Magazine
Chaos comes to Costilla County

June 9, 1997

Costilla County, Colorado's attempts to rein in logging and gain access to the Taylor Ranch their Hispanic forebears used as a commons are frustrated by a wave of mostly Anglo newcomers who want no part of any planning regulations.

Feature

Chaos comes to Costilla County
Costilla County, Colorado's attempts to rein in logging and gain access to the Taylor Ranch their Hispanic forebears used as a commons are frustrated by a wave of mostly Anglo newcomers who want no part of any planning regulations.
Peter Mcbride June 9, 1997 From the print edition
The Cowboy State gets shook up by 100,000 hogs
Local activists in Wheatland, Wyo., band together to fight an industrial hog farm that would produce 100,000 pigs a year - and a lot of unpleasant products.
Sarah Dry June 9, 1997 From the print edition

Sidebar

'I saved Jack Taylor's life'
In his own words, San Luis mayor and saloon-owner Joe Espinoza talks about the community's problems with the Taylor Ranch owners.
Peter Mcbride June 9, 1997 From the print edition
The last undiscovered place in Colorado
Developer Evan Melby in his own words talks about his plans for building a subdivision in Costilla County.
Peter Mcbride June 9, 1997 From the print edition
The West's lax rules draw hog factories
Factory hog farms that met resistance in the East and Midwest are moving West, drawn by lax regulations.
Sarah Dry June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Hogs and a small town co-exist
A smaller hog farm in Albin, Wyo., is more or less welcome in the community, because the owner is local.
Sarah Dry June 9, 1997 From the print edition

Essays

Lessons from a rampaging river
The flood and fire that hit Grand Forks, N.D., when the Red River rose, raise a hard question: Why must communities face catastrophe before people come together as a "we"?
Asta Bowen Essay June 9, 1997 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Who'll run Hanford Reach?
Washington Sen. Patty Murray wants to keep the free-flowing, undammed Hanford Reach - the last stretch of the Columbia - free-flowing under federal management.
Staff June 9, 1997 From the print edition
The road to no sprawl
Colorado Commons and its new quarterly of the same name seek to be a voice for sane, environmentally sound planning in the state.
Staff June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Threatened Rivers
Five of the 10 most endangered rivers are in the West, according to American Rivers' annual report.
Staff June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Solstice Institute
The nonprofit Solstice Institute holds a first-day-of-summer celebration June 21 in Boulder, Colo.
Staff June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Summer Wilderness Conference
A double celebration, Wilderness Watch's Summer Wilderness Conference and the annual gathering of the Association of Literature and the Environment converge on Missoula, Mont., July 17-20.
Staff June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Rising From Tradition
The work of nine Native American artists from Idaho, Oregon and Washington will be on display at the High Desert Museum, titled "Rising From Tradition: Contemporary Native Art from the Plateau."
Staff June 9, 1997 From the print edition
How the West was destroyed
"The Lochsa Story: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains" by Bud Moore is reviewed.
John Mccarthy June 9, 1997 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
True story of balloon-powered lawn chair; owning Redstone Castle not cheap; illegal pool-building in Aspen; anti-hunting T-shirts; prairie dog hunting B&B; cyberspace riddles; Frosty the freezer dog; Wash.'s road or religious sign; Chenoweth's baloney.
Betsy Marston June 9, 1997 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Please send correct addresses; thank you, Erwin and Peggy Bauer, for donating photos; Anne and George Norris and deer in the dinette in Somerset; in other news, and visitors.
Ed Marston June 9, 1997 From the print edition

News

The system cuts a new chief down to size
New Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck and his plans for agency reform face slow going on a rough road filled with obstacles.
Emily Miller June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Dear Michael Dombeck
Biologists and botanists from 30 different forests have written a letter to new Chief Michael Dombeck, saying the agency's ability to achieve its conservation goals is seriously hampered by budget cuts.
Emily Miller June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Sierra Club Foundation vs. Ray Graham III: the case that won't die
Ray Graham's lawsuit against the Sierra Club Foundation, over money he donated that was never used to buy grazing land in New Mexico for Hispanic shepherds, faces a third fight in San Francisco.
Paul Larmer June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Rumble in the watershed
A watershed council, formed to manage Idaho's South Fork of the Snake River, is in trouble because it refused to allow environmentalists to be represented in the group.
Jamie Murray June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Tell it to the judge
Ninety-five species of Southwestern wildlife, proposed over a year ago for listing as endangered, still have not been evaluated.
Emily Miller June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Forester retreats on grazing rules
Sawtooth National Forest Supervisor Bill LeVere, under pressure from Idaho's congressional delegation, withdraws his controversial grazing rules.
Shea Andersen June 9, 1997 From the print edition
The roads less funded
A bill before Congress would end funding for new logging roads in national forests.
Emily Miller June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Condors soar once more over the Southwest
Fifteen California condors have been released in Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs, 70 years after the last one had been seen in the region.
Greg Hanscom June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Will the bison killing resume next winter?
After half of Yellowstone's bison were slaughtered in Montana last winter over fears of brucellosis disease, the debate remains unresolved and the killing could easily continue next year.
Todd Wilkinson June 9, 1997 From the print edition
The slaughter of bison reopens old wounds
Rosalie Little Thunder was arrested for physically confronting the bison slaughter outside Yellowstone, while other Native Americans, equally concerned, propose to re-establish bison herds on reservation land, using otherwise doomed animals.
Patricia Walsh June 9, 1997 From the print edition

Letters

Two tales of a single county
Thomas Michael Power June 9, 1990 From the print edition
Paul Larmer responds
Paul Larmer June 9, 1997 From the print edition
This land is our land
Joan Benner June 9, 1997 From the print edition
Wanted: More road on the rim
George M. Burns June 9, 1997 From the print edition
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