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Time To Waste After 24 years and $4 billion in studies, the U.S. Senate approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's first permanent nuclear-waste storage site. The controversial facility will hold 77,000 tons of waste from 103 reactors...
Although the U.S. military remains tight-lipped over any liability for the July 1 incident in which a number of Afghan villagers were killed at a wedding celebration in the remote mountain district of Deh Rawood during an American air attack on suspected Taliban positions nearby, Washington may be letting its money do the talking. "Verbally, at least, the Americans have admitted the attack was a mistake," says Afghan cabinet minister Mohammed Arif Noorzai, the man who headed the joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into the killings. And, he says, in a meeting earlier this week with Afghan officials in Kabul...
...down to three: besides me, Fairchild and his army buddy Rich Galli, who met each other in Italy, where they were mountain-warfare instructors. Galli was infantry and Fairchild artillery--as were Lewis and Clark, respectively. Soon we are skirting 10-ft. snowdrifts, now and again postholing into a soft patch up to our thighs. By midday we crest the ridgeline, where we can start to make out the vast wild expanse that stretches away on all sides. To our north are 1.8 million acres of the Clearwater National Forest, to the south are 1.3 million acres of the Selway...
Where I live, in the Yaak, a wet foggy jungle, I have been searching all this spring for the sighting or the tracks of one mother bear and her offspring, on a mountain that is scheduled to be logged hard in the name of "fuels reduction," to theoretically reduce fire danger. I belong to a local pro-roadless group called the Yaak Valley Forest Council, which would like to see the fuels reduced on this mountain but in a way that would leave all the living green trees still standing. Last year many people saw the tracks of the bear...
...grizzlies to the American wilderness, I'm looking for just one bear. The snow is so deep that I can't positively identify the tracks as belonging to a black bear or a grizzly. At one point the bear catches my scent and breaks into a gallop down the mountain. And--knowing it's being tracked--the bear hurries down out of the snow, and I quickly lose the trail. The next day, the sun returns, the snow melts, as do the tracks, vanishing, as if they never were...