Items by Jodi Peterson

Dear friends
HCN board meeting, potluck and intern reunion in Paonia; visitors; postage increase unfair to small publications; farewell to activist Jim Jontz
Jodi Peterson May 14, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visitors; April Fool’s in Aspen; Jason Fisher meets an old friend; farewell to Joyce Jorgensen; and corrections
Jodi Peterson April 30, 2007 From the print edition
An endangered Endangered Species Act?
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tries an end-run around the Endangered Species Act; a leaked draft would weaken the bedrock law by changing the regulations that implement it rather than the law itself.
Jodi Peterson April 16, 2007 From the print edition
Dear Friends
Life for interns after HCN; tell us what you think in our annual survey.
Jodi Peterson April 16, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Wilf Bruschke visits; singer John Winn writes a song inspired by Patricia Walsh’s column on green burial; Claire Anderson helps dogs in Mexico; clarification and corrections
Jodi Peterson April 2, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies; farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle
Jodi Peterson and Jonathan Thompson March 19, 2007 From the print edition
The end of ‘analysis paralysis’?
The Forest Service has overhauled its cumbersome forest-planning process, but many experts say the agency may have gone too far.
Jodi Peterson Feb. 19, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visitors; HCN in Title Nine catalog; clarification, corrections
Jodi Peterson Feb. 19, 2007 From the print edition
Dear Friends
New winter interns Erin Halcomb and Michelle Blank; HCN wins Utne press award; Crystal Zevon visits; corrections.
Michelle Blank, Erin Halcomb and Jodi Peterson Jan. 22, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
HCN takes a holiday break; Betsy Marston and Jon Christensen on TV; HCN hosts discussion and film in San Francisco; a note from Steve Wilent of indy paper The Mountain Times; correction.
Jodi Peterson Dec. 25, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Rick Craig wins Nelson Algren Award; visitors; Bill Frank Jr. and John Echohawk win Wallace Stegner Award; HCN is looking for good writers
Jodi Peterson Dec. 11, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
HCN’s Christmas open house; Michelle Nijhuis wins another award for climate change stories; visitors; Bill Burnham dies; Jodi Peterson back from sick leave
Jodi Peterson Nov. 27, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
HCN says goodbye to Greg Hanscom and welcomes new editor John Mecklin; notes from readers
Greg Hanscom and Jodi Peterson Nov. 13, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
High Country News needs your support; visitors; corrections
Jodi Peterson Oct. 2, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
New fall interns Fletcher Jacobs and Evan Tea; remembering Sierra Club’s Larry Mehlhaff; visitors.
Fletcher Jacobs, Evan Tea and Jodi Peterson Sept. 18, 2006 From the print edition
When can the BLM say 'no'?
BLM and Forest Service officials say they have little power to prevent drilling in an area once it’s been OK’d for leasing, but critics say the government simply refuses to use its power
Jodi Peterson Sept. 4, 2006 From the print edition
The anatomy of an energy lease
The BLM’s decision to lease land for energy exploration in the watersheds of Grand Junction and Palisade, Colo., reveals the way oil and gas leasing works
Jodi Peterson Sept. 4, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Bikers, filmmakers, engineers, cheesemakers all visit HCN; Ed Wayburn celebrates 100th birthday
Jodi Peterson Sept. 4, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Matt Jenkins wins prize for Western Environmental Journalism, and Paolo Bacigalupi wins Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for science fiction short story; HCN board meeting and potluck in Missoula; visitors; Tim McKay dies
Jodi Peterson Aug. 21, 2006 From the print edition
A few scientific definitions
Terms commonly used in endangered species discussions – species, subspecies and distinct population segment – are explained
Jodi Peterson Aug. 7, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Four more pages in this HCN; Beemers & dreamers; corrections
Jodi Peterson Aug. 7, 2006 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
New Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne junks Gale Norton’s controversial Park Service proposal; New Mexico’s Nantac Mexican wolf pack killed; Justice Department removes Judge Royce Lamberth from Indian trust case
Jodi Peterson July 24, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Summer editorial retreat, global warming booklet is here, lots of summer visitors
Jodi Peterson July 24, 2006 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
California Rep. Richard Pombo wins Republican primary against Pete McCloskey; Washington’s "Forest and Fish Report" protects logging companies that inadvertently harm salmon; Wyoming’s Martin’s Cove tones down the religious stuff
Jodi Peterson June 26, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
HCN takes summer break; new high school intern Abbie Rodriguez and marketing intern Jessica Bellows; spring visitors; online survey; clarifications
Jodi Peterson June 26, 2006 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
Libby, Mont., asbestos victims now eligible for disability; new wind-power farm to come to Colorado; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson petitions to protect his state’s roadless lands
Jodi Peterson June 12, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Welcome, new interns Stephanie Paige Ogburn and Allison Gerfin; Southwest Research and Information Center celebrates 35 years; Wendell Duffield wants to know what happened to the U.S. Geological Survey
Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Allison Gerfin and Jodi Peterson May 29, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Carmella Hensyel joins HCN; Research Fund acknowledgements; visitor; former interns hit the big time; Michelle Nijhuis wins journalism award; Jodi Peterson & the Late Show
Jodi Peterson May 15, 2006 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
Mining company allowed to dump waste into Alaskan lake; Colorado split-estate bill unravels; Arizona’s Oak Flat may become a copper mine
Jodi Peterson May 1, 2006 From the print edition
Dear friends
Katie Lee and other visitors; where do you get your news? farewell, Philip Hyde; notes from readers; missing pages in HCN?
Jodi Peterson May 1, 2006 From the print edition
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