High Country News June 21, 2010
Feature
Immersed in the Wild
Edwin Dobb's cold swims in San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound and other Western waters bring him into contact with whales and other aquatic wildlife, as well as hidden currents and storms.
Bloody Mystery Lingers in the Desert
The unsolved murder of rancher Robert Krentz adds to the already-high tension along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Current
Health studies gas up
A small western Colorado town will be the subject of a study looking at the health impacts of natural gas.
The oil spill's upshot
The tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could help the environmental movement, if greens act wisely.
Rapid runoff
Recent dust storms have caused Colorado's snowpack to melt even faster than usual.
Into the wild
Rue Mapp's group Outdoor Afro encourages black people to explore nature and learn about things like bird-watching.
Libby's lethal numbers
The toll of the asbestos disaster in Libby, Mont., keeps growing.
Fish face-off
A proposal to ban gillnets in Oregon has commercial fishermen up in arms.
Ranger danger?
HCN investigates whether violence against National Park Service employees is increasing.
Editor's Note
Eccentricity and wildness
Western eccentrics are found underwater as well as in the high country.
Dear Friends
Summertime slowdown
High Country News skips an issue; visitors; Evelyn Schlatter's book Aryan Cowboys tackles militia movement; correction and clarification.
So long, Paonia
Jonathan Thompson, High Country News's former editor-in-chief, is moving to Germany with his family.
Uncommon Westerners
An infestation of the imagination, in a bark beetle lab
Reagan McGuire uses the lessons he learned as a pool shark to tackle the problem of rampaging bark beetles.
Book Reviews
Compassionate listening, fierce conversation
Photographer Meredith Ogilby and writer Corinne Platt interview 49 Western "heavy-lifters" in their new book, Voices of the American West.
Life in a doomed dome
In Dreaming the Biosphere, Rebecca Reider looks into the story behind the failed Arizona experiment.
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