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.
Magazine
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
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.
Sidebar
In his own words, San Luis mayor and saloon-owner Joe
Espinoza talks about the community's problems with the Taylor Ranch
owners.
Developer Evan Melby in his own words talks about his
plans for building a subdivision in Costilla County.
Factory hog farms that met resistance in the East and
Midwest are moving West, drawn by lax regulations.
A smaller hog farm in Albin, Wyo., is more or less welcome
in the community, because the owner is local.
Essays
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"?
Book Reviews
Washington Sen. Patty Murray wants to keep the
free-flowing, undammed Hanford Reach - the last stretch of the
Columbia - free-flowing under federal management.
Colorado Commons and its new quarterly of the same name
seek to be a voice for sane, environmentally sound planning in the
state.
Five of the 10 most endangered rivers are in the West,
according to American Rivers' annual report.
The nonprofit Solstice Institute holds a
first-day-of-summer celebration June 21 in Boulder, Colo.
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.
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."
"The Lochsa Story: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot
Mountains" by Bud Moore is reviewed.
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.
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.
News
New Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck and his plans for
agency reform face slow going on a rough road filled with
obstacles.
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.
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.
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.
Ninety-five species of Southwestern wildlife, proposed
over a year ago for listing as endangered, still have not been
evaluated.
Sawtooth National Forest Supervisor Bill LeVere, under
pressure from Idaho's congressional delegation, withdraws his
controversial grazing rules.
A bill before Congress would end funding for new logging
roads in national forests.
Fifteen California condors have been released in Arizona's
Vermillion Cliffs, 70 years after the last one had been seen in the
region.
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.
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.
Letters
- Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado
- Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s Rio Grande?
- Indigenous fishers on the Columbia River confront new challenges
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reintroduces bighorn sheep on tribal lands
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