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While the New West booms, Wyoming mines, drills ... and languishes

July 7, 1997

The state of Wyoming remains stuck in the Old West and trapped by its myths and boom-and-bust cycles, while outside its boundaries the New West comes to life.

Feature

While the New West booms, Wyoming mines, drills ... and languishes
The state of Wyoming remains stuck in the Old West and trapped by its myths and boom-and-bust cycles, while outside its boundaries the New West comes to life.
Paul Krza July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Sensory deprivation on the High Plains
An Appalachian transplant seeks community in Wyoming coal towns Gillette and Wright.
Jeffery Smith July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Taxing the wrong side of the tracks
Wyoming's peculiar tax system means that the poorest families help carry the wealthier mineral industries.
Hugh Jackson July 7, 1997 From the print edition

Sidebar

Wyoming is "open for business"
A timeline demonstrates the ebb and flow of Wyoming's promotional schemes and dreams for development.
Paul Krza July 7, 1997 From the print edition
A Wyoming coal town comes of age
The coal mining town of Wright, Wyo., braces for another boom.
Paul Krza July 7, 1997 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Water Partnerships
"Water Partnerships: Can Competing Users Cooperate to Manage a Vital Resource ... and Live Happily Ever After?" takes place July 30-Aug. 1 in Gunnison, Colo.
Staff July 7, 1997 From the print edition
The Bear Essential
The free magazine, "The Bear Essential," is holding its first annual Edward Abbey short fiction contest, deadline Sept. 2.
Staff July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest
The nonprofit Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest, founded five months ago by Boulder, Colo., lawyer Randall Weiner, has already made headlines.
Staff July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
The government's planning team for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is seeking ideas.
Staff July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Bolting blues
The Access Fund, a Boulder, Colo.-based rock climbers' group, seeks to keep climbing unrestricted on public lands.
Alan Schussman July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Not for aggies only
Oregon's new magazine, "Capital Press," covers agricultural issues in the Northwest.
Ed Marston July 7, 1997 From the print edition
No parking in the parks
"Consumer Reports" rates its subscribers' experiences in American national parks and finds many complaints about parking, bad roads and overcrowding.
Staff July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Riches and Regrets
Patricia Stokowski's book, "Riches and Regrets: Betting on Gambling in Two Colorado Mountain Towns," explores how casino gambling brought money but destroyed community in Central City, Colo., and Black Hawk, Colo.
Ed Quillen July 7, 1997 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Las Vegas chutzpah; a cemetery scholar's grave observations; crazy snowboarding and dangerous driving; football as blood sport in Albuquerque; angler rumps and porta-potties in Idaho; heartening news in Idaho and Washington.
Betsy Marston July 7, 1997 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Summer skipped issue; in memory of Marge Higley; Paul Larmer to direct Writers on the Range; share reading lists or books with a Denver community center; connecting to the West.
Ed Marston July 7, 1997 From the print edition

News

Wolf pups proliferate
Yellowstone's reintroduced wolves are thriving - and reproducing - in the park.
Jamie Murray July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Republican riders toppled
Republicans in Congress give up on extra riders - including some anti-environmental riders - that were bogging down the flood-relief bill.
Greg Hanscom July 7, 1997 From the print edition
In Oregon, tension over coho and trees
In Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest, environmentalists protest the China Left timber sale, saying logging will harm endangered coho salmon.
Peter Chilson July 7, 1997 From the print edition
A lot is at stake in Supreme Court case
Bernardine Suitum, 80, sues Tahoe Regional Planning Agency over her desire to develop a lot she owns in Incline Village, Nev.
Jon Christensen July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Petroglyphs and pavement collide
N.M. Sen. Pete Domenici and Indian leaders are in a stand-off over road building in Petroglyph National Monument.
Jamie Murray July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Agency wants to shoot down gun club
The Forest Service's attempt to shut down a gun range on the edge of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area leads to embarrassment when the agency's expert witness, Glen Shumsky, is found to be a fraud.
Jim Nintzel And Greg Hanscom June 7, 1997 From the print edition
The West weathers unusually wet times
Although the Southwest remains too dry, most of the West rejoices in an unusually wet year - and is grateful to have avoided much flooding.
Greg Hanscom July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Coalition says: Stop logging watersheds
The Oregon Natural Resources Council leads a coalition in asking the Forest Service to end all logging of municipal watersheds in the Northwest.
Alan Schussman July 7, 1997 From the print edition
San Luis heats up again
As the logging of the Taylor Ranch resumes, protests flare up in the local community of San Luis, Colo.
Peter Mcbride July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Weighing in on mining rules
Mining supporters outnumber environmentalists at a series of meetings held in the West by the BLM to consider possible changes in BLM mining regulations.
Heather Abel July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Cove-Mallard warms up for another summer
As the Forest Service gets a court OK to resume logging in Idaho's Cove-Mallard, activists resume protesting and getting arrested.
Dustin Solberg July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Hanford workers point the finger
Four workers at the Hanford, Wash., plutonium reclamation facility say they are still suffering health problems after a May 14 accident at the facility.
Emily Miller July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Get your ash off our mountain
The Forest Service prohibits scattering human ashes on its land - and Native Americans object, too - but the remains keep appearing.
Emily Miller July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Lakes vanish - and then return
A 10-mile stretch of lakes, creeks and a waterfall in Lincoln County, Wash. - dry for a decade - come back to life this spring as the drought ends.
Emily Miller July 7, 1997 From the print edition
The Wayward West
Looter gets break on sentence; Tate and Hodel replace Reed in Christian Coalition; Wyo.'s Gov. Jim Geringer on endangered ranching; Helen Chenoweth on "warm-climate community"; Hari Heath's Benewah County group secedes; Dan Quayle gets Western address.
Heather Abel July 7, 1997 From the print edition

Opinion

After 120 years, the Nez Perce come home
The Nez Perce Indians regain Oregon land lost to them for 120 years, and decide to use it as a wildlife preserve.
Elizabeth Manning Opinion July 7, 1997 From the print edition

Letters

Hopis aren't the villains
Steve Blodgett July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Goats don't belong in Olympic National Park
Charles D. Louch July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Pigs can't fly
Mike Benefield July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Are we so shallow of spirit?
David Seppa July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Coffee drinkers can choose
Jim Barngrover July 7, 1997 From the print edition
Our role as stewards
Warren Murphy July 7, 1997 From the print edition
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