High Country News December 08, 2008
Feature
The missing puzzle piece
In southwestern Colorado’s Crow Canyon, archaeologists are working with Native Americans to solve the historical mysteries of the Four Corners area.
Digging deep
An innovative local program helps Hispanic heroin addicts recover by renewing their ties to the land.
Out in the cold
When Julene Bair sold the family farm, she severed her lifelong connections with a sense of place and her own childhood.
Editor's Note
Fruit of the land
High Country News writers look for querencia – the physical place that gives one strength – in prehistoric (and contemporary) Indian pueblos, in gardens tended by recovering addicts, and in a now-lost family farm.
Dear Friends
Congratulations, Theo
Paonia scientist Theo Colborn wins a prestigious international prize, the 2008 Goteborg Award, for her work on endocrine disruption.
Birds of a feather
Dave Schweppe and Tam Scott, friends for 30 years, hunt upland game birds every year in the shortgrass prairie of northeastern Montana.
Uncommon Westerners
For the birds
Scott Rashid rescues and rehabilitates owls, eagles and other birds at his house in Estes Park, Colo.
Book Reviews
Night: not just for astronomers
In the anthology Let There Be Night, editor Paul Bogard and 29 writers and scientists testify on behalf of the value of darkness.
Two men, two paths
David Guterson’s new novel, The Other, follows the diverging lives of two old friends, one who settles for a quiet family life and another who seeks out a hermit’s existence in the Olympic rainforest.
Essays
Methow Homecoming
A man contemplates his relationship with a landscape that he is always loving and leaving.
Letters
Kitsching the West
Wolves, ranchers and public lands
Awww ...
The carbon-go-round
Burn it, bit by bit
Two Weeks in the West
Going underground
Hardrock mining slows down, but carbon sequestration and algae biofuels pick up.
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