High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. “W” in 2004: Taking stock of wilderness at 40 http://www.hcn.org/issues/281/14976 As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, it’s time we got back to a realistic attitude about proposed wilderness, saving actual places, no matter how small they are, instead of holding out for mega-proposals No publisher Matt Jenkins Boulder-White Cloud wilderness wilderness Gale White River proposed wilderness proposed wilderness Ojito Wilderness Legislation wilderness areas Wilderness Alliance Bob Marshall Wilderness Wild Sky wilderness Wilderness Act Southern Utah John Muir Wilderness SUWA 2011-05-11T15:42:05Z News Article “They want the workers to be invisible” http://www.hcn.org/issues/241/13622 Former Leadville miner Bob Elder decries the exploitation of service workers who have to commute from Leadville to jobs in the resort counties. Jim Zoller, a former miner who now works as Leadville’s police chief, thinks that a lot of his town’s problems No publisher Hal Clifford Socio-Economics 2010-02-05T08:41:06Z News Article ‘Tributary issue' could force a seven-stateshowdown http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15789 Nevada is fighting with the four Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico over its right to use water from the Colorado River’s tributaries, in particular the Virgin and the Muddy rivers No publisher Matt Jenkins Dams And Water Supply Projects Patricia Mulroy Southern Nevada Water Authority water supply projects Colorado River Compact Colorado River Basin Jim Lochhead tributaries BLM Virgin River Muddy River Eric Kuhn Colorado River Water Conservation District Scott Balcomb Gale No 2012-03-05T23:19:08Z News Article ‘Restoration Cowboy’ goes against the flow http://www.hcn.org/issues/262/14362 Dave Rosgen has become a popular and influential guru in the field of river restoration and management, but some say his teaching oversimplifies a complex subject No publisher Joshua Zaffos Rivers Dave Rosgen river management river restoration fluvial geomorphology Wildland Hydrology Weminuche River Scott Gillilan David Montgomery 2010-02-05T09:55:13Z News Article ‘Psychotic mutant retards’ on the loose http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17126 No publisher Will Nobauer 2008-07-16T23:18:04Z Letter to the Editor ‘Prop up that bear’s head, Karl’ http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17125 No publisher Thomas R. Thompson 2008-07-16T23:18:04Z Letter to the Editor ‘New Homestead Act’ would boost dwindling towns http://www.hcn.org/issues/254/14094 The "New Homestead Act" now before Congress seeks to entice the young and skilled back into the Great Plains’ dying towns -- struggling communities like Eads, Colo No publisher Sierra Standish 2010-02-05T10:12:49Z News Article ‘Men standing in the shadows began to weep’ http://www.hcn.org/issues/357/17307 Writers John N. Maclean and Mark Matthews look closely at two famous – and deadly – Western wildfires in their new books, The Thirtymile Fire and A Great Day to Fight Fire. No publisher Ray Ring A John N. Maclean Norman Maclean firefighters fires Young Men and Fire forest Mark Matthews The Thirtymile Fire Great Day to Fight Fire nonfiction 2010-07-28T20:48:02Z News Article ‘Jeopardy’ opinions go the way of the dodo http://www.hcn.org/issues/253/14063 'Jeopardy' opinions, only issued when a project could drive a species into extinction, heighten conflict between conservationists and industry, and also between the Fish and Wildlife service and other agencies. No publisher Laura Paskus 2010-02-05T10:12:46Z News Article ‘Death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life’ http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15958 Writer and activist Michael Frome looks back on more than 80 years of a life filled concern for the environment and social justice No publisher Michael Frome Human Beings And Nature Michael Frome aging teachers activists memoirs autobiographies environmental movement growing older death muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Gaylord Nelson conservation movement Paul Brooks Rachel Carson Bernard DeVoto Richard Neuberger Wallace 2010-02-05T08:56:05Z News Article Zoologist says listing process is endangered http://www.hcn.org/issues/123/3921 Zoologist Ronald Nowak resigns from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in protest over the agency's failure to do its job listing and protecting threatened species such as the Canada lynx. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Threatened and Endangered Species 2010-02-05T09:52:26Z News Article Zookeeper helps a battered range http://www.hcn.org/issues/56/1753 Self-taught grazing activist Michael Seidman wins a victory when a federal judge rules that the Forest Service's analysis of a grazing allotment on Arizona's Tonto National Forest was inadequate. No publisher Jenny Emery 2010-02-05T10:03:19Z News Article Zoning code may squeeze Aspen ranchers http://www.hcn.org/issues/222/11086 The few remaining ranchers in Pitkin County, Colo., feel that a rezoning plan intended to concentrate Aspen's growth will end up harming them. No publisher Tim Fitzgerald Land Use And Planning 2010-02-05T08:52:18Z News Article Zombies and zombees http://www.hcn.org/blogs/heard/zombies-and-zombees People are still feeding bears, too No publisher Betsy Marston 2012-11-15T19:22:25Z Blog Post Zion's geriatric cottonwoods http://www.hcn.org/issues/225/11172 Cottonwood trees in Utah's Zion National Park may vanish in the next few decades, according to a study by the park and the Grand Canyon Trust that recommends removal of flood-protection stone levees as a way to save the trees. No publisher Krissy Clark National Park Service 2010-02-05T08:52:57Z News Article