More than 1,500 residents of Arizona's Salt River Reservation have signed petitions urging the tribe to share its gambling profits with tribal members. For many, the checks would be like winning the lottery. More than half of the Navajo Reservation's 56,372 homes lack plumbing and a large percentage still heat with wood. An array of cultural, financial and bureaucratic barriers mean most housing will never be more than rude shelter. Typically the conflicts involve threats to agriculture and forestry.
Critics question leaving trees for salmon.
Loggers and farmers say that will rival spotted owl restrictions for crippling the timber industry. Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, saying rules the agency adopted to protect grizzly bears in the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirk recovery areas are too weak. Federal agents will probably kill on wolf from a pack that killed a calf on a Clayton, Idaho-area ranch, then returned a second night to chase horses. Illegal poison used to kill Idaho wolves. Wolf advocates are blaming anti-wolf groups for encouraging the killings.