High Country News July 23, 2007
Feature
Hydrogen Highway Revisited
Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save the planet through hydrogen power, but critics say the notion is just hot air
Editor's Note
Global charming
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s belief that he can save the planet through hydrogen power is much like one of his movie performances – entertaining, charismatic and ultimately unrealistic
Two Weeks in the West
Two weeks in the West
The West is on fire; Dick Cheney exposed; toning down RS-2477; and firefighting statistics
Uncommon Westerners
Throwing raptors into flight
Rob Domenech bands eagles, studies hawks and also works with at-risk kids
News
Fear in the Valley
Following a high-profile raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undocumented farmworkers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley live in fear
When the Joneses go solar
As solar power becomes more popular, planners wrestle with builders over aesthetics
Book Reviews
Home is where the compost is
Robert Michael Pyle takes us through a year in his small Northwestern community in Sky Time in Gray’s River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
A taste of ecological medicine
In Nature’s Restoration, naturalist Peter Friederici looks at the people and places involved in the restoration of natural landscapes
Essays
Natural diversity
Wayne Hare, a black park ranger, talks about the importance of diversity for the future of the West
The aroma of Tacoma
Karen Mockler likes the West’s grittier towns – the ones that aren’t remotely cool, the ones with a certain funk
Heard Around the West
Heard Around the West
Who stops for pedestrians?; rude coyotes in Phoenix; Starbucks in Saudi Arabia; America’s public-lands birthright – NOT; bear-(and human)-resistant Dumpsters in Vail
Letters
Every picture tells a story
We’ll send a photographer right out
Eat what you kill
The destruction of perfection
The ultimate predator
It’s the habitat, stupid
Real hunters support predators
We shall overcome
Maybe Murdoch will bid for HCN next
‘Prop up that bear’s head, Karl’
‘Psychotic mutant retards’ on the loose
Sportsmen unite
A new take on ‘shoot, shovel and shut up’
