http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/billboard-corporations-and-other-big-industries-make-their-own-rules Burning down billboards isn't a good idea, but can a citizen fight the corporate power behind the big signs? No publisher Ray Ring monkey-wrenching citizen activism roadside beautification corporate power destroying billboards billboard corporations sabotage Billboards Supreme Court banning billboards Citizens United decision Tucson City Council ecotage The Monkey Wrench Gang corporate campaign spending burning down billboards Ed Abbey Tucson Speedway Boulevard direct democracy Earth First! 2012-01-18T22:04:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-prodigal-son-is-honored-by-his-hometown Controversial writer Dalton Trumbo returns to his hometown of Grand Junction, Colo. -- in a bronze bathtub. No publisher Andrew Gulliford Johnny Got His Gun sculpture Lonely Are the Brave Western writers public art McCarthyism 1950s blacklist Dalton Trumbo Ed Abbey 2011-03-08T22:42:57Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.16/the-terrain-of-this-ambition A writer wrestles with the huge shadows cast by the men and women of “Literary Utah.” No publisher Christopher Cokinos artistic ambition Christopher Cokinos Ed Abbey Literary Utah Wallace Stegner Western writers rivalry William Least-Heat Moon 2010-09-09T16:01:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/slobs-at-lake-powell-foment-a-revolt Rather than rail against Lake Powell's mere existence, conservationists should try to restore and protect the landscape that is still there. No publisher Andrew Gulliford Earthfirst! houseboats Ed Abbey Glen Canyon Dam motorized recreation canoes trash cleanup Lake Powell rafting 2010-08-19T14:48:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/monkey-wrenchers-keep-on-keeping-on Ed Abbey's pugnacious spirit lives on in eco-activists like Tim DeChristopher, who quietly sabotaged a Utah BLM energy-lease auction. No publisher Peter Shelton environmental activists civil disobedience Dave Foreman Katie Lee BLM lease auctions monkey wrenching Tim DeChristopher Ed Abbey 2010-07-09T15:14:51Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15890 Bill McKibben’s new book, Wandering Home, is a hopeful account of a leisurely hike across northeastern America, as relevant to the West as it is to the East No publisher George Sibley Recreation Camping And Hiking Human Beings And Nature Bill McKibben The End of Nature global warming hiking camping backcountry travel personal history memoirs nature Wendell Berry Ed Abbey wilderness wild landscapes natural history environmental movement conservation 2010-02-05T08:31:32Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15889 Two recent guidebooks – Mike Coltrin’s Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide and The Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains by Robert Julyan and Mary Stuever – are excellent guides to the trails and histories of the mountains outside Albuquerque No publisher Laura Paskus Human Beings And Nature Sandia Mountains Mike Coltrin Robert Julyan Mary Stueber field guides natural history plants wildlife birds hiking trails Albuquerque New Mexico wildflowers Crest Trail Movie Trail Ed Abbey Kirk Douglas Lonely Are The Brave archaeology 2010-02-05T08:31:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15380 Old Westerners and New Westerners are equally hypocritical when it comes to caricaturing each other and not looking at themselves No publisher Jim Stiles Communities in Transition Old West New West Ed Abbey hypocrisy grazing small towns Western culture rural lifestyle cowboys off-road vehicles mountain bikes wilderness hunting Dick Cheney cultural divide conflict recreation SUVs Bush administration land ethics 2010-02-05T09:24:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14509 In Writing the Southwest, editors David King Dunaway and Sara Spurgeon collect interviews with 14 Southwestern writers, and provide a CD of their voices as well No publisher Laura Paskus Human Beings And Nature Southwestern writers David King Dunaway Sara Spurgeon Writing the Southwest interviews Ed Abbey Luci Tapahonso Denise Chavez Tony Hillerman Terry McMillan Simon Ortiz Rudolfo Anaya 2010-02-05T09:55:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/266/14493 Many thanks for the inspirational Ed Abbey quote; Sedona board meeting and potluck coming up; How the West works; response to Robyn Morrison’s rock-climbing story; and corrections No publisher Greg Hanscom High Country News Dear Friends Ed Abbey Sedona Arizona Robyn Morrison Climbing magazine Rock & Ice Jeff Achey 2010-02-05T09:55:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/16394 In his memoir, Walking It Off, wilderness activist Doug Peacock tries to make sense of a life spent dealing with war, fighting for wilderness, and coping with cantankerous friends like the late Ed Abbey No publisher Laura Paskus Wilderness Human Beings and Nature Doug Peacock Walking It Off memoirs autobiography first-person accounts personal history Vietnam veterans wilderness grizzly bears Ed Abbey Hayduke Monkey Wrench Gang war experiences life stories memory 2011-11-12T23:42:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/323/16322 Curmudgeons like Jim Stiles – owner/editor of Moab’s Canyon Country Zephyr – have a lot to teach us about why it is so important for us to cling to the West that we love No publisher Paul Larmer Media Communities in Transition Jim Stiles Canyon Country Zephyr Moab Utah nostalgia aging New West Old West media small town newspapers Arches National Park Ed Abbey Paonia Colorado editors writers environmentalists wilderness preservation conservation groups develop 2011-12-05T23:55:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/344/16955 In Brave New West: Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed, Jim Stiles rips into the amenity-oriented tourist economy that has transformed his once-beloved Moab, but he offers little in the way of useful alternatives. No publisher Brian Kevin wilderness Moab Communities in transition growth Country Zephyr sprawl Utah tourists development mountain bikes Jim Stiles demographics small towns degradation New West newspaper publishers land use and planning changing communities population rural West Canyon Brave New West Ed Abbey 2010-08-06T22:43:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16559 In Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, David Petersen assembles some of the correspondence of Western writer Edward Abbey into an eminently readable but ultimately unenlightening collection. No publisher Brian Kevin Human beings and nature correspondence life letters letters to the editor journal entries anthologies book reviews writers Postcards from Ed biography authors Confessions of a Barbarian Ed Abbey memoir David Peterson Western 2010-10-26T22:38:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15599 Utah’s drought gives proof that Glen Canyon’s Cathedral in the Desert is still in liquid storage underneath Lake Powell No publisher Jim Stiles Dams And Water Supply Projects Cathedral in the Desert Lake Powell Phil Hyde Rich Ingebretsen Ed Abbey canyons reservoirs drought motorboats David Brower 2011-03-31T22:53:55Z News Article