Bears move into Mammoth Lakes, Calif.; cows gorge to death
in Wash.; beef cows maligned in Idaho; fighting hog farms in Colo.;
hogs stink; PETA tries to save Glacier's fish; April fool stuff;
Aspen's woes.
Items by Betsy Marston
Vail snowshoer meets cougar; cougars eat dogs in Nev;
grizzlies "unacceptable species" in Idaho county; death-row dogs in
Ore.; Denver coyote; Bruce Babbitt missing?; Gov. Racicot meets
school kids; pennies from heaven in Utah; expensive Pentagon
screws.
Bears like pepper spray; bear-proof containers; "Rapture"
Society; "superworms" not super; Westerners love themselves;
fencing Yellowstone; ski the potato; marijuana equals
activism.
El and Al Nino; Sabino Canyon's gun club neighbor; term
limits reconsidered; greens lack political clout; Mary Dalton vs.
Forest Service; first grader pardoned for candy passing; exploding
urinals in D.C.; deer crossing and iceberg lettuce.
Congratulations to Greg Hanscom and Tara Thomas and
others; newsletters galore; mailing list policy.
Aspen fashion and ski lift prices; Vail absolutely miffed;
Simpsons wisdom; cougar roast; Delta, Colo., ATV ranting; hoovering
the air of Phoenix.
Alluring trees on trial; posh Park City party; pity
Arizona; golf in Arizona; polo field in Grand Junction; no
affordable housing in Ketchum; no bike lands at DIA; acronyms
aplenty at INEEL.
Spam and other worst recipes; bears raiding Denver
fridges; South Dakota's religious tolerance; deer jumps into
Montana van; what helicopters spy in the Central Arizona Project's
canals; cow pie lagoons; Hong Kong film subtitles.
Catching up on newspapers; HCN potluck in Tucson, Ariz.;
winter intern Michelle Nijhuis.
Stranded skier dances; Grand Junction, Colo., sheriff
victim of alcoholism disability; warhead smashes (empty) trailers
in Utah; teen kills deer by hand; NRA defends "Star Spangled
Banner'; paying overdue fines at wedding; bus riders on Colo.
82.
Snowtime in the Rockies, skipped issue, corrections,
Tucson board meeting, John McPhee recommends HCN.
Romanian road rage in Mont.; Idaho poachers spear chinook
salmon; Wonder Bread recaptures roaming zoo buffalo; crows chase
coyote in Seattle; goldfish surgery; escaping emu in Utah; beaver
re-landscapes condominium; drinking and riding in Great
Falls.
Alfred E. Neuman goes West; strange true crime stories;
Utah vs. Olympics beer; Utah vs. Rodin; "Jerks in Montana history,"
D.I.A. and blizzards; suggestions for future.
HCN research fund; Herman F. Dieterich; turkeys are
gone.
Hunter self-esteem; pseudo-deer vs. poachers; elk overflow
in Sequim, Wash.; hired dog for politican; dogs are avenged; guns
equal politeness.
Nevada Test Site protests; Society of Environmental
Journalists meet; fall visitors.
A review of Hannah Hinchman's "A Trail Through Leaves: The
Journal as a Path to Place."
Ostrich meat in White House; llamas need new image; bears
misbehaving all over the West; tent is private property;
anti-terrorist guerilla action in Summit County, Colo.; wolf
Houdini hero in Yellowstone.
Joe Camel needs work; Rolling Stones not playing Buffalo,
Wyo.; cows vs. mosquitoes; useful bird activities; decorating
outhouse walls; grizzlies vs. lodge in Katmai Nat'l Park in Alaska;
Testicle Festival in Clinton, Mont.
Patricia Nelson Limerick speaks; kudos; green comic book;
fall visitors.
The anthology "Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the
Heart of the West" is a mosaic of seldom-heard voices from the High
Plains.
Yellowstone's rickety sewer system; California is booming;
creating salmon habitat with dump trucks; killing trees to save
woodpeckers; usefulness of sheep; border collie in D.C.
The gardener's payoff; new fall interns Jason "Andy"
Lenderman and Sara Phillips; late-summer visitors; T.A. Barron
receives Wilderness Society award; farewell, Paria Skip (Rodney
Schipper).
Welcome, hunters; Steve Howke's wedding; cow-chip bingo;
cows not home on range; ravens collect golf balls.
Good news for cows; "Baywatch breakout" in NM; river
guides defend urine integrity; activist Delyla Wilson at fault for
hurling bison guts; flying reptiles in NM; Slick Rock Cafe beats
Hard Rock Cafe in lawsuit; Bill Gates' Seattle mansion.
"Depressing ... diligent" among comments on the returned
1997 HCN readers' surveys; our readers are "no shrinking
violets."
The "sunscreen speech"; tourist questions; bats in the
bleachers in St. George, Utah; little old ladies and drug
smuggling; scary stories from Hanford.
Corrections; Cal Sunderland's update on radiation therapy;
visitors; cougar seen in Paonia, Colo.; environmentalist Sandy
Sargent dies of leukemia.
Book review of "Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of
Population Growth" by Alan Thein Durning and Christopher D.
Crowther.
Aspen's swimming pool war; Phil Anschutz's golf course
near Greeley, Colo.; studying prairie dog language; "Animal Farm"
no defense in Newport, Wash.; animal cruelty case; trees cut in
Eugene, Ore.; did Steve Mealey moon the shoreline?; "Bare Bum
Beach"
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