A Montana ski resort originally created by newsman Chet
Huntley and intended to be a model of free-market, unconstrained
development, is today a morass of lawsuits, environmental
degradation and inefficiency.
Magazine
March 31, 1997
A Montana ski resort originally created by newsman Chet Huntley and intended to be a model of free-market, unconstrained development, is today a morass of lawsuits, environmental degradation and inefficiency.
Feature
Sidebar
Former Big Sky ski patrolman J.C. Knaub in his own words
describes the difficulties faced in trying to bring neighborhood
parks and trails to Big Sky.
Big Sky founding father and famous TV newsman Chet Huntley
started the resort but did not live to see what he
created.
A computerized key-pad locked road in Big Sky epitomizes a
ski resort where the "haves" are carefully kept from the
trespassing "have nots."
Seven ski resorts ring Yellowstone National Park and add
to the pressure on a fragile ecosystem.
The preferential treatment Big Sky gives the pro-resort
Lone Peak Lookout over the independent Big Sky Bugle is an ironic
legacy for a hard-hitting journalist like Chet Huntley to
leave.
Heard Around the West
Help wanted in Vail; snowboarders are different; "state
snake" loses in Idaho; cattle outnumber humans in Mont.; in Utah
horse accidents kill people; dog owners miffed; dog argues against
political slander; interesting road signs; Helen Chenoweth on
guns
Dear Friends
Small-town post offices, spring visitors, Henrietta Hay
visits, HCN overwhelmed by job applicants.
News
The International Sonoran Desert Alliance hopes, with the
cooperation of the U.S. and Mexican governments, to ease some of
the problems - many environmental - that tightened border security
is causing.
A thousand resistant Navajos have been ordered to vacate
Hopi land by April 1, in an attempt to finally resolve a land
dispute between the two tribes that has caused years of anguish and
anger.
The BLM is bracing itself for the expected arrival of a
million visitors who plan to visit Wyoming's portion of the
150-year-old Mormon Pioneer Trail this spring and summer.
The federal Aviation Administration bows to the protests
of air tour operators, and delays setting up new flight-free zones
over Grand Canyon until next year.
Carl Alleman wants to develop his eight mining claims in
Oregon's Kalmiopsis Wilderness to create a resort he says will
cater to the handicapped.
The Quincy Library Group, a much-praised, ground-breaking
consensus group in Plumas County, Calif., is now being attacked by
environmentalists as its forest management plan reaches the
Legislature.
The endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, which has
unexpectedly been found near Tucson, may help to stop or slow the
city's explosive sprawling growth.
Biologist Alan Clark believes that the only way to help
the declining population of the endangered Columbia white-tailed
deer is to begin to kill coyotes on the Washington wildlife refuge
the deer live on.
The relatives of four people killed in a landslide in
Douglas County, Ore., last November are suing two logging companies
for clearcutting the hills above the victims' home and contributing
to the landslide.
Opinion
High Country Blues, an April Fool's parody, demonstrates
that staff is definitely losing its mind and is probably more than
a few AUMs short of a grazing allotment, as we say out here in the
West.
At the Western States Coalition Summit VII in Salt Lake
City, cracks in the wise-use movement are revealed as the small
grassroots groups and some founding members such as Chuck Cushman
fear People for the West has grown too big and
bureaucratic.
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