As the small, conservative towns bordering Utah's new
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument begin to adapt to the
monument they never wanted, a new vision for what gateway
communities and preserved areas might be begins to slowly
emerge.
Magazine

April 14, 1997
As the small, conservative towns bordering Utah's new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument begin to adapt to the monument they never wanted, a new vision for what gateway communities and preserved areas might be begins to slowly emerge.
Feature
California's new Mojave National Preserve, touted as "a
park for the 21st century," seeks to remain primitive and to avoid
alienating the small communities in and around the
preserve.
Sidebar
Garfield County Commissioner Louise Liston in her own
words on her fight against the monument and her struggle to
preserve what she sees as important in the region.
Roger Holland, a Kanab town councilman, in his own words
on why he hates the new national monument.
Gerry Rankin, mayor of Big Water, Utah, in her own words
describes her town's high hopes for Andalex's mine, but says she is
willing to work with the new situation the new monument is
bringing.
Jerry Freeman, owner of the tiny town of Nipton, Calif.,
in his own words on why he thinks the preserve will be a good - and
profitable - thing.
Rancher Rob Blair in his own words on why he intends to
keep raising cattle on the Mojave Preserve.
Uncommon Westerners
An elegy for Yellowstone's "geyser guy," Rick Hutchinson,
profiles a geologist who loved the park so deeply that his friends
still feel his spirit there.
Book Reviews
A conference, To Cherish and Renew: Restoring Western
Ecosystems and Communities, in Salt Lake City, Utah, April
17-19.
The 19th Desert Conference, at Oregon's Malheur Field
Station, April 24-27.
A new comic book called "Tribal Force" wants to offer
positive role models as well as entertainment to young Native
Americans.
A film called "The Burning Barrel," intended for PBS,
offers a nostalgic portrait of a South Dakota childhood and a grim
view of the present.
A handbook called "Rebirth of the Small Family Farm," by
Bob and Bonnie Gregson, offers advice for would-be organic
farmers.
"Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West"
conference to be put on by the Center of the American West at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, May 1-2.
A report titled "The Information Dirt Road" says that
rural areas such as western Colorado are being shortchanged by the
deregulation of telecommunications.
Heard Around the West
Science fair project on condoms; nudists worry about
neighbors in Ariz.; Moab's concern about teens on slickrock;
"genital broke" horse; pet psychic fair in Scottsdale, Ariz.;
Yellowstone bison slaughter; ADC helps rich folks in N.M.; workout
hints.
Dear Friends
Plaudits for Frank and Deborah Popper; visitors,
corrections, and Rob Pudim's "consensus cartoon" comes
home.
News
The Supreme Court rules that people can use the Endangered
Species Act to sue the feds for protecting species too much, as
enviros use it to sue for protecting species too little - and those
on both sides seem pleased by the changes.
A federal judge orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
to list four Southwestern species as endangered and to set aside
habitat for them and two others already listed.
A federal judge orders cattle off Oregon's Donner und
Blitzen River, saying the BLM has failed to protect 75 miles of the
wild and scenic river.
Utah politicians, angry at actor Robert Redford's support
of the controversial new Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument, pass a resolution to turn Redford's Sundance resort into
a wilderness.
Scientists say the eight-legged frogs showing up in
western Oregon are probably victims of a trematode
parasite.
Following complaints, the BLM withdraws new "plain
English" regulations on the agency's law-enforcement
authority.
Some want to open the last 12 unroaded miles of Oregon's
Hells Canyon western rim to vehicles.
A survey of soft money focuses on Colorado billionaire
Philip Anschutz and his generosity to the Republican
party.
California scientists say air pollution from the San
Joaquin Valley is killing thousands of trees in the Sierra
Nevadas.
People burning old industrial-gauge wire in the Utah
desert to get at the raw copper left to sell are breaking the law
and creating a serious health hazard, BLM officials warn.
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