Good-bye, for a while High Country News takes its semi-annual vacation, skipping the July 11 issue. It will return with the July 25 issue. The idea is to give readers a chance to catch up on the issues that have been piling up in bathrooms and on espresso tables. Pun-ishing address change There is nothing […]
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Posted inJune 13, 1994: A doomed species?
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1984 Redux A decade late, High Country News has caught up to George Orwell’s 1984. With the help of a grant from the Surdna Foundation, a team here has begun to create an electronic index and archive of back issues. Almost certainly we will introduce new errors as we transfer information from print to electrical […]
Posted inMay 30, 1994: Can mining come clean?
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Good news Congratulations to former HCN intern Zaz Hollander, who was hired recently by the Daily Astorian. Zaz will cover environmental issues on the Oregon coast. Congratulations as well to HCN’s Great Basin editor, Jon Christensen. His lead story in the Aug. 9, 1993, issue of HCN on the Diamond Springs Ranch in Nevada headlined, […]
Posted inMay 16, 1994: Babbitt is trying to nationalize the BLM
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Back from Buzzworm Lisa Jones recently moved her base of operations from one side of Paonia’s Grand Avenue to the other to start work as a researcher and writer on High Country News’ land grant university project. A staff writer at HCN in 1990 and 1991, Lisa has spent most of the last three years […]
Posted inMay 2, 1994: A struggle for the last grass
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Odds and ends The Grand Canyon Community Library writes to say: “Our library burned to the ground on March 18. We are in dire need of donations if anyone has books they no longer need.” The library can be reached at P.O. Box 518, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023-0518. Subscribers Rick and Lindsay Silverman and son […]
Posted inApril 18, 1994: The salmon win one
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Odds and ends Diane Sylvain, who sends checks to HCN’s writers, artists and photographers, calls them mystery free-lancers: people whose work we’ve just used, but for whom we no longer have correct addresses. At the moment, we’re trying to reach William L. Payne, Will C. Wright, Roger Holcomb, Alan McKnight, Roxann Moore, Phillip Renault and […]
Posted inApril 4, 1994: Who speaks for the Colorado Plateau?
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We want advice If all goes well, subscribers should soon receive the annual High Country News survey. The paper’s surveys don’t ask what kind of car you drive, or your annual income, or where you vacation. But we do ask questions to guide us in putting out the newspaper. And if you haven’t responded to […]
Posted inMarch 21, 1994: On the borderline
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Locals win awards Two women from Paonia travelled to Austin, Texas, on March 5 to receive awards from the National Wildlife Federation at its annual banquet. Betsy Marston, the editor of High Country News, accepted the communications award – a statue of a whooping crane – on behalf of the paper. Theo Colborn, who was […]
Posted inMarch 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
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Commuting hell For many people in this town of 1,400, commuting to work means a hike, a bicycle ride or short trip by pickup. But for Chris Manning, who works in the Aspen post office, going to work means traveling over McClure Pass, a two-hour slog each way. Tough, but worth it for Manning and […]
Posted inFebruary 21, 1994: Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado
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Odds and ends HCN couldn’t live without the U.S. Postal Service, but at times we wonder if we can live with it. On Dec. 26, 1993, we mailed notes, via Third Class mail, to readers in Boulder, 250 miles away, inviting them to the Jan. 21 potluck. Bill Doud of Boulder tells us that his […]
Posted inFebruary 7, 1994: Can she save ecosystems?
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Spirited in Boulder Board members of the High Country Foundation from around the West braved clear skies and balmy January weather to gather in Boulder, Colo., for the group’s annual budget meeting. Eleven out of 16 board members made it to Boulder, and 10 made it to the all-day meeting on Jan. 15. (Board president […]
Posted inJanuary 24, 1994: Turmoil on the range
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How Gifford Pinchot got to be chief In his autobiography, Breaking New Ground, Pinchot writes on page 136 (Island Press edition, 1987) of his decision to accept the position of chief: “But the position of chief of the Forestry Division was under the classified civil service. Before I could hold it, I had to pass […]
Posted inSeptember 5, 1994: Can planning rein in a stampede?
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End of summer visitors Matt Huston and Sherry Smith of Seattle visited while on their way from a Telluride wedding to the Maroon Bells Wilderness. Unfortunately, it was a Sunday, so we got only a note: “It was good to see you weren’t working and that you take days off.” Jack Laughlin, an engineer who […]