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Along with hundreds of other White River trails, Red Creek is endangered--or close to being saved, depending on how you look at it. The 2.3 million-acre White River National Forest is Colorado's biggest playground, encompassing everything from the popular resorts of Vail and Aspen to alpine meadows populated only by elk. This year 31 million people are expected to visit, up 10% from just four years ago, fed by Colorado's booming popularity. Every 15 years the U.S. Forest Service must create a new land-use plan for the region, and the draft released...
...service (an agency usually criticized as being a caddy for timber companies) of putting ferns before humans. The White River Conservation Project criticized the plan as too little too late and called for blocking off 300,000 additional acres. "Red Table is one of the finest undisturbed mixed forest stands in the Rocky Mountains, and making it a wilderness area would protect that," says the project's director, Richard Compton. And, he points out, the plan would still leave a yawning 1.5 million acres for snowmobile use. All told, the public fired off 14,000 impassioned responses to the proposal...
...police, India's most wanted bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is a cold-blooded thug. The career criminal is accused of committing at least 120 murders, slaughtering some 2,000 elephants for their tusks, and leading a violent gang that has smuggled rare sandalwood from forest reserves for 30 years. But to the desperately poor living in the fringes of southern India's forests, Veerappan is a near folk hero. In a region with few jobs, he employs them to fell and transport sandalwood trees, pays for people's weddings and, by avoiding capture for decades, has successfully thumbed his nose...
...swashbuckling Bollywood image doesn't hurt either: Veerappan favors camouflage gear, sports a long, twirled mustache and is rarely seen without his rifle. It was his audacious kidnapping of popular south Indian film star Raj Kumar last year that catapulted the 54-year-old forest bandit from local Robin Hood to the world stage. Veerappan's mysterious release of the celebrity after 108 days of headlines and hype?apparently with no demands met?only added to his aura and provided grist to rumors of secret government payoffs. In a gripping new book, Veerappan, The Untold Story (Penguin Books India...
...blood-splattered incident to the next. As a young boy in the 1950s, Veerappan quickly learned he could earn respect by carrying a gun?and using it. He started his illicit career by killing elephants, bribing forestry and police officials to get past checkpoints protecting the dwindling herds in forest reserves, and selling the ivory for lucrative sums to traders. Utilizing the same techniques and connections, he recruited villagers to illegally fell sandalwood trees, which he then smuggled to northern Indian factories that produce oil for perfumeries abroad. Veerappan has repeatedly reduced to abject helplessness the authorities of three different...