Items by Betsy Marston

The valley around us is deep
The Forest Service asked William Stafford to write poems for the scenic turnouts along the river valley. Poems reprinted.
Betsy Marston Nov. 28, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Another special issue, Chip Rawlins reading, visitors.
Betsy Marston Nov. 14, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Hunting season, Bruce Selcraig is visiting journalist, fall visitors
Betsy Marston Oct. 31, 1994 From the print edition
For the full scolding
BuRec falls down on job of managing water, audit concludes.
Betsy Marston Oct. 31, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Society of Environmental Journalists meets in Utah; visitors; growth issue a hit.
Betsy Marston Oct. 17, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Energy award, marriages and visits, corrections, Charles Wilkinson
Ed And Betsy Marston Aug. 22, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Arrival of Ray Ring and family, visitors, corrections.
Ed And Betsy Marston Aug. 8, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Wake fire near Paonia, 14 firefighters killed near Glenwood Springs.
Ed And Betsy Marston July 25, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Good news for staff; Fan mail for Gretchen; Recycled paper; Flights over Grand Canyon; March for trees; Visitors.
Betsy Marston May 30, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Odds and ends, HCN survey, avalanches in northwest, intern Peter McBride.
Ed And Betsy Marston May 2, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Odds and ends, visitors, transitions, intern Carol Busch, barebones, high praise.
Betsy And Ed Marston April 18, 1994 From the print edition
No change on the range
Wanderings of an Environmental Journalist In Alaska and the American West. Essays by Philip Fradkin reviewed.
Betsy Marston March 7, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Commuting over McClure Pass, ad rates going up, Diane Sylvain art show.
Betsy Marston March 7, 1994 From the print edition
Dear friends
Miscelleneous, visitors, direct mail, Arizona bureau, Great Basin interns.
Betsy Marston Feb. 21, 1994 From the print edition
The new West is as restless as the old
People move West, move in and move on.
Betsy Marston Jan. 24, 1994 From the print edition
Farmers outgunned by the oil and gas industry
The Colorado Legislature guts a bill protecting farmers' interests against the oil and gas industry.
Betsy Marston June 14, 1993 From the print edition
Environmental groups lose Burr Trail case
Four environmental groups suffered a defeat when U.S. District Judge Aldon Anderson ruled that Utah's rugged and beautiful Burr Trail may be widened and improved in Garfield County.
Betsy Marston Dec. 21, 1987 From the print edition
Hidden, but vulnerable
Congress considers a little-known bill -- the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act -- that would guard the thousands of caves underlying public lands from vandalism and other forms of destruction.
Betsy Marston Dec. 21, 1987 From the print edition
Edward Abbey is an optimist
"The world is older, bigger and more interesting than we are. Growth is the enemy. Every organism grows to optimum space, then stops." If it doesn't, he says, it's a freak, which means our overblown and overdone technological civilization is headed for a great explosion, followed by collapse. "That's why I'm an optimist."
Betsy Marston Opinion Sept. 15, 1986 From the print edition
Canyon flights attract a comment blitz
A Grand Canyon National Park superintendent spent much of this summer sifting advice from the public on how to reduce noise from airplanes and helicopters flying in the 1,900-square mile park.
Betsy Marston Sept. 1, 1986 From the print edition
Grizzly bears: Thriving or vanishing?
A spring conference called "The fate of the grizzly," sponsored primarily by the University of Colorado Environmental Center, brought together critics of the federal bureaucracy involved in Yellowstone National Park, plus a few of the bureaucrats themselves.
Betsy Marston May 26, 1986 From the print edition
High Noon in Washington, D.C.
After a year of negotiation between cattle growers, nine national conservation organizations and congressional aides, no compromise was reached on the controversial issue of fees for livestock grazing on public land.
Betsy Marston Dec. 23, 1985 From the print edition
The Park Service fights a garbage dump
In Colorado, a garbage dump is proposed next to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
Betsy Marston Dec. 9, 1985 From the print edition
Wilderness management's time has come
Although hundreds of wilderness areas have been created, few are actually managed according to the spirit of the Wilderness Act.
Betsy Marston May 27, 1985 From the print edition
Two western forces clash at Jackson Lake
The frailness of Jackson Dam brings two sacred Western forces into conflict: agricultural water rights versus one of America's most beautiful and popular national parks.
Ed Marston and Betsy Bernfeld Feb. 4, 1985 From the print edition
Voters seize the initiative on nuclear waste
By an overwhelming 62 percent margin, South Dakota voters passed an initiative that gives the people the "exclusive right" to approve or reject the disposal of all nuclear wastes within the state.
Betsy Marston Dec. 10, 1984 From the print edition
Wilderness fight leads to symbolic hanging
Three members of a grassroots environmental group in south-central Utah were hanged in effigy last month in the town of Escalante.
Betsy Marston June 11, 1984 From the print edition
A coal miner takes on the safety bureaucracy
Pat Conkle, a former Paonia, Colo. coal miner, has succeeded in forcing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to defend itself before the House Safety and Health Subcommittee.
Betsy Marston May 14, 1984 From the print edition
Foes launch first-strike attack on MX
The MX missile deployment in Nebraska and Wyoming is meeting stepped up opposition, with Colorado pressing to be included in an assessment of regional impacts.
Betsy Marston March 19, 1984 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visitors, odds and ends, mistaken identity.
Ed And Betsy Marston Sept. 5, 1970 From the print edition
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