HCN says goodbye to Greg Hanscom and
welcomes new editor John Mecklin; notes from readers
Items by Jodi Peterson
High Country News needs your support;
visitors; corrections
New fall interns Fletcher Jacobs and Evan Tea; remembering
Sierra Club’s Larry Mehlhaff; visitors.
BLM and Forest Service officials say they have little
power to prevent drilling in an area once it’s been
OK’d for leasing, but critics say the government simply
refuses to use its power
The BLM’s decision to lease land for energy
exploration in the watersheds of Grand Junction and Palisade,
Colo., reveals the way oil and gas leasing works
Bikers, filmmakers, engineers, cheesemakers all visit
HCN; Ed Wayburn celebrates 100th
birthday
Matt Jenkins wins prize for Western Environmental
Journalism, and Paolo Bacigalupi wins Theodore Sturgeon Memorial
Award for science fiction short story; HCN board
meeting and potluck in Missoula; visitors; Tim McKay dies
Terms commonly used in endangered species discussions
– species, subspecies and distinct population segment –
are explained
Four more pages in this HCN; Beemers
& dreamers; corrections
New Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne junks Gale
Norton’s controversial Park Service proposal; New
Mexico’s Nantac Mexican wolf pack killed; Justice Department
removes Judge Royce Lamberth from Indian trust case
Summer editorial retreat, global warming booklet is here,
lots of summer visitors
California Rep. Richard Pombo wins Republican primary
against Pete McCloskey; Washington’s "Forest and Fish Report"
protects logging companies that inadvertently harm salmon;
Wyoming’s Martin’s Cove tones down the religious
stuff
HCN takes summer break; new high school
intern Abbie Rodriguez and marketing intern Jessica Bellows; spring
visitors; online survey; clarifications
Libby, Mont., asbestos victims now eligible for
disability; new wind-power farm to come to Colorado; New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson petitions to protect his state’s
roadless lands
Welcome, new interns Stephanie Paige Ogburn and Allison
Gerfin; Southwest Research and Information Center celebrates 35
years; Wendell Duffield wants to know what happened to the U.S.
Geological Survey
Carmella Hensyel joins HCN; Research
Fund acknowledgements; visitor; former interns hit the big time;
Michelle Nijhuis wins journalism award; Jodi Peterson & the
Late Show
Mining company allowed to dump waste into Alaskan lake;
Colorado split-estate bill unravels; Arizona’s Oak Flat may
become a copper mine
Katie Lee and other visitors; where do you get your news?
farewell, Philip Hyde; notes from readers; missing pages in
HCN?
Sens. Max Baucus and Ron Wyden want to raise money for
rural schools by closing tax loopholes; Yates Petroleum won’t
drill in Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge; Montana wants to keep
Wyoming’s coalbed methane from harming rivers’ water
quality
Jonathan Thompson wins awards for Silverton paper;
visitors; Luna Leopold dies; clarification; corrections
HCN wins design awards; Matthew Lewis visits; Black Mesa
Trust closes Flagstaff office; Dennis Weaver dies; new comment
deadline for public-land sales
HCN now has a blog; HCN’s Tucson board meeting and potluck; correction and clarification
Grazing fees to be cut; Russian drill rigs coming to
Colorado; new power plant on Navajo Nation gets big tax break;
Washington may become sixth Western state with renewable energy
standards
Welcome, Lillian Jane Lawrence (Laura Paskus’
daughter); Jonathan Thompson new HCN editor;
HCN intern program; William Kent of Moab dies;
photo caption correction
Welcome, Janiec Gutierrez; V.B. Price visits; talk back to
hcn.org; Dan Egan wins journalism award; HCN friends in Aspen Hall
of Fame; notes from readers
New interns Sarah Gilman and Brett Wilkison; remembering
Robert E. "Bob" Wolf; HCN potluck in Tucson
Who rewrote Park Service’s management policies?;
judge permits building of U.S.-Mexico border fence; Superintendent
David Hunsaker leaves Utah’s Escalante National Monument;
judge says Forest Service blew his ruling out of
proportion
Happy Holidays from HCN; festive recipes; Juan Butron wins
award
"Speed dating" brings Utah legislators and lobbyists
together; EPA cleaning up fewer sites; Fallon, Nev., residents
breathing dangerous tungsten and cobalt; poaching at Wyoming drill
rigs
Visitors; notes from readers; corrections
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