Articles by Grist staff

Why hasn't the National Marine Fisheries Service called for Snake River dams?

Passions run high in the Pacific Northwest over whether to remove four large federal dams on the lower Snake River to recover the river’s imperiled wild salmon and steelhead (a.k.a. sea-run rainbow trout). The Snake once produced more salmon and steelhead than any other river in the vast Columbia River basin — over 2 million […]

The Blues and the Graze

The U.S. government is calling for more timber harvesting and less grazing on 64 million acres in the eastern part of the Northwest as part of the largest federal land-use plan ever proposed. The plan, released yesterday by the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project, is a joint effort by the U.S. Forest Service and […]

Yuck Is Mountin'

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson called yesterday for an investigation into allegations that federal contractors compromised a scientific study to determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a safe place to store all the country’s high-level nuclear waste. The Las Vegas Sun last month obtained a 60-page draft report about the site and found a […]

Blubber Clubbers

Canadian officials are denying they have decided to curb the annual seal hunt off of Newfoundland, by far the largest cull of marine mammals in the world. Based on an internal memo that it obtained, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said the country’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans had decided to pare back the […]