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Spinner of yarns, maker of floats
Black George Simmons – an 84-year-old park volunteer with a flair for colorful stories – dishes out root beer floats to anyone who visits his tiny log cabin in Grand Teton National Park.
by Ray Sikorski, Oct 01, 2007 -
My, what a small family tree you have
In the Northern Rockies, gray wolves may be in danger of inbreeding.
by Erin Halcomb, Oct 01, 2007 -
A downside to downing dams?
Removing dams is more a complex experiment than a panacea, as Arizona’s Fossil Creek shows.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 01, 2007 -
Underground movement
In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to fight a proposal for uranium mining.
by Jodi Peterson, Oct 01, 2007 -
Two weeks in the West
Wilderness bills are coming back to life, especially one that would protect Arizona’s Tumacacori Highlands; a lot of things besides windmills are killing birds.
by Jonathan Thompson, Oct 01, 2007 -
Loosening the grazing knot
A showdown in Idaho pits bighorn sheep lovers against longtime sheep ranchers, but if people are willing to work together, this grazing knot can be untied.
by Paul Larmer, Oct 01, 2007 -
Sheep v. Sheep
Bighorn sheep and longtime sheep ranchers face off in Hells Canyon, where a legal battle over public-lands grazing could cause ripples across the West.
by Nathaniel Hoffman, Oct 01, 2007 -
Heard Around the West
Disguising cellphone towers as palm trees; winery etiquette; driving drunk and outspoken in New Mexico; Idiots with guns; fat fish; stupid attorney tricks
by Betsy Marston, Aug 20, 2007 -
Sculpting a reason to love the wind
Gary Bates creates mammoth metal sculptures out of discarded junk and sets them outside to turn and spin in the wind
by Ray Sikorski, Aug 20, 2007 -
Living precariously with wolves and cattle
Bryce Andrews decides he must kill a wolf to maintain a tenuous balance in Montana
by Bryce Andrews, Aug 20, 2007 -
The Weed-wackers
Botanist Sue Rutman has had surprising success just yanking up buffelgrass, but herbicides remain the first line of defense
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 20, 2007 -
Old West meets Old World in Big Horn
In Big Horn, Wyo., in the shadow of the Big Horn Mountains, Westerners have been playing polo for more than a century
by Peggy O’Neill, Aug 20, 2007 -
Testing the waters
New technologies may soon be able to tap the power in Western waves and tides to generate electricity, but critics are already worried about the impacts
by Kate Galbraith, Aug 20, 2007 -
Scientists and the city
Scientists working in the relatively new field of urban ecology study cities like Phoenix, seeking to gain knowledge that will help all cities as the West gets warmer
by Petra Spiess, Aug 20, 2007 -
The Sultans of Spuds
Western farmers band together to form the “OPEC of Potatoes” – a farmers’ cooperative called the United Potato Growers of America
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 20, 2007 -
Two weeks in the West
Coal-fired power plants don’t get no respect; nuclear is nudging its way in; resort real estate is hot as plutonium
by Jonathan Thompson, Aug 20, 2007 -
Fire: Friend and foe
Recent Western fires have cleared the stage for the rampant growth of highly flammable exotic plants such as cheatgrass and the buffelgrass now invading the Sonoran Desert
by Paul Larmer, Aug 20, 2007 -
Bonfire of the Superweeds
In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, good intentions are responsible for the introduction of exotic buffelgrass – but all the good intentions in the world may not be enough to save the desert now that this invasive and fire-prone plant is spreading
by Michelle Nijhuis, Aug 20, 2007 -
Heard around the West
Stonefridge has fallen; passports for Hutterites; 8-year-old terrorists?; railroad safety, sort of; stinky orchids; bare bikers busted in Seattle
by Betsy Marston, Aug 06, 2007 -
The owl and I
Melissa Hart’s relationship with an owl transforms her life
by Melissa Hart, Aug 06, 2007
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