The Sierra Club's endorsement of draining Lake Powell
spurs controversy about dam deconstruction as well as the club's
decision-making policy and whether it was violated.
Items by Ed Marston
Research fund; fixing a glitch; September board meeting;
visitors.
In his own words, environmental attorney and Quincy
Library Group member Michael Jackson discusses the group.
In her own words, environmentalist Terry Terhaar discusses
her positive experience with the Quincy Library Group.
In her own words, environmentalist Erin Noel discusses her
negative experience with the Quincy Library Group.
In her own words, Rose Comstock of California Women in
Timber discusses how she overcame her reservations to try to work
with the Quincy Library Group.
In his own words, Undersecretary of Agriculture Jim Lyons
discusses the Quincy Library Group and its larger meaning for the
country as a whole.
The Quincy Library Group's controversial forest plan comes
out of a long struggle for consensus, and many environmentalists
worry that the plan and its passage into law will set a dangerous
precedent.
As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 125th
birthday, it continues to struggle with the surrounding states over
wildlife management and other questions.
Out of the hot (visitors); in other news (Jon Christensen
writing for New York Times).
Environmentalist Dave Foreman, in a talk in Paonia, Colo.,
praises conservation biology as a way to restore the wild, but
hesitates to offer on-the-ground details of the cure.
Oregon's new magazine, "Capital Press," covers
agricultural issues in the Northwest.
Summer skipped issue; in memory of Marge Higley; Paul
Larmer to direct Writers on the Range; share reading lists or books
with a Denver community center; connecting to the West.
Word from Gretchen; corrections, including Charlotte Black
Elk; about guns and such (Myles Rademan), diversity; a new look for
HCN; May 31 board meeting; advice; and call them fellows.
Please send correct addresses; thank you, Erwin and Peggy
Bauer, for donating photos; Anne and George Norris and deer in the
dinette in Somerset; in other news, and visitors.
Feedback; Manas magazine returns to life; new interns
Jamie Murray and Alan Schussman.
Spring visitors, feedback, HCN's potluck in Paonia May
31
Big Sky apology, reader surveys, research fund feedback,
extravagant responses to April Fools, the Unabomber, spring intern
Emily Miller.
A report titled "The Information Dirt Road" says that
rural areas such as western Colorado are being shortchanged by the
deregulation of telecommunications.
A film called "The Burning Barrel," intended for PBS,
offers a nostalgic portrait of a South Dakota childhood and a grim
view of the present.
Plaudits for Frank and Deborah Popper; visitors,
corrections, and Rob Pudim's "consensus cartoon" comes
home.
Small-town post offices, spring visitors, Henrietta Hay
visits, HCN overwhelmed by job applicants.
In his own words, editor Matt Winters of the Chinook
Observer gives his view of the Willapa Alliance.
Alana Probst in her own words on creating sustainable
economies for Washington's Willapa Bay.
Out for birds at N.M.'s Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge;
HCN board meeting in Socorro, N.M.; 19,000 readers; subscription
raise; obituary for Ruth Hutchins.
A Colorado judge rules that hunters can sue the state for
using money collected from taxes on hunters and fishermen to
purchase land near Rifle for a prison site.
Board meeting and potluck in Socorro, N.M.; HCN's growing
pains and direct mail; winter intern Danielle Desruisseaux; in
other news; thank you, Ginnie Newsom.
Reviewing Thomas Michael Power's "Lost Landscapes and
Failed Economies," HCN's publisher disputes the author's conclusion
that the West's new service economy will create the best of all
possible worlds.
The photographs of Eric Paddock in his new book,
"Belonging to the West," celebrate the ordinary landscapes that are
the heart of the West.
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