Alan Kesselheim has been thinking about a spec house that
will be bigger than his town’s library.
Items by Alan Kesselheim
The writer is grateful to live in a community where
neighborliness is a given
The writer gets held up by ravens in two national
parks
The writer gets motivated by a heating bill to camp out at
home
The writer sees his over-developed town through a
friend’s eyes
The writer spends a weekend in jail with violent offenders
who want to change
The writer defines freedom as canoeing with kids down a
fast-flowing Colorado river in spring
The writer wonders why so many people obsess about gay
people
The writer says California points the way toward
responsible shopping
A visit to Glass Beach in California leads to
dumpster-diving on a grand scale, and offers a preview of future
geologic strata
Alan Kesselheim visits Glass Beach in California, where
garbage is being transmuted into collectibles.
The writer says pedestrians have a right to feel
road-rage, too
The writer says snowmobilers ruin it for cross-country
skiers like him in the backcountry
Alan Kesselheim finds that some issues are uncomfortably
gray
Watching his children discover nature on the
family’s land in central Montana, the writer remembers his
own childhood special places on a Connecticut beach
Alan Kesselheim learns again to relish the
unpredictability of both the outdoors and childhood.
Alan Kesselheim takes a road trip across the wide
West
A writer retraces the journey of Lewis and Clark, but
finds that Montana’s growth and development have destroyed
the wild West the explorers saw
It’s about time the anti-environmentalists turned
down the rhetoric and took a break from their rude and silly
diatribes.
Grand Canyon's backcountry and river planning effort ends
abruptly when Park Superintendent Robert Arnberger decides the
process, which includes outfitters, private boaters and wilderness
advocates, is "too contentious."
The 670 miles of the Yellowstone River cross a varied
landscape and face an equal variety of problems along the
way.
Landowner opposition helped shoot down President Clinton's
Heritage Rivers Initiative, which Yellowstone River activists
believe could have helped the river greatly.
The unregulated development of private property along the
banks of the Yellowstone River is the greatest threat to the
river.
Andrew Dana, who went to the Army Corps of Engineers for a
permit to stabilize the Yellowstone River's banks on his land,
describes the permitting process as "a bad dream."
The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed river in the
West, but Montana's rapid growth is affecting it, as property
owners afraid of floods lay huge amounts of riprap along its
banks.
Montana legislators are trying to find ways to get around
the recently passed voter initiative 137, which halts new or
expanded cyanide leach gold mines.
So many people want to take a river trip through the Grand
Canyon that limits set by the Park Service - which many say favor
commercial outfitters over private boaters - create an
administrative nightmare for the agency.
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