Articles by Grist staff

I Dunno, Alaska

Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) said on Friday his state would sue to try to prevent President Clinton’s road-building ban from applying to the Tongass and Chugach national forests. Knowles contends that the Alaskan forests should be exempted from the ban because management plans recently approved for the forests after an exhaustive fight between the […]

A Wild Horn Section

The Cameroon government, World Wildlife Fund, and World Conservation Union (IUCN) are planning a rescue mission to save the last 10 Western black rhinos in Africa. Western black rhinos are a subspecies of the African black rhino, one of the last four rhino species on the continent; three other rhino species have already gone extinct. […]

Norton's No Honeymooner

A list of the Interior Department advisory group assembled by President-elect Bush reads like a who’s who of representatives from the logging, mining, and oil drilling industries. Which isn’t surprising, given the background of Bush’s nominee to head the department, Gale Norton. Norton in 1998 founded what is now called the Council of Republicans for […]

Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar

Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Monday, 8 Jan 2001 STELLENBOSCH, South Africa Timm, the leader of the project I am working on, buzzes up to my apartment at 6:30 this morning. I come down with all my stuff for the week, which is not all […]