challenge aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush. In election challenges in two other states, a recount was sought and another was ended.
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A U.S. federal appeals court  has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to suspend oil  exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast  of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by  environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
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The Supreme Court made it harder Monday to recover legal fees from the government, ruling against a woman who sued for the right to form a peace sign in the nude in a Florida park.
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By TERENCE CHEA  SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday reinstated a Clinton administration ban on the building of roads in untouched sections of national forests.  U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte sided with states and environmentalists who sued to protect forest land.
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By Douglas Fischer, STAFF WRITER  A federal judge Wednesday upheld a Clinton-era decision leaving vast roadless tracts of the country's national forests off-limits to logging trucks, drilling rigs and other traffic.   The decision, by U.S.
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By Edward Fitzpatrick; Journal Staff Writer  The court rejects the appeal of a woman who was injured in a fall in a park, but wants the General Assembly to change wording in the Recreational Use Statute.
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By Kristen Moulton, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--BRIGHAM CITY -- The Box Elder County Commission has said no to  the county attorney's negotiated settlement of a dispute over public access to  a road.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 9--Mint Hill, Stallings and Indian Trail will have to limit development in a watershed that's home to an endangered mussel, a state panel ruled Thursday.
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By Rob Young, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 13--Sutter County supervisors could not muster the votes Tuesday to extend a moratorium on splitting land parcels in the Meridian and Robbins basins and around the Sutter Buttes.