Feature

Harvesting Poison

In the little-seen world of immigrant farmworkers, pesticides are a constant threat — and for the workers, the only options are shutting up or getting out

Editor's Note

It’s time for some solidarity

It’s high time for the environmental movement to join with farmworker activists in their fight for fair treatment and protection from dangerous pesticides

Dear Friends

Dear Friends

New interns Pua Mench and Josh Garrett-Davis; Redlodge Clearinghouse; Visitors from afar

News

Who’s at the helm?

While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction

Follow-up

Sandpoint, Idaho, business owners oppose Cabinet Mountains copper mine; Wyo. Gov. Dave Freudenthal jumps on coalbed methane bandwagon; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells agencies to police themselves; and Columbia River dredging delayed again

Timber companies borrow a tool from environmentalists

In Idaho’s Panhandle region, the Potlatch Corp. is negotiating conservation easements on as much as 600,000 acres of forest, but not all conservationists are thrilled at the prospect

Reckless rancher cuts sweet deal in D.C.

The Bush administration cuts a deal with Wyoming rancher Harvey Frank Robbins Jr., and orders the Worland BLM office to back off on enforcing grazing regulations

Reweaving the river

Local ranchers and farmers in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley are working to restore the Alamosa River, site of the infamous Summitville mine cyanide spill

Book Reviews

City at the end of its rope

In Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World, V. B. Price looks at the promise and the perils of a desert city that is still in search of an identity

Calendar

Water law for dummies

The Citizen’s Guide to Colorado Water Law by the nonprofit Colorado Foundation for Water Education gives a clear and simple overview of water in the state

Living in two worlds

In her biography, Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds, Diana Meyers Bahr shares the life story of a remarkable American Indian woman

Essays

Hell’s fires burn in the Northern Rockies

A Montana pilot flies a fire spotter over the western part of the state in one of the worst fire seasons she’s ever known

Extinction – by the clock

Montana’s two varieties of sturgeon, the white and the pallid, have just been given an expiration date, and human beings should be paying more attention to this extinction

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West

Trouble at Burning Man; take your prostate to the County Fair; spotted knapweed kills its rivals; what happens to "liberated" mink; what to do when a bear attacks you; exploding pigs; "scratch ‘n’ sniff" for city folks

Letters

Good gear or good luck

Keep fire wild

Enough partisan divisiveness

Too little land, too many people

Related Stories

What child labor laws?

The effects of pesticides on farmworker children are often overlooked, because children are not supposed to work in the fields in the first place

Healthy workers, healthy label

The Bailey family’s efforts to take care of its orchard workers in The Dalles, Ore., have earned it certification from The Food Alliance

Connections to your kitchen

Pesticides that endanger farmworkers are used to grow common foods like apples, potatoes and asparagus