The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about
the West offers essays by 26 writers.
Items by Betsy Marston
A 1965 Bureau of Reclamation booklet declaimed the glories
of building Glen Canyon Dam.
Odds and ends; change of address advice
The Wild Muir: Twenty-two of John Muir's Greatest
Adventures is a delightful anthology of Muir's writings.
Chip Rawlins' burlesque opera "The Merchants of Menace,"
corrections, weather and visitors.
Death of reporter Jim Stiak; HCN board meeting report;
Cascadia Times; Visitors.
A review of Edward Wilson's autobiography
Naturalist.
Skipped issue, board meeting announcement, interns Ross
Freeman and Anders Halverson.
Former interns, odds and ends, corrections
The Forest Service asked William Stafford to write poems
for the scenic turnouts along the river valley. Poems
reprinted.
Another special issue, Chip Rawlins reading,
visitors.
Hunting season, Bruce Selcraig is visiting journalist,
fall visitors
BuRec falls down on job of managing water, audit
concludes.
Society of Environmental Journalists meets in Utah;
visitors; growth issue a hit.
Energy award, marriages and visits, corrections, Charles
Wilkinson
Arrival of Ray Ring and family, visitors,
corrections.
Wake fire near Paonia, 14 firefighters killed near
Glenwood Springs.
Good news for staff; Fan mail for Gretchen; Recycled
paper; Flights over Grand Canyon; March for trees;
Visitors.
Odds and ends, HCN survey, avalanches in northwest, intern
Peter McBride.
Odds and ends, visitors, transitions, intern Carol Busch,
barebones, high praise.
Wanderings of an Environmental Journalist In Alaska and
the American West. Essays by Philip Fradkin reviewed.
Commuting over McClure Pass, ad rates going up, Diane
Sylvain art show.
Miscelleneous, visitors, direct mail, Arizona bureau,
Great Basin interns.
People move West, move in and move on.
The Colorado Legislature guts a bill protecting farmers'
interests against the oil and gas industry.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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