A water crisis lurks beneath El Paso, Texas, and its sister across the border, Mexico's Ciudad Juarez. Ironically, the solution to their water woes may hold a silver lining for the overtaxed Rio Grande. Interior Secretary Gale Norton told the Washington Post that she won't try to overturn any of the West's new national monuments. Stealing power for 60 years. A new forest management plan in Oregon is supposed to improve habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl.
Northwestern conservationists think the plan is too risky.
Posey is among those who argue that the tribes need to get tough with developers. Now, it's at the center of one of Cody's first serious development battles. Renting a snowmobile runs against my grain, like listening to Rush Limbaugh or kissing the Pope's ring. But the playground adage, 'don't knock it 'til you've tried it' rang in my head. Protect the Columbia.