The 1.7 million acres at the new Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument contain a wide variety of landscapes, life zones
and archaeological treasures.
Items by Lisa Jones
Overheard cafe conversations in North Dakota; "Amazing
Grace" radio in South Dakota; sheep's "beautiful buttocks" gone;
fish image problems; Arizona speeding excuses; Idaho
UFOs.
Rancher Quentin Hulse, in his own words, remembers
previous Southwestern droughts.
Rancher Jim Winder, in his own words, about the art of
ranching during severe drought.
The Southwest's severe drought takes a toll on the
ranchers of New Mexico's Gila National Forest.
Forest Service Range Conservationist Chuck Oliver is
physically assaulted when he tries to attend a meeting in Eagle,
Ariz., between public-lands ranchers and wise-use attorney Karen
Budd-Falen.
High Country Shopper, Rocky Mountain News scorns rural
Colorado cows, low wages for Wyoming women, husband wife team of
wilderness rangers needs money in Montana, quips from Myles
Rademan, New York Times' Freemen blooper.
Reserve, N.M., Dr. Mark Unverzagt, in his own words, on
the often overlooked middle ground in Catron County.
Psychologist Melinda Garcia, in her own words, on working
with people in Catron County's "war zone."
Forest Service District Ranger Mike Gardner, in his own
words, on dealing with the tensions in Catron County.
An anonymous Catron County businessperson, in his words,
on the tensions between factions in the county.
Catron County Attorney Jim Catron, in his own words, on
the "rural Western resistance to the federal empire."
Strange bedfellows in the West: Wal-Mart and Main Street,
sheep and range restoration, javelinas in Washington state,
cartoonist John Callahan runs for Oregon state Legislature, Cheetos
in space, cowboys and California.
Sex at the prom, Abstinence Week, Utah's baby boom,
complaints in a Silver City, N.M., lumberyard about having to take
off your gun at the door, tourists hurry through Utah, linger in
Wyoming, and in South Dakota folks are nice to cows.
Mediator Gerald Mueller of Missoula, Mont., names
ingredients necessary for successful consensus groups.
Consensus-building groups seek to find common ground in
the land.
Montana weirdness, Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo and
nepotism, Utah bans gay groups in schools, livestock fight back in
Colorado, rattlesnakes in Vail, and Idaho paints over
swastikas.
Praying for cold weather, Jesus and fishing permits, wild
horse contraceptives, reservoirs help earth rotate, Bigfoot on
endangered species list, Northwesterners for more fish use, wrong
fish for logo.
Sen. Hatfield and sausages, hunting in a bra, East bunny
"scramble" in N.M., Oliver Stone opposing buffalo hunting in N.M.,
Carlsbad Caverns a world heritage site, John Talbott fished without
a license but still is on Wyoming payroll.
Lost in the West, including Sacajawea, Bureau of Indian
Affairs money; extra acres of public land appearing; busted for
nude sunbathing in Spokane; computer sculpture courtesy of DIA;
Helen Chenoweth on new species; Columbia Falls finally gets
waterfall.
In his own words, extension agent Edmund Gomez describes
how the Rural Agriculture Improvement Project seeks to help New
Mexico's poor farmers.
Description of what the West's extension agents
do.
In a changing West, the land-grant universities'
cooperative extension programs must rethink their
mission.
Poodle-free Montana, militias, peyote bust, the spiritual
center of the universe.
Navajo football broadcast, George Nethercutt not a good
listener, fish visitors comment, Wanaleiya resort in Nevada, Iowa
romance, cold weather in the Dakotas, big and little
DIAs.
New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force issues a
press release saying the Diamond Bar allotment is not overgrazed,
and environmentalists and scientist critics cry
"pseudoscience."
Nevada pigeon poop, an empty Arches National Park,
impersonating game wardens, Ben Campbell upset by female
impersonator, militia forms PAC, Helen Chenoweth on grizzly bear
recovery, hunting escaped cows, DIA's traffic control
woes.
Jay O'Laughlin, director of the University of Idaho's
Policy Analysis Group, denies the charges of industry bias leveled
against his group.
The University of Idaho's Art Partridge believes that the
forest health crisis is a fraud.
University of Idaho scientists Art Partridge and Jay
O'Laughlin bring opposite viewpoints to the question of forest
health.
- Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs
- Can Hatch green chiles outlast the climate crisis?
- Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
- Alaska Native villages band together to keep the Yukon River’s wild salmon afloat
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
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