A radical change could be coming to the way electric co-ops across the country do business.
Items by Ed Marston
A book review of Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country by Jedediah S. Rogers
With the help of his wife, Connie, and a bunch of determined fellow ranchers, the late Doc Hatfield helped change the face of public-lands ranching in the West.
Douglas Brinkley's magisterial The Wilderness Warrior describes how Teddy Roosevelt created the American West we love today.
Former HCN publisher concludes that those who live in the
West must accept its unpredictability.
In Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes,
the late historian Alvin Josephy Jr. has assembled essays by nine
Indian writers who examine the Corps of Discovery from the other
side of the cultural looking glass
Herman Warsh, a beloved former HCN
board member and longtime supporter of the paper, is dead
The neglected, underestimated Interior West might plant
the seeds of change for the current American empire
The writer sees political leadership emerging from the
West, a region disdained by the Eastern establishment.
The writer once suggested that the U.S. Forest Service
clear-cut itself; to his surprise, it did
The board member of a small electric utility opines that
the wind power mandate of Colorado's Amendment 37 is good for the
energy industry, despite the utilities' resistance
The writer cheers Colorado voters who pushed renewable
energy onto the stodgy producers of electricity
The writer thanks the Sierra Club for engaging us in a
conversation about immigration and how many Americans are too
many
Ed Marston tells a love story about one of the
West’s embattled trees
Putting Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt in charge of the
Environmental Protection Agency is like using a goldfish to guard a
junkyard
Ed Marston believes Utah"s Gov. Leavitt is an
inappropriate choice to head the EPA.
Fire specialist Stephen Pyne’s new book,
Smokechasing, is a brilliant and thoughtful collection of essays on
a topic he knows very well
Ed Marston reviews fire-guru Stephen Pyne’s latest
book, Smokechasing, and agrees that we’ve got to learn to
live with wildfire in the West.
Back in the 1960s, both guns and butter were part of the
agenda in the Interior West and the nation; now, as a talk by
Colorado Rep. Scott McInnis reveals, guns seem to be the only thing
the Bush administration cares about
Ed Marston says the West has a negligent
landlord
A one-time New Yorker wonders if he will still love his
Western home, if the drought continues and the landscape he loves
keeps changing before his eyes.
The late writer Wallace Stegner tried to tell us years ago
that Westerners live in an arid region, and we need to adapt to
it
A talk with the patriarch of a large Mexican family leads
the writer to reconsider his former pro-immigration
stance
The son of immigrants reconsiders his pro-immigration
stance after talking to the patriarch of a very large Mexican
family
We all have a dog in grazing fight Ranchers grow good
food, strong communities Recreation is more harmful than ranching?
It's Marston who ignores science Find common ground on ranching
Time to ride into the sunset, Marston Is vegetariani
The landmark conference "Ranching West of the 100th
Meridian" is now available on four videotapes.
Welfare Ranching’s authors, George Wuerthner and
Mollie Matteson, are romantics who ignore the threat of sprawl and
the studies of scientists in their quest to ban all cattle grazing
on the West’s public lands.
The things I am thankful for this week are still there:
family, health, work, life in the rural West. But I have to scratch
beneath world events to find them. I can no longer live as if my
well-being depended only on me.
One-time Olympic runner Ben Eastman dies at the age of 91
in Hotchkiss, Colo.
Every day I'd leave high school about noon, take the
subway to 23rd Street, run down to the basement cafeteria for a
nutritious company meal, and then sort and deliver mail.
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