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World Scientists Are Aghast at Canada's Species Bill

More than 1,300 of the world’s top biologists sent a scathing letter to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday, criticizing the country’s proposed endangered species legislation. They are upset that the bill would protect no species habitat on provincial land, but only on federal land — and then only at the federal cabinet’s discretion. […]

Arsenic Study Supports Tougher Limits in H2O

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has found that the standard for arsenic levels in drinking water should be at least as tough as the one set by the Clinton administration and then suspended by the Bush administration. Former President Clinton ordered the level to be no higher than 10 parts per billion (ppb) by […]

Dan Kent, Red Rock Forests

Dan Kent is the founder of Red Rock Forests. His work with Mexican spotted owls in the forests and canyons of southern Utah led to a growing awareness of the importance of Utah’s “mountain island” ranges to the surrounding desert watersheds and wildlife. Wednesday, 12 Sep 2001 MOAB, Utah This month begins Red Rock Forests’ […]

Saving Private Xylem

California Gov. Gray Davis (D) is asking the state Board of Forestry to pass a rule tomorrow that would require private landowners to get state approval before cutting down ancient trees on their property. Landowners would have to go through a multiagency environmental review before receiving permission to log a single ancient tree. The proposal […]

Cash Croppers

Nearly two-thirds of the $27 billion in farm subsidies given out last year went to just 10 percent of American farm owners, including Fortune 500 companies, wealthy members of Congress, and other millionaires, according to a study of federal data by the Associated Press. Studying the same data, the Environmental Working Group says that fewer […]

No Safe Harbor

Even though water clarity in Boston Harbor has improved twofold and concentrations of contaminants have dropped 80 percent this past year, the area’s major beaches aren’t much cleaner than they were in the 1990s. Officials attribute the successes to a $4.1 billion, 16-year cleanup effort that ended in 2000. Sewage and stormwater discharges, however, have […]

Wayne Hoskisson, Red Rock Forests

Wayne Y. Hoskisson is executive director of Red Rock Forests. He is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young and lives among the red rocks of southeastern Utah. Monday, 10 Sep 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. This is an unusual Monday morning for me. Ordinarily, I would walk an eighth of a mile to my office in Moab, Utah, […]

Old Mcdonald Had a Dead Salmon

A highly contagious disease that can be fatal to Atlantic salmon but is harmless to humans has spread to Maine, threatening endangered wild salmon and taking a bite out of fish farmers’ wallets. So far this year, fish farmers in Maine have been forced to kill more than 700,000 salmon worth some $11 million in […]

Let the Ban Roll On

Democrats in the U.S. Congress and environmentalists pressed the Bush administration yesterday to uphold the policy approved by former President Clinton to ban road-building and logging on a third of the country’s national forests. They say that more than 2 million Americans have told the government they favor the ban, a record number of comments […]

The Promised Land Managers

In a victory for environmentalists, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the Jewish National Fund, well known around the world for its tree-planting efforts in Israel, must now submit its forestry plans for public review. The ruling came on a petition filed by the Israel Union for Environmental Defense. The enviro group charged that […]