Taylor Orr, a former Forest Service employee of 15 years, was stunned to find a new Forest Service repeater antenna installed on Odell Mountain, because he knew that’s prohibited within a wilderness study area.
An overflow crowd of more than 400 people descended on the Bureau of Reclamation Conference and Training Center in Boulder City, Nevada, this week seeking answers to their questions regarding the dropping lake level at Lake Mead and the inability to launch their boats.
Sarah Aswell writes, "Tackling it means talking about it, informing others, and finding a way to cope with what’s happening to the world around us. We’ll need to respond with everything we have, and that includes some punchlines."
Looking to make progress on its quest to achieve carbon neutrality, the Missoula City Council this week approved an energy contract to begin implementing several projects intended to shave energy use and improve efficiency.
Roos and a team of researchers studied nearly 5,000 fire-scarred trees in Arizona and New Mexico, in areas inhabited by the Apache, Navajo and Jemez tribes over the course of 400 years, between roughly 1500 and 1900.
The BLM Missoula Field Office published an environmental assessment proposing thousands of acres of logging and thinning in an area dubbed the “Clark Fork Face” north of Interstate 90 approximately between Clinton and Drummond.
Bureau of Land Management will update plan to guide solar energy development in six Western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
While enthusiasm is running high around the potential acquisition of Marshall Mountain and the array of recreational programs it could support, members of the City Council are eager to see the numbers.
Kristen Sohlberg writes, "The opposition to the renovation of HLL seems to believe that we locals are the only people who should be able to use this pristine spot and that ANY renovation will be detrimental to the environment."