Items by Ed Marston

Sierra Club moves to fortify its 'drain Lake Powell' campaign
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.
Ed Marston Oct. 13, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
Research fund; fixing a glitch; September board meeting; visitors.
Ed Marston Oct. 13, 1997 From the print edition
We're much stronger together
In his own words, environmental attorney and Quincy Library Group member Michael Jackson discusses the group.
Ed Marston Sept. 29, 1997 From the print edition
I was always welcomed there
In her own words, environmentalist Terry Terhaar discusses her positive experience with the Quincy Library Group.
Ed Marston Sept. 29, 1997 From the print edition
My experience with the Quincy group wasn't positive
In her own words, environmentalist Erin Noel discusses her negative experience with the Quincy Library Group.
Ed Marston Sept. 29, 1997 From the print edition
The stress was very heavy
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.
Ed Marston Sept. 29, 1997 From the print edition
We may be seeing the devolution of the environmental movement
In his own words, Undersecretary of Agriculture Jim Lyons discusses the Quincy Library Group and its larger meaning for the country as a whole.
Ed Marston Sept. 29, 1997 From the print edition
The timber wars evolve into a divisive attempt at peace
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.
Ed Marston Sept. 29, 1997 From the print edition
Yellowstone at 125: The park as a sovereign state
As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 125th birthday, it continues to struggle with the surrounding states over wildlife management and other questions.
Ed Marston Sept. 15, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
Out of the hot (visitors); in other news (Jon Christensen writing for New York Times).
Ed Marston Aug. 4, 1997 From the print edition
Foreman finds hope amid ecological rubble
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.
Ed Marston Opinion Essay Aug. 4, 1997 From the print edition
Not for aggies only
Oregon's new magazine, "Capital Press," covers agricultural issues in the Northwest.
Ed Marston July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Dear Friends
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.
Ed Marston July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Dear Friends
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.
Ed Marston June 23, 1997 From the print edition
Dear Friends
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.
Ed Marston June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
Feedback; Manas magazine returns to life; new interns Jamie Murray and Alan Schussman.
Betsy And Ed Marston May 26, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
Spring visitors, feedback, HCN's potluck in Paonia May 31
Ed Marston May 12, 1997 From the print edition
Dear Friends
Big Sky apology, reader surveys, research fund feedback, extravagant responses to April Fools, the Unabomber, spring intern Emily Miller.
Ed Marston April 28, 1997 From the print edition
The information dirt road
A report titled "The Information Dirt Road" says that rural areas such as western Colorado are being shortchanged by the deregulation of telecommunications.
Ed Marston April 14, 1997 From the print edition
The burning barrel
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.
Ed Marston April 14, 1997 From the print edition
Dear Friends
Plaudits for Frank and Deborah Popper; visitors, corrections, and Rob Pudim's "consensus cartoon" comes home.
Ed And Betsy Marston April 14, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
Small-town post offices, spring visitors, Henrietta Hay visits, HCN overwhelmed by job applicants.
Ed Marston March 31, 1997 From the print edition
A newsman's overview of Willapa
In his own words, editor Matt Winters of the Chinook Observer gives his view of the Willapa Alliance.
Ed Marston March 17, 1997 From the print edition
A 1,000-year plan for Willapa Bay
Alana Probst in her own words on creating sustainable economies for Washington's Willapa Bay.
Ed Marston March 17, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
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.
Ed Marston Feb. 17, 1997 From the print edition
Ed Marston replies
Ed Marston Feb. 3, 1997 From the print edition
Hunters get standing
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.
Ed Marston Jan. 20, 1997 From the print edition
Dear friends
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.
Ed Marston Jan. 20, 1997 From the print edition
Denying the warts on the West's service economy
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.
Ed Marston Essay Dec. 23, 1996 From the print edition
Belonging to the West
The photographs of Eric Paddock in his new book, "Belonging to the West," celebrate the ordinary landscapes that are the heart of the West.
Ed Marston Dec. 9, 1996 From the print edition
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