But spring is hitting hard, and everyone in the neighborhood wants to come over and chat about fishing, about time served in Korea, about the dogs that keep getting into the garbage in the alley, about backhoe rodeos or the upheaval among the members of the local Christian church. Maybe we ll get the job finished this summer. In the final installment of our series on the politics of the Interior West, HCN Publisher Ed Marston declares that the struggle over the public lands is winding down. Environmentalists and their allies in the federal agencies have largely won. Plans for a nuclear incinerator in Idaho go up in smoke.
Photos show natural and unnatural selection in progress.
The most recent edition of Radio High Country News has the latest on the debate over busting through four dams on the Snake River to save endangered salmon. You ll get a report on the federal hearings in Boise, Idaho, plus an analysis of how the breaching debate is pushing elected officials to respond. You can find out on the Environmental Defense Fund s Scorecard page. Just bang in your zip code, and you may not look at that blue sky the same again. All material High Country News.