Catching up on newspapers; HCN potluck in Tucson, Ariz.;
winter intern Michelle Nijhuis.
Items by Betsy Marston
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"
The contrary West (wet weather); Silverton newspaper for
sale; fun interruptions; Awesome and other news; and HCN's website
gets a makeover.
Rural elected officials order Los Angeles to stop
diverting 43 million gallons water a day from California's Owens
Lake.
Woodsy Owl's makeover; Ore. high school team no longer
"Savages"; Rainbows not welcomed in Prineville, Ore.; shooting in
Jackson, Wyo.; Helen Chenoweth on grizzlies; Wyo. Republican starts
field hearings; Wis. Rep. Obey replies to critics; Missy Cow
Cow.
Las Vegas chutzpah; a cemetery scholar's grave
observations; crazy snowboarding and dangerous driving; football as
blood sport in Albuquerque; angler rumps and porta-potties in
Idaho; heartening news in Idaho and Washington.
Bobby Unser whines about fires; runners win in Colo. Nat'l
Monument; Nev. Republican Rep. Jim Kibbens vs. BLM "monsters"; he's
baaack! (Tom Chapman); Indians protest "John Wayne Parkway";
Karelian bear dogs in Glacier N.P. and bear raids T-shirt
makers.
True story of balloon-powered lawn chair; owning Redstone
Castle not cheap; illegal pool-building in Aspen; anti-hunting
T-shirts; prairie dog hunting B&B; cyberspace riddles; Frosty
the freezer dog; Wash.'s road or religious sign; Chenoweth's
baloney.
John Clayton's book, "Small Town Bound: Your guide to
small-town living, from determining if life in the country lane is
for you, to choosing the perfect place to set roots, to making your
dream come true," is reviewed.
Why can't government manage the weather right?; Lake
Powell poop; jet ski management; bears learn to use the fridge;
"Diet Dirt"; N.D. and Italy work together to make pasta; Mark
Obmascik floats Denver's Cherry Creek through a golf
course.
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