The West is on fire; Dick Cheney exposed; toning down
RS-2477; and firefighting statistics
Items by Jonathan Thompson
On the messy bureaucratic soap opera As Interior Turns,
the cast keeps changing, and getting indicted; Good Samaritans need
to able to clean up old mines without getting burned; foreign
countries drive Western mining boom; and data about
mining
Western states get serious about global warming; Colorado
stands up to energy industry; environmental
“terrorists” sentenced; “Kids in the
Woods”; McMansions & mobile homes; eco-chic ain’t
cheap
Chefs fight for salmon, and uranium gets hotter;
electricity usage and generation in the West; data on park fees and
visitors
Westerners like to romanticize our wide-open spaces and
wild wolves, but in rural areas, our real mascot is the ubiquitous
feral dog
James M. Doohan heads to final frontier (briefly) from New
Mexico’s spaceport; northern spotted owls in trouble again;
Veterans Conservation Corps; drugged up and rehabbing in the
West
Western real estate slump hits suburbs, but developers
keep on developing; Marijuana McMansions; copper booming; Logan,
Utah, rejects dirty power; Tri-State puts off two coal power
plants; animals killed by Wildlife Services
Death (and life) in the Sonoran Desert; fire and drought
in the Southwest; courts rule against Bush on environmental
issues.
No yellow snow for Snowbowl; gonorrhea and meth: a match
made in hell; split-estate bills in New Mexico and Colorado;
Montana’s green energy bills languish; “Rocky Mountain
High” second Colorado state song, bolo tie is official New
Mexico neckwear.
Western governors go green; King Coal gets hammered;
Divine Strake strikes out; Colorado cons on the North Forty; Mother
Nature’s bodyguards; Western wagering data; and energy use
and Bush approval: a case of eerie symmetry.
Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies;
farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle
The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change has bad
news; Govs. propose global warming legislation; nuclear revival in
the wings; Rockies Prosperity Act back in Congress; Arizona may
stifle ballot measures; Bush’s budget; the West’s
electrical grid.
Forest Service faces budget cuts; Rural Schools Act dies;
local governments may have to pay more firefighting costs; user
fees upheld; grazing fees go down; Klamath dams may fall; livestock
killed by wolves, and wolves killed; and UFOs in the
West.
Cross-country skiers and snowmobilers clash over access to
Logan Canyon, Utah; Mount Jefferson, Mont.; and (of course)
Yellowstone; Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth steps down to be
replaced by Gail Kimbell; West becomes player in national politics;
bor
The writer derides the recent busts of illegal
immigrants
Boosters of a Western primary hope it could give the
Interior West a greater voice in the politics of Washington,
D.C.
In 10 Western states this November, voters face a total of
82 ballot measures
Mongolians visit HCN; Chuck and Tim
Worley visit; Tucson’s lawns; Wilderness Society honors Terry
Tempest Williams and Tom Bell; correction
The writer started a weekly paper: Why doesn't
everybody?
In an introduction to this special issue celebrating
independent media, High Country News associate
editor Jonathan Thompson recalls the exciting, exhausting,
high-caffeine years he spent publishing his own newspaper in a
small mountain town
With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging
a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered
past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor
cheap
Photographer Jared Boyd spends a day with Navajo Alice
Benally, who lives less than a mile from the Four Corners Power
Plant but only received electricity last year
With the Interior West’s national parks facing an increase in haze and air pollution, Rocky Mountain National Park is working with government agencies to improve air quality
Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of
contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from
other Latinos
This special issue of High Country News
takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal
immigration in the West
As the outside world bullies its way into northern New
Mexico, the native Hispano culture has begun to fray, and today the
region has the highest rate of heroin addiction in the
country
The former mining town of Silverton, Colo., has put its
economic hopes in plans for a new but old-fashioned small-scale,
low-key ski area, but some worry the area is too avalanche-prone to
be safe.
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