Items by Jodi Peterson

Two weeks in the West
EPA stymies California’s attempt to cut tailpipe emissions; the West is growing but not sure where its next meal or drink of water will come from; increasing amounts of ammonium – and guns – in the parks; avalanche fatalities are up.
Sarah Gilman and Jodi Peterson Jan. 21, 2008 From the print edition
Dear friends
Welcome to baby Lily Jean Massart Isaacson; visitors.
Jodi Peterson Jan. 21, 2008 From the print edition
Dear friends
HCN Christmas Open House; visits from a pilot, a vulcanologist, and a group of Rotarians from India; remembering John Firor.
Jodi Peterson Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visitors from Colorado, California and England; HCN founder Tom Bell fondly remembers Anne Turner, the first intern; corrections.
Jodi Peterson Dec. 10, 2007 From the print edition
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High Country News hosts a holiday open house; new faces in the office include Ryan Foster, Becca Frenier and Marissa McCune; former interns make good in the big world.
Jodi Peterson Nov. 26, 2007 From the print edition
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Editor John Mecklin to step down, Jonathan Thompson to step up; visitors; clarification on Rebecca Solnit interview.
Paul Larmer and Jodi Peterson Nov. 12, 2007 From the print edition
Fall reading
A list of the most intriguing current books by Western authors or on Western subjects.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
No frigate like a book
This special issue focuses on books and essays that help us understand the complex, chaotic West.
Jodi Peterson Opinion Oct. 29, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visits from a forester, a farmer, a family and more; clarification and corrections.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
Underground movement
In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to fight a proposal for uranium mining.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
New HCN employees include Online Editor Marty Durlin and Associate Publisher for Marketing Lisa Wolf Johnson; visitors.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Meet HCN in Salt Lake City; hasta la vista, Gretchen Nicholoff; visitors; Robert Funkhouser dies; correction.
Jodi Peterson and Paul Larmer Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Recent visitors to Paonia include bikers, big dogs, and two Brits who are walking across the country
Eve Rickert and Jodi Peterson Aug. 20, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Party with Mark Udall in Snowmass; visitors; a cone by any other name
Betsy Marston and Jodi Peterson Aug. 6, 2007 From the print edition
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Summer visitors, Cherry Days, and a clarification
Betsy Marston and Jodi Peterson July 23, 2007 From the print edition
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HCN skips an issue; HCN’s first-ever Paonia intern reunion; goat-packing and high-flying visitors
Betsy Marston, Jodi Peterson and Cindy Wehling June 25, 2007 From the print edition
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New HCN employees Shaun Gibson, Andrea Lecos and Angie Riley; a bee-youtiful verse; corrections
Jodi Peterson June 11, 2007 From the print edition
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New HCN interns Morgan Heim and Eve Rickert; visitors
Jodi Peterson May 28, 2007 From the print edition
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HCN board meeting, potluck and intern reunion in Paonia; visitors; postage increase unfair to small publications; farewell to activist Jim Jontz
Jodi Peterson May 14, 2007 From the print edition
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Visitors; April Fool’s in Aspen; Jason Fisher meets an old friend; farewell to Joyce Jorgensen; and corrections
Jodi Peterson April 30, 2007 From the print edition
An endangered Endangered Species Act?
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tries an end-run around the Endangered Species Act; a leaked draft would weaken the bedrock law by changing the regulations that implement it rather than the law itself.
Jodi Peterson April 16, 2007 From the print edition
Dear Friends
Life for interns after HCN; tell us what you think in our annual survey.
Jodi Peterson April 16, 2007 From the print edition
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Wilf Bruschke visits; singer John Winn writes a song inspired by Patricia Walsh’s column on green burial; Claire Anderson helps dogs in Mexico; clarification and corrections
Jodi Peterson April 2, 2007 From the print edition
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Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies; farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle
Jodi Peterson and Jonathan Thompson March 19, 2007 From the print edition
The end of ‘analysis paralysis’?
The Forest Service has overhauled its cumbersome forest-planning process, but many experts say the agency may have gone too far.
Jodi Peterson Feb. 19, 2007 From the print edition
Dear friends
Visitors; HCN in Title Nine catalog; clarification, corrections
Jodi Peterson Feb. 19, 2007 From the print edition
Dear Friends
New winter interns Erin Halcomb and Michelle Blank; HCN wins Utne press award; Crystal Zevon visits; corrections.
Michelle Blank, Erin Halcomb and Jodi Peterson Jan. 22, 2007 From the print edition
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HCN takes a holiday break; Betsy Marston and Jon Christensen on TV; HCN hosts discussion and film in San Francisco; a note from Steve Wilent of indy paper The Mountain Times; correction.
Jodi Peterson Dec. 25, 2006 From the print edition
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Rick Craig wins Nelson Algren Award; visitors; Bill Frank Jr. and John Echohawk win Wallace Stegner Award; HCN is looking for good writers
Jodi Peterson Dec. 11, 2006 From the print edition
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HCN’s Christmas open house; Michelle Nijhuis wins another award for climate change stories; visitors; Bill Burnham dies; Jodi Peterson back from sick leave
Jodi Peterson Nov. 27, 2006 From the print edition
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