Davidson Canyon's Future: Opponents of Planned Open-Pit Mines Fear Effects on Wildlife, Landscape
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By Tim Ellis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 14--Residents of Tucson's far Southeast Side and others who oppose a plan to mine in Davidson Canyon are pondering their next move after a couple of recent setbacks.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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Two environmental outfits, Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense, have issued a study called "Climate Alert: Cleaner Energy for the Southwest." Predictably, the groups oppose the construction of a planned new $3.8 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant near Ely.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 15--SAN FRANCISCO -- Opening of a 3-mile trail into coastal lands north of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant will take an additional six to 12 months to complete because of disagreements over the extent of access.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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By Shanna Hogan, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 5--Conservationists spent more than a year gathering 300,000 signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot that would preserve 694,000 acres of state trust land.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.
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Normally, transportation routes through wilderness are frowned on by conservationists. But a newly restored railroad in Madagascar is persuading locals not to slash and burn the surrounding landscape.
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By JUSTIN CARINCI  A path winds past ponds and under cone-bearing and leafy trees at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center.  On a bleak April day, a fish hatchery squeezed between state Highway 14 and Southeast Evergreen Highway seems an unlikely place for natural beauty.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 7--Pima County is taking the State Land Department to court in an attempt to overturn a decision allowing mining in Davidson Canyon.
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SNOWBIRD - The mining industry helped build Utah&#39;s economy, but boom-time digging led to a modern-day landscape pockmarked with holes that once produced silver, gold, copper and lead.
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As chronic wasting disease spreads through populations of deer and elk in some states, hunters are finding that their quarry may not be safe to eat.
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By ERICA MELTZER, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Grijalva may have big say as member of House panel  Southern Arizona's congressional representatives say they will do what they can to stop mining at Rosemont Ranch in the Santa Rita Mountains.
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By Anonymous  ENVIRONMENT  After a decades-long fight between Revett Silver Co. and conservation groups concerning a proposed silver and copper mine in northwest Montana, the US. Fish and Wildlife Service cleared the way for Revett Silver to begin production.
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By Christina Vance, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 10--The Sierra reminds me.   Trail hikers frequently talk of coming to their senses in the high places -- finding escape from the din of cell phones and honks of cars. They leave behind stuff-crammed buildings, carrying only a bag.