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“I go out there and I see very few osprey anymore,” McEneaney said. “I used to see 20 or 30 in a day, and now I’m lucky to see a couple.”

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Pinchot had studied forestry in France, where a peasant couldn’t make a campfire without being subject to penalties. In England, he had seen how the lords of privilege had their way over the outdoors. In the United States, he and T.R. envisioned the ultimate expression of Progressive-era values: a place where a tired factory hand could be renewed — lord for a day.

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The Citadel fire, reported Monday afternoon, is burning in steep, rough terrain about 25 miles southwest of Cody. It’s burning mostly in the Houlihan Creek drainage, a tributary of the South Fork of the Shoshone River drainage.

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MISSOULA (AP) — The Forest Service has cited an Idaho man for chopping down nearly 70 trees to build a cabin in the Lolo National Forest, and agency officials say it’s not uncommon for people to disrupt public lands in the area.

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The fire started Sunday near the south end of Lake Tahoe. By Tuesday evening, it had consumed more than 3,000 acres — about 4.69 square miles — and was about 44 percent contained, fire officials said.

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First Cheney looked for a way around the law, aides said. Next he set in motion a process to challenge the science protecting the fish, according to a former Oregon congressman who lobbied for the farmers.

Because of Cheney’s intervention, the government reversed itself and let the water flow in time to save the 2002 growing season, declaring that there was no threat to the fish. What followed was the largest fish kill the West had ever seen, with tens of thousands of salmon rotting on the banks of the Klamath River.