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  • Book Reviews

    Small town design

    A report, "Managing Change in Rural Communities," is reviewed.

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    $400,000 buys property - and a vote

    The new resort town of Mountain Village, Colo., employs questionable legal tactics to allow non-resident property owners to vote while seasonal workers cannot.

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    Ski workers look for a home

    If the Adam's Rib ski resort is built, western Colorado's already displaced workers will have to commute even farther to find a place to live.

  • News

    Jury convicts a grave robber

    Oregon resident Jack Lee Harelson is found guilty of looting an Indian burial cave in Nevada, and pothunter Earl Shumway is sentenced in Utah to six-and-one-half years.

  • News

    Facts take a beating on the range

    New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force issues a press release saying the Diamond Bar allotment is not overgrazed, and environmentalists and scientist critics cry "pseudoscience."

  • News

    Catron County wins in court, loses on the ground

    Catron County, N.M.'s land ordinances survive an environmental lawsuit, but fail to be enforced on the ground.

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    The thing about the West is that every jerk is figuring out how to rip up the landscape, and the laws in the West let him

    In his own words, an anonymous retired East Coast businessman explains his disillusionment with the West and his decision not to buy property there.

  • Feature

    Lack of enchantment: Santa Fe's boom goes flat

    Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale boom.

  • Book Reviews

    The Northwest's new economy

    Economist Tom Powers' report, "Economic Well-being and Environmental Protection in the Pacific Northwest," says the region is thriving despite dire predictions.

  • Book Reviews

    Do-it-yourself preservation

    Volunteers help protect the West's threatened archaeological sites from vandals and looters.

  • Book Reviews

    Revving up rural schools

    The Annenberg Rural Challenge seeks to reform rural schools.

  • Book Reviews

    Southwestern writers hit the airwaves

    A radio documentary "Writing the Southwest" features 13 Southwestern authors.

  • Book Reviews

    Green fellows

    Environmental journalists are invited to apply for a fellowship year at Harvard.

  • News

    Traffic flow 1, trees 0

    Residents of New Mexico's North Valley object to the felling of old cottonwoods to make way for a bridge over the Rio Grande designed to ease Albuquerque commuter traffic.

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    Trust in the Land

    In the effort to preserve Western open space, land trusts take the lead.

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