David Brower wants to empty Lake Powell; trail builder
Gudy Gaskill visits.
Items by Ed Marston
Post election musings by a Western Democrat consider why
Republicans won so easily and what new strategies environmentalists
need to learn.
Dogs vs. grizzlies in Glacier N.P.; deer in gardens;
squirrel steals keys; growth in Colo., and FDR on trial in school;
Imnaha, Ore., holds Bear & Rattlesnake Feed; "Floating
Preference" want ad; Enid Greene plans book; boom & bust with
Smokey Bear.
What happened at elections, Phyllis Becktell leaves HCN,
something familiar, communications.
In Durango, Colo., passions about A-LP still run high -
with former Mayor Jeff Morrissey cited by police for harassing two
anti-A-LP women.
Colorado's Animas-La Plata project - the last of the big
BuRec projects, and the most mired in controvery - is tackled by
opponents and proponents who seek consensus.
Longtime HCN reader Ann Phillips is an educational
consultant turned archaeologist.
"Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the
American Counterculture" by Lois Palken Rudnick is
reviewed.
Rebuilt hwy floods Murray, Idaho; canned salmon endangered
by consumers; faithful rats; dark side of Grand Junction, Colo.;
wolves harass skiers in Washington; Rep. Charles Taylor loses wager
on logging; religiously segregated Colorado cemetery.
HCN board meeting in Driggs, Idaho; Writers on the Range
at HCN; fall visitors; research fund drive; correction.
Mining and sea-captaining in Vail; Boy Scouts stone
California bear; mountain lions chase mountain bikers and domestic
pets; illegal immigrants disrespectful of horse trailer; park
volunteers; tourist railroad billed for forest fire.
The Cody, Wyo., "Boobyprise"; Andy Kerr a controversial
columnist for Oregon's "Wallowa Chieftain"; Immigration raids
disrupt Jackson, Wyo., tourist season; unexpected balloon adventure
in Vail, Colo.; grizzly that mauled a man in Glacier Nat'l
Park.
Bikers invade Steamboat Springs, Vail Ski Area expansion,
unusual parade in Casper, Wyo., Forest Service bills campers for
fire in N.M., stupid tourist remarks, Gov. Gary Johnson thinks
there are wolves in N.M., fun things to do at Western Planners
Conf.
The firing of Colorado River Water Conservation District
secretary-engineer Rolly Fischer after 28 years marks the end of a
profligate era.
Paonia's Cherry Days festival, summer visitors,
corrections, and Mollie Beattie, U.S. Fish & Wildlife head,
dies of cancer at age 49, also obituary for Harley Greiman by Ed
Marston.
What seems on the surface to be a successful consensus
effort to restore grizzlies to central Idaho and western Montana
has provoked a bitter split among Northern Rockies
environmentalists many of whom believe the plan will harm bears
rather than help.
Bibliography
Sid Goodloe, in his own words, discusses how to be a good
steward of the land while making a living at ranching.
Author and fire historian Stephen Pyne talks about the
role of fire in the Southwestern landscape.
Western university biologists and botanists dispute
Goodloe's theories - from several viewpoints.

Rancher Sid Goodloe battles pinon-juniper and uses a
variety of controversial methods to restore his ranchland in New
Mexico.
The Media and Democracy Conference in San Francisco showed
alternative media as too mired in the "60s and in political
correctness to thoughtfully address realities of the
"90s.
John Gardner represents a new breed of agricultural
"specialized generalists" who want to help Dakota farmers reclaim
the food system.
Corrections, it's easy to run HCN, visitors, remembering
James Gould Bradley, Colorado conferences.
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.
Colorado Springs board meeting, long-range planning, index
and superindex, Tony Davis wins award, Adam Duerk recovers from
fall.
Pizza-eating wolf, Crow Nation loses rights to Big Horn
Nat'l Forest, football in Lyman, Wyo., retirement benefits for Alan
Simpson and Pat Schroeder, Linda Hasselstrom overhears conversation
about Jackson and Wyoming, taxi drivers at DIA.
In his own words, an anonymous retired East Coast
businessman explains his disillusionment with the West and his
decision not to buy property there.
Small town getting too big; four-wheel drive dangers;
economic whimpers from Los Alamos; political wackiness in the NW;
carting salmon around Elk Creek Dam; thrifty farmers; Navajo
language wins wars; snakes in Navajo schools.
The Old West and the New West need to work together in
trying to preserve the far-from-pristine West that still
remains.
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