Items by James Bishop Jr.
On the Navajo Reservation, Indigenous Community
Enterprises is using thinned small trees from fire-prone, overgrown
forests to build hogans for housing - and the tribal economy as
well.
Anthropologist Christy Turner has stirred up a lot of
controversy with his book, "Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in
the Prehistoric American Southwest."
The controversial Mohave power plant in Laughlin, Nev., is
a huge operation that provides pollution as well as power to the
Southwest.
The Clinton administration's attempt to increase
flight-free zones in Grand Canyon upsets air-tour operators and
conservationists who say the new rules aren't tough
enough.
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission issues an
ambitious proposed air-quality cleanup blueprint for the Colorado
Plateau.
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission gives
people a chance to comment on the need to clean up the air in Grand
Canyon and the Colorado Plateau.
Industry claims that the Grand Canyon's haze problem is
naturally caused rile artists and photographers and others who
really know how to look at landscapes.
Grand Canyon Trust report shows Colorado Plateau
archaeological sites being vandalized at an alarming
rate.
Grand Canyon Trust uses non-confrontational style to help
shape future of the Southwest's Colorado Plateau.
The Forest Service's plans to build a campground and trade
land with developers galvanize resistance residents of Sedona and
Prescott, Ariz.
A century-long battle for water rights waged by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona ended as Western film rarely do: The Indians won.
Unless he returns to tell it himself, we'll never know his fate for certain, but it appears that he began to realize that his love of wilderness, his quest for oneness with nature, had him trapped. He knew he could never go back.
Tucson, Ariz.-based Wildlife Damage Review spreads the word about how taxpayers finance the killing of predators.
- John W Stephens on Latest: California fracking companies inject protected aquifers with wastewater
- Kent Schoberle on Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
- Rich & Terry Fairbanks on Rural communities in the West need a fair shake
- on Jim Deacon, pioneering desert fish biologist, dies
- Larry Bullock on Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
