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  • Big Sky, big mess in Montana

    A Montana ski resort originally created by newsman Chet Huntley and intended to be a model of free-market, unconstrained development, is today a morass of lawsuits, environmental degradation and inefficiency.

    by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 1997

  • Big Sky above, private land below

    Former Big Sky ski patrolman J.C. Knaub in his own words describes the difficulties faced in trying to bring neighborhood parks and trails to Big Sky.

    by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 1997

  • How Huntley sold Big Sky to Montana

    Big Sky founding father and famous TV newsman Chet Huntley started the resort but did not live to see what he created.

    by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 1997

  • Touring the future on Insta-Teller Road

    A computerized key-pad locked road in Big Sky epitomizes a ski resort where the "haves" are carefully kept from the trespassing "have nots."

    by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 1997

  • Armies of skiers are coming to Yellowstone

    Seven ski resorts ring Yellowstone National Park and add to the pressure on a fragile ecosystem.

    by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 1997

  • Chet Huntley's legacy includes suppression of a free press

    The preferential treatment Big Sky gives the pro-resort Lone Peak Lookout over the independent Big Sky Bugle is an ironic legacy for a hard-hitting journalist like Chet Huntley to leave.

    by Ray Ring, Mar 31, 1997

  • Ski area arms race dirties the water

    Environmentalists would like to overturn the Forest Service's decision to let Colorado's Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort start snowmaking.

    by Allen Best, Jan 29, 2001

  • Parks test skiers' green resolve

    In Wyoming, backcountry skiers are upset to find that the Park Service's decision to ban snowmobiles from Yellowstone and Grand Teton may also ban skiing in some areas, to protect bighorn sheep.

    by Rachel Odell, Mar 26, 2001

  • A high country whodunit

    Daniel Glick's "Powder Burn: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountain" tells the story of the Vail Ski Area and the fire that destroyed its mountaintop restaurant, in an entertaining way, but ultimately lacks depth and insight.

    by Allen Best, Jun 04, 2001

  • Ski resorts pump up ecoterrorism defenses

    In the wake of the arson at Vail two years ago, Western ski resorts have hired security staff to keep an eye out for ecoterrorism.

    by Hal Clifford, Oct 08, 2001
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