Natural gas is a wonderful thing, but our need for it does
not outweigh our responsibility to the land
Items by Paul Larmer
Human beings can learn a lot from our wild animal cousins,
but we need to pay more attention to them — especially to the
ones we flatten on the highways
January may have brought rain and snow to parts of the
West, but the study of past climates warns us that we still have to
learn to live with drought
The writer welcomes the latest moisture but says we still
need to learn the lessons of drought
In this issue, High Country News ventures outside its
usual box to look at 10 serious issues facing the West in the next
four years
It would be a grave mistake for President Bush to assume
that his recent victory gives license for a winner-take-all power
grab in the West
Terry Tempest Williams on the First Amendment; HCN
Portland board meeting; remembering Judy Jacobsen
The brothers Stewart and Mo Udall are two of the
West’s conservation heroes, and their sons, Rep. Tom Udall of
New Mexico and Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, have very large shoes
to fill in their own work for the Western landscape
A rising number of Westerners are committed to local
solutions that benefit both the land and communities
Towns like Wamsutter, Wyo., may never be quaint and
charming, but they can lay claim to their own rough beauty once a
real community takes root
In this issue of High Country News, four essayists take a
thoughtful look at the Lewis and Clark expedition and its impacts
– past and present — on Indian America
High Country News interviews Bill Hedden of the Grand
Canyon Trust about northern Arizona’s Kane and Two Mile
ranches, which the Trust and the Conservation Fund have an
exclusive option to purchase
Collaborative conservation may help revive both endangered
prairie ecosystems and the struggling farm communities of the Great
Plains
This issue features three pages of letters from readers,
weighing in on High Country News’ editorial approach to the
Bush administration’s environmental policies
The same kind of "ballot-box planning" that’s been
used to control development in small towns like Paonia, Colo., is
being manipulated by Wal-Mart in its quest to build more
Supercenters in the West
The challenge of restoring one overgrazed, weed-choked
pasture is a good example of the kind of work that needs to be done
in the West, to the benefit of both workers and the
environment
Our theory that newcomers would, over time, change the
political landscape to one more progressive in outlook, needs
revision
The writer urges us to focus on saving the land, not the
rancher
Environmentalists and ranchers should quit arguing about
public-lands grazing and work together with the land trust movement
to save the land we all love
A visit to Arizona’s new Agua Fria National Monument
– one of those designated by Clinton at the end of his
presidency – points up the failure of the Bush administration
to protect and preserve the public lands
The writer tells President Bush that some public lands are
worth more as national monuments than energy producers
The increasing politicization of the courts is creating a
hazardous landscape for conservationists, who need to diligently
oppose anti-environmental judges
President Bush’s space initiative will most likely
come to nothing, but it reminds us that we need to get our own
planet in order before we explore the galaxy
The kind of democratic dialogue that creates viable
wilderness proposals is impossible in the current wilderness of
power politics
Los Alamos National Laboratory needs to be open with the
public about the messes it has made, in order to ensure that the
public health is protected
The West’s small towns have always been subject to
boom-and-bust economies, and even when the coal mines close and the
factories move overseas, new economic engines will likely take
their place
Montana’s Flathead Valley shows how
environmentalists can work together – even work with their
opponents – to get things done in a climate hostile to
conservation
Farewell, Radio HCN; and Farewell, radio staffers Adam
Burke, Krissy Clark and the recently arrived Maria Schell
Those who thought the West’s nuclear role would wind
down with the end of the Cold War are facing a brand-new nuclear
age, one that is being created behind closed government doors where
few questions are asked
Water development in the West has always been about
economic growth and enrichment, and current proposals for water
use, whether from the public or private sector, need to be judged
on their own merits
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