HCN Holiday Open House; People’s
Choice Awards for HCN stories; thanks to Mark
Lellouch and Alison Davis; visitors
Items by Jodi Peterson
Thanks to readers for Research Fund gifts and the many
responses to HCN’s survey;
visitors
Luther Propst joins HCN board;
visitors; HCN wins awards; clarifications and
corrections
Books for Folks in New Orleans; fall interns Emma Brown
and Michelle Burkhart; clarifications and corrections
Forest Service accidentally cuts a designated botanical
area in southwest Oregon; California, New Mexico and Oregon sue
Bush administration over repeal of Roadless Rule; Utah won’t
let group test Great Salt Lake fish for mercury; BLM admits grazing
regs need more work
Gloria Flora speaks in Paonia; visitors; fun with salmon
and eagles in Spokane
Laura Paskus moves to Albuquerque to become HCN’s
Southwest editor; JoAnn Kalenak becomes our marketing and sales
coordinator; Kerri Brown is the new production and design
assistant; visitors; Santa Fe board meeting and potluck coming
up
Summer visitors; just seeing if you were paying
attention
Jeremy Parriott is working with friends to create a
320-acre extreme-sports playground near Moab, Utah, to give
four-wheelers and others a place to play off the public
lands
Summer visitors, just seeing if you were paying attention, and more.
Lots of summer visitors; our readers’ two
cents’ worth; read about Reid Rosenthal
Skipped issue; corrections and clarifications to Write-Off
on the Range and other stories; our mailbox runneth over
In the North Fruita Desert of western Colorado, the BLM
has come up with a plan to enable motorized and non-motorized
recreationists to share the outdoors
Some of the residents of the Moab, Utah, area are losing
patience with out-of-control off-highway recreation, and looking to
the BLM to bring things under control
Jason Nicholoff is HCN’s new
development associate; visitors; Jacob Smith elected to Golden,
Colo., city council; notes from readers; condolences on the deaths
of Dennis Machida and Mary Dann; and goodbye to Torrey,
Jodi’s dog
With the Land and Water Conservation Fund at a 10-year low
and Western politicians trying to sell off the public lands,
conserving open space requires the kind of creative solution that
helped saved Colorado’s Beaver Brook watershed
"Animal Planet" at the HCN office;
Leslie Glustrom vs. coal; correction; HCN Paonia potluck
Tragedy in Paonia; visitors; "Starting West" conference at
Stanford discusses frustration; clarification from BLM; Happy 35th
birthday, HCN
In Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers,
Canyons and Friends, Katie Lee takes readers on a
breathless boat ride through her exhilarating life
Boulder, Colo., is trying to figure out how to keep its
beloved parks and open space from being overused
In their latest anthology, Crazy Woman Creek, Linda
Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier and Nancy Curtis gather the authentic
voices of Western women of all kinds
A new documentary, Making Sense of Place:
Phoenix, the Urban Desert, uses the Arizona megalopolis
to show what happens when urban sprawl is unchecked
Mining claims, hardrock mining, public lands,
Environmental Working Group, Western Mining Action Project, Roger
Flynn, National Mining Association, Luke Popovich
The "perpetual treatment" trust fund requirement faces its
first challenge in Nevada, where the mining industry and the EPA
disagree over how much money will be needed to treat long-lasting
pollution at the Phoenix mine
Chip Ward’s new book, Hope’s Horizon:
Three Visions for Healing the American Land, takes a
clear-eyed, optimistic look at the nation’s ecological
problems
The Forest Service plans to rein in cross-country travel
by off-road vehicles, but enforcing new rules may prove next to
impossible
BLM archaeologist Blaine Miller says that a slew of new
oil and gas projects could harm spectacular Indian rock art and
ruins in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon
New reports from the United States Commission on Ocean
Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission agree that America’s
oceans are over-fished, polluted, and in desperate need of new
management policies
The American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation
seeks to return Indian sacred objects to the people who created
them
Chromium 6 is moving from the California desert toward the
Colorado River, and officials fear it might contaminate the
drinking water supply of 20 million people
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