Topics in the News
Topics from Spring 2005 include:
- Wolf management in the Rocky Mountains
- Air quality in Yellowstone National Park
- Management of riverbank erosion
- Housing development in river floodplains
- The Jumping Mouse as an endangered species
- Fish dieoff on the Tongue River, Wyoming
- Collapse of the perch fishery in a Montana reservoir
- Coalbed methane drilling in Wyoming
- Volcanoes as producers of greenhouse gases
These are some of the topics that have been raised in the daily news during past semesters and that we've discussed in class. As the list grows, note the breadth of the issues we've experienced in the short time the class is in session.
- Bison population problems in Yellowstone
- Brucellosis in wild animals and risk to livestock
- Extreme weather conditions (Blizzards, floods, mudslides)
- Oil spill off the coast of Japan
- Gasoline spill in the Mississippi River
- Western bees and the impact of a mite epidemic
- Free bicycles as urban transport
- Molasses spill into the Big Horn River
- Public access to Rattlesnake Mountain public lands
- Water rights and instream flows on the Clark's Fork River
- Wolves in the Yellowstone ecosystem
- Oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Refuge
- Timber leases, public lands, and sawmills
- Sale of State lands
- Slash and Burn agriculture
- Collection of medicinal plants in Nepal
- Solar energy collection in Indonesia
- Problems associated with transgenic plants
- Problems with release of captive animals
- New World gold mine land swap
- Water quality problems and costs to fix in the US
- New Elk feeding stations in Wyoming
- Flooding
- Control of Elk on private property
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