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    The Apache activist

    San Carlos Apache activist Ola Cassadore Davis talks about Mount Graham's sacredness and the coalition she founded to fight for it.

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    The administrator

    University of Arizona vice president for research and graduate studies Michael Cusanovich defends the university's Mount Graham project.

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    The astronomer

    Astronomer Peter Strittmatter defends observatories as "benign places."

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    Making a mountain into a starbase: The long, bitter battle over Mount Graham

    The University of Arizona's determination to build a world-class observatory on Mount Graham creates a storm of controversy involving an endangered red squirrel and an Indian tribe's desire to protect the mountain as a sacred place.

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    Lettie Hellman

    Delta County resident Lettie Hellman is a proponent of prisons for economic growth and other reasons.

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    A small mountain town shows prisons can be good neighbors

    The prisons in Colorado's Fremont County have brought more benefits than problems, many claim.

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    Crime is big business, on both sides of the law

    Prisons are a major growth industry in the rural West.

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    Poor, rural places are magnets for prisons

    Most new prisons are being built in economically troubled rural areas.

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    Colorado's prison slayer: One man's quest to unshackle a rural economy

    Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an economy.

  • Book Reviews

    Deconstructing the rural West

    An article by Patrick Jobes in "Western Planner" offers a profoundly pessimistic view of the West's growing amenity towns.

  • News

    A Montana county unearths a major welfare queen:itself

    Republican County Commissioner Adam Dahlman discovers that for every dollar Teton County taxpayers pay, $2.50 comes back from the federal government.

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    How an ex-clown brought order to a boom town

    Former Summit County Commissioner Gene Moser worked to create a state-of-the-art development code for a rapidly growing area.

  • Uncommon Westerners

    A 77-year-old cow watcher from Arizona

    HCN reader Pauline Sandholdt of Salome, Arizona, is featured in a profile.

  • News

    Forest forestalls squatters

    Jackson, Wyo.'s housing shortage will be worse than usual as Forest Service officials limit camping to five days on forest land in Jackson district.

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    Booming county looks for trust

    Idaho communities learn about land trusts as a possible solution to rapid growth.

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