Hearing Voices, a collective of
independent radio producers, is working to add spice to public
broadcasting
Items by Adam Burke
Elaborate marijuana gardens, created and managed by
Mexican drug lords, are turning California’s public lands
into a dangerous, illegal, industrial-style landscape
Black Range District Fire Manager Toby Richards is
returning fire to its natural place on New Mexico’s Gila
National Forest – and leading the charge for Fire Use in the
West.
Land managers have been talking about letting more
wildfires burn, but the recent blowup of the Peppin Fire near
Capitan, N.M. – home of Smokey Bear – leads to renewed
talk of aggressive fire suppression
Writer David James Duncan talks about his "insane passion
for rivers" and the broken hearts of Westerners
Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber talks about resolving
political conflict in the West – and in the world
Montana rancher Buck Brannaman talks about the fight he
and his wife, Mary, have been waging to protect their land from
exploitation by an energy company
The spread of farmed Atlantic salmon along the coast of
British Columbia may impact more than native salmon and local
communities; it could also harm our commitment to saving endangered
species and their habitat
In Soul of Nowhere, writer Craig Childs
explores the rugged canyons of the southwest and the ruins left
behind by past civilizations that did their best to "match the
scenery" yet still perished.
Colorado writer Alex Merkels talks about the revolution in
wind power now sweeping over the West.
Writer Sherman Alexie talks about Hollywood, tokenism and
being an Indian.
Not surprisingly, Alexie's new release, The Business of Fancydancing, explodes our preconceptions about race, sexuality and artistry.
The rush to develop methane on Wyoming's public lands hits
a speed bump as the Department of Interior Board of Land Appeals
agrees with environmental groups that the BLM used inadequate
studies when issuing leases for coalbed-methane drilling.
Developing energy at any cost appears to be the Bush
administration's strategy as they send "thumper trucks" into
southern Utah to carry out seismic detection of oil
deposits.
On river trips, Richard Ingebretsen of the Glen Canyon
Institute talks about Lake Powell and introduces people to the idea
of removing Glen Canyon Dam and resurrecting the Colorado River's
drowned canyons.
In his own words, Orville Campbell, who spent 30 years
working for the companies that own the Elwha dams, talks about the
movement to take down those dams.
Robert Lundahl's new film, "Unconquering the Last
Frontier," explores the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's history with
Washington's Elwha River and its salmon.
For 30 years, activists have been working to remove two
dams and restore salmon runs on Washington's Elwha River, and now
the goal is in sight - if the money comes through from
Congress.
"Divided waters" lead story; Sandy Tolan's radio advice;
reader feedback; HCN business folk; congratulations to Chip Giller
and correction.
While anti-dam activists hold lively rallies calling for
the demolition of Glen Canyon Dam, the pro-dam group Friends of
Lake Powell stages rallies of its own, defending the reservoir and
the local economy based on it.
On a recent Colorado visit, Interior Secretary Bruce
Babbitt discusses possible land-protection measures for Black
Ridge, outside of Grand Junction, and for 150,000 acres of
archaeologically rich land near Cortez, Colo.
The Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust is
helping ranchers such as Brett Redden of Gunnison use conservation
easements to save their land from developers.
Pressured by a Sierra Club lawsuit, the city of Colorado
Springs has agreed to clean up streams and wetlands degraded by the
city-operated toll road up Pikes Peak.
Critics say that Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard's Spanish
Peaks wilderness bill leaves a road unprotected - a "cherry stem" -
that will benefit developer Tom Chapman, who owns a mining claim at
the end of it.
In southeast Colorado, Baca and Prowers counties put a
bounty on coyotes - $7.50 for each pair of coyote ears.
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