Items by Betsy Marston

Heard around the West
Pac-O-Art art vending machine; turning against Wal-Mart; Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest; Boy Scouts sued for blaze; ORVers need potty-training; bull elk get really hungry
Betsy Marston Aug. 30, 2004 From the print edition
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Forest Service fire liaison busted for tossing cigarette butts; Interior decorator Gale Norton; horse slasher; cell phones vs. snakes; neighborhood with the slurry on top; tough on crime at Yellowstone; and Bonner County, Idaho, is quiet
Betsy Marston Aug. 16, 2004 From the print edition
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Fahrenheit 9/11 stirs controversy in Park City; dead cottonwoods become art in Santa Fe; Bert Raynes loves names used for animal groups; do-it-yourself burials in San Francisco; Lewis and Clark’s shopping list; bear vs. truck in Tahoe; and bad bison
Betsy Marston Aug. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Dear Friends
The Bush "pants on fire" mobile visits; Ed Marston at the Sopris Foundation meeting in Aspen; Adam Burke on NPR; Lisa Lombardi in Australia; and Auden and Ellen Schendler welcome a baby girl
Laura Paskus and Betsy Marston Aug. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Masai warriors meet Arizona ranchers; Cosimo Cavallaro’s hammy art; anti-gambling protest gets nasty; in wealthy Teton County, Wyo., Jackson’s Tiki Taxi thrives; Newsweek’s strange idea of "budget travel"; mountain biker vs. mountain lion; and Great Salt
Betsy Marston July 19, 2004 From the print edition
Avedon at Work in the American West
Laura Wilson describes the time she spent roaming the West with photographer Richard Avedon in the early 1980s in her book, Avedon at Work in the American West
Betsy Marston June 21, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Firefighting fisherman; Denver’s dangerous principal; peregrine falcons and bridges; San Francisco’s parrots; jaguar gets the finger in Albuquerque
Betsy Marston June 21, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Bear "product inspectors"; Rapid City, S.D., supports transsexual city councilman; road rage afflicts runners in Boulder, Colo.; feral llamas; bovine back-scratchers; candidate Linda Kelsch tells Utah Legislature to mind its own morals
Betsy Marston June 7, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Fargo gets trendy; confrontation at the Chuck-A-Rama; Colorado tsunami; right places, wrong photos; Reagan U. bites the dust; endangered dinosaurs; Monterey County, Calif., is "birdiest" in the country
Betsy Marston May 24, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Arnold Schwarzenegger and hydrogen-powered cars; 19th century operas vs. political correctness; dogs vs. coyotes in Telluride; turning Mount Democrat into a Republican; Sen. Pete Dominici loses wallet and identity; stupid bank-robber tricks; and honk if y
Betsy Marston May 10, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
In Colorado, a legislator’s faux pas slams Kansas and Texas; dog lover in California worries about stranger’s dog and gets trespassing charge; Idaho’s Legislature worries little about consistency; in Nevada, burglar caught by his DNA signature in yellowed
Betsy Marston April 26, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
DS? cows are getting smarter about breaking out of the ranch; Bison in Yellowstone were felled by toxic gases; Coloradans have had an early spring thaw which in Crested Butte has revealed copious dog poop; Yale prof tells a capacity crowd at Univer
Betsy Marston April 12, 2004 From the print edition
Dear friends
Avalanches in Telluride, heat wave in Paonia; congratulations to Ed and Betsy Marston for John Wade Award; Ken Sleight gets Lifetime Achievement Award at 22nd Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene; Betsy Loyless, keynoter at the co
Greg Hanscom, Betsy Marston April 12, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Wandering sea lion; off-roading over geysers; Blizzard of 1049; Wyoming’s got money; bowling for meteorites; Lake Mead is shrinking; and controversial books at the public library
Betsy Marston March 29, 2004 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Hot tubs vs. wilderness; Grand Junction, Colo., vs. new logo; teenager survives spectacular snowmobile smash; Michael Jackson in Wal-mart; "For Christ’s sake go vegetarian"; and weakest excuse for speeding
Betsy Marston March 15, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Nevada’s getting big; urbanite hunters and the NRA; knapweed-sniffing dog; His Royal Highness goes skiing in Jackson Hole; blatant bellybuttons at BYU; Astrolawn in California; reindeer meat
Betsy Marston March 1, 2004 From the print edition
Heard around the West
Utahns vs. moose; mad cow jokes; missile-site home for sale; Rancho Costa Nada; famous trials of lurid cases, like Scott Peterson and Kobe Bryant, don’t always bring money to the towns that host them
Betsy Marston Feb. 16, 2004 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Lonely Democrats in the West; antlers vs. hammocks; suburban bighorns; farting fish; fish on Prozac; Idaho potato vodka; and "6FU" Road
Betsy Marston Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Cloning trophy bucks; glove kills polar bear; Grand Tetons in Colorado?; potato chip bombs; Monticello, Utah’s "citizens of the year"; rural Wyoming in The New York Times; Bureau of Penis Enlargement?; Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is humble; and mother c
Betsy Marston Jan. 19, 2004 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Fat bears; La Verkin welcomes U.N.; Boise, Utah; scratch ‘n’ sniff for rural newcomers; pronghorn vs. antelope; clear-thinking kids thwart crazy bus driver; and global warming is good for wine
Betsy Marston Dec. 22, 2003 From the print edition
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Circumcised elk; grizzly bear highway deaths; recycling fraud in California; money talks at Copper Mountain; newspaper bloopers; crime waves in Cortez, Colo
Betsy Marston Dec. 8, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Mountain lion kittens in trouble; Despair, Inc.; escaping buffalo in Great Falls; high country nudes in Issaquah; and Boo Boo Blodgett wins the Rez Car Parade
Betsy Marston Nov. 24, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Concealed weapons in Utah schools; fun with Dick Cheney outdoors; "mouse-to-mouse resuscitation" in Colorado; stress and burnout among wolves; and bear mugs women in Montana
Betsy Marston Nov. 10, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around The West
Seabiscuit moves to Colorado; black bear vs. David Letterman; Hanford’s radioactive wasp nests; Helen Thomas vs. Brigham Young University; BLM ranger Dick Godwin vs. desert junk and shot-up appliances
Betsy Marston Oct. 27, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Desert residents vs. desert sand; really overdue library books; Ken Lay’s Aspen real estate woes; sage grouse vs. jets in Wyoming; "emergency phone" calls in North Dakota; gardener named Gardener vs. Laramie, Wyo.; and Oregon driver vs. bee
Betsy Marston Oct. 13, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Trouble at Burning Man; take your prostate to the County Fair; spotted knapweed kills its rivals; what happens to "liberated" mink; what to do when a bear attacks you; exploding pigs; "scratch ‘n’ sniff" for city folks
Betsy Marston Sept. 29, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
What would Jesus – or Jesus Rivera – drive?; driving a "Tango;" cross-dressing in the Old West; nasty amoebas in Yellowstone’s hot pools; boom-bust in Colorado ski country; state fairs worry over lamb-tail removal
Betsy Marston Sept. 15, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Boy Scouts with hatchets and heavy equipment; vanishing Lake Powell; speaking ill of the dead in New Mexico; Forest Service suspends supervisors for centerfold displays; suspicious of the Declaration of Independence in Flagstaff; and a Montana stoic adapt
Betsy Marston Sept. 1, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Sen. Larry Craig plays petty politics with the Air Force; robbery in Aspen; Phoenix is too darn hot; Idaho newspaper takes on fee demo program; Montana anglers take on Huey Lewis; and chickens slaughtered in California wood chipper
Betsy Marston Aug. 18, 2003 From the print edition
Heard Around the West
Plants vs. terrorists; "Bovolexia"; Sierra Club brand products; rancher vs. Forest Service over water for firefighting; California vs. undisciplined bladders; and both enviros and conservatives rap Bush on environment
Betsy Marston Aug. 4, 2003 From the print edition
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