John Krist thinks it’s high time to raise entry fees
for U.S. national parks.
Items by John Krist
John Krist says the movie Apocalypto, about the decline of
the Maya in central America, has lessons for today
In Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in
the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, mountain
climber and physicist Mark Bowen follows researchers who are
finding clues to climate change in high-altitude tropical
glaciers
The writer takes a river trip and almost pushes a fellow
passenger overboard
The writer looks at the mounting evidence on global
warming
The writer says selling public land is no way to help
rural communities
Werner Herzog’s new documentary, Grizzly
Man, takes a thoughtful look at the life and death of
Timothy Treadwell, an amateur bear biologist who was killed and
eaten by an Alaskan grizzly
The writer calls the documentary "Grizzly Man" a
fascinating exploration of one man’s doomed love for
bears
The writer goes camping and finds topsy turvy
weather
The writer looks at buildings sliding down a hill and
says, 'No more.'
The writer listens to Western governors complain about the
Endangered Species Act
John Krist urges the Forest Service to retire Smokey Bear
and his "Only you…" advice.
The writer explores newly revealed canyons as drought
dries up parts of Lake Powell
The writer says San Francisco has been milking a cash cow
from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir inside Yosemite National
Park
The writer says hatchery salmon are to wild salmon as
feedlot steers are to free-roaming bison
The writer criticizes the Forest Service for selling a
logging plan in California with Montana photos
The writer notes recent fatalities in the frigid
backcountry, but says risk is part of the game
John Krist tells why lions find us appetizing
John Krist says California is forced to build where fires
like to burn
John Krist tells about the movement in California to take
down a dam and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley near Yosemite
John Krist sees parallels today with the prejudice that
forced Japanese Americans into camps during World War II.
John Krist writes an appreciation of the late David
Lavender, an unsentimental historian of the West
John Krist admires photographer Ansel Adams, though his
photos only reveal part of a story
None of the reporters covering the prospect of drilling in
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have gotten the
numbers right on how much oil might actually be there
To many people who care about the West's publicly owned
lands, the Nov. 5 election results fell somewhere between
disastrous and catastrophic.
California anvironmentalists are pleased that the Bureau
of Reclamation has given up on completing the planned Auburn Dam
for the Middle Fork of the American River.
An Alaska company's much-mocked plan to haul bags of water
400 miles along the California coast is really no crazier than the
things California has come up with in its search for
water.
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