High Country News - Writers on the Range
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Indian trust is anything but
Blackfeet tribal member and banker Elouise Cobell writes about her legal battle to make the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Interior Department accountable for millions of dollars missing from Indian trust funds.
by Elouise Cobell, Feb 04, 2002 -
The American West is an island besieged
An encounter with an almost-extinct Hawaiian bird leads the writer to wonder whether the West's own wildlife and cultures can survive, or whether the region is fated to become a museum instead of a living landscape.
by Paul Larmer, Jan 21, 2002 -
Libby tested environmentalists, who came up short
The writer says environmentalists cared so much about wildlife and public lands that they missed a deadly mess in Libby, Montana
by Ray Ring, Mar 02, 2005 -
Giving back the bison
Mark Matthews says tribal management of a federal bison refuge makes sense
by Mark Matthews, Jun 15, 2003 -
Like Butte, Montana, an old dog hangs on
A mysterious, mostly wild dog, fed by local miners, has somehow survived for 16 years in the desolate moonscape of a Superfund site -- the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont.
by Matt Vincent, Dec 09, 2002 -
Gardening old-style with my great-uncle Alfred in Seattle
The other day my great-uncle Alfred gave me a handful of the year's green beans, dried and ready for planting next summer. "Give them something high up to grow on," he told me. "They'll grow 7 feet tall."
by Dustin Solberg, Nov 12, 2002 -
Walking in Portland can be dangerous to your health
Last week another vehicle almost nailed me flat as a coffin. I was alone in a crosswalk in the center of Oregon's most worldly city, Portland. I had been walking uphill and had made it six blocks west of the Willamette River.
by Sharon Wood Wortman, Nov 05, 2002 -
Can I lose 20 pounds before my 50th high school reunion?
Jeannie Pomeroy faces the prospect of an upcoming high school reunion with the wry awareness that neither she nor her classmates are the people they were 50 years ago.
by Jeannie Pomeroy, Apr 14, 2008 -
Here’s a new way to think about Black History
As an African-American, Wayne Hare appreciates Black History Month, but looks forward to a time when the U.S. can celebrate its identity as a nation of non-hyphenated Americans.
by Wayne Hare, Feb 04, 2008 -
It’s the West’s turn to call the shots
The writer sees political leadership emerging from the West, a region disdained by the Eastern establishment.
by Ed Marston, Dec 27, 2004 -
The ugly economy of killing wildlife
Lisa Upson and Wendy Keefover-Ring believe that Wildlife Services’ predator control program is ugly, ineffective, inhumane and indiscriminate.
by Lisa Upson and Wendy Keefover-Ring, May 05, 2008 -
The decline of logging is now killing
Now that logging no longer provides enough money to support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves filled and accessible.
by Pepper Trail, Apr 09, 2007 -
Blowing the whistle on Yucca Mountain in Nevada
The writer tells why he quit a scientific panel that studied Yucca Mountain's suitability for storing nuclear waste
by Paul P. Craig, May 03, 2004 -
The next wars may be fought over water
Tim Holt warns that European companies are moving to privatize our water supplies
by Tim Holt, Jan 12, 2004 -
An ancient place to wonder about our survival
Andy Gulliford delights in the vast Canyon of the Ancients National Monument-- a living museum subject to increased gas drilling.
by Andy Gulliford, Jul 14, 2008 -
Searching for the true causes of the West’s fire problems
Pepper Trail, a wildlife biologist in Oregon, says that this is not the time to log our way out of wildfire threats in the West.
by Pepper Trail, Aug 11, 2003 -
What does a $155 million house reveal about us?
Alan Kesselheim has been thinking about a spec house that will be bigger than his town’s library.
by Alan Kesselheim, Feb 12, 2007 -
The case for filet of filly
Americans may be sentimental about their horses, but slaughtering unwanted animals with poison is more cruel and a lot less sensible than using them for horsemeat.
by Sharon O’Toole, Apr 30, 2007 -
Wealthy landowners and locals wade into the ditch
Jack Wright thinks Montanans are over-reacting to stream-access issues; after all, from the point of view of a fish, it’s a good thing when a rich man restores a stream, even if he locks out trespassers.
by Jack Wright, Apr 16, 2007 -
Montana puts limits on national Trout Unlimited
When national Trout Unlimited tried to get its Montana branch to stay out of state stream-access issues, the Montanans rebelled dramatically, much to Pat Munday’s delight.
by Pat Munday, Apr 16, 2007
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