Taxidermist John Stevenson discovers the art and craft of
taxidermy.
Items by Ray Ring
Hunting in the West faces public relations problems as
well as questions about ethical and biological issues.
The Hispanic livestock cooperative, Ganados del Valle,
wins a lawsuit against the Sierra Club Foundation in New Mexico's
Chama Valley.
The story of whirling disease in Western trout is a story
of human "improvement on nature" gone wrong.
"Biotic Communities, Southwestern United States and
Northwestern Mexico" is reviewed.
Rising fares at Denver International Airport are changing
the patterns of air travel around the West, as some airlines pull
out and passengers seek other airports.
Rodeo safety vests, buffalo in bar, intergalactic tourism,
ladies' left-arm wrestling, Helen Chenoweth's staff problems,
computer organizing for wilderness, killer bees.
Utah's environmental groups sound a nationwide alarm to
stop a Utah wilderness bill they describe as
"disastrous."
National Park Service's "Park "N' Drive Competition," RVs
outnumber tents 3 to 1, Yellowstone's roadkill, drug-users in the
park.
Want ads for sheepherders, straw bale houses on the Navajo
Reservation, women in the Forest Service, betting on the planet's
future, New Era philanthropy, seminars on "how to stay
calm."
Utah exempts peace pipes; Arizona tribe wants to protect
air; new Navajo Pres. Hale asks for pardon for Peter MacDonald;
eating buffalo in Ronan, Mont.; wise-use newsletter, "The Courier';
Democrats in Oregon's Wallowa County.
In a few resorts, beleagured ski workers are turning to
unions for help.
J. Francis Stafford, the Archbishop of Denver, makes
socioeconomic justice and worker's problems in ski country a
priority.
Creating low-cost housing in ski country involves
overcoming a variety of hurdles.
Pedro Lopez and other workers who live in trailers near
the Beaver Creek resort will have to move because the industry is
buying the trailer park's land.
Ski workers Jeremy Bernier and Jim Noland sleep in a van
in the maintenance room of a parking garage because they can't
afford housing in Vail.
Single mother Alma Perez has to start her day at 5:30 am
to commute from Leadville to her ski industry job in
Vail.
Former ski bum Greg Smith now juggles three jobs to make
ends meet.
Ski resorts begin to resemble the Third World as Africans
and others come to take low-paying service jobs, but have trouble
finding housing.
Public ignores proposed coal-bed methane project while
commenting loudly on cross-country race in Utah.
Retired engineers Paul Earle and Jim Buck are two of DIA's
most persistent critics.
The history of Denver International Airport, like that of
other Western megaprojects, is the history of a megamess.
Denver International Airport may become a giant
boondoggle.
The uncontrolled growth of Western states makes planning
essential.
Deciding how to handle a forest fire is
difficult.
The deaths of two hikers in Utah raise legal and ethical
questions about risk and responsibility.
State land management reforms in Utah raise money for
schools.
Conservationists discover state lands and bid against
ranchers to lease them.
A head-on. From the skid marks it looked like the Camaro had been cutting the inside of the curve, way over the double-yellow centerline ...
When it comes to weirdness in the natural world, the tumbleweed has to be right up there. This bit of freaky biology run amok has inspired everything from sport to mythology to gourmet cooking. So maybe it's fitting that the tumbleweed has come to symbolize the American West.
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