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.
Magazine
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
An Appalachian transplant seeks community in Wyoming coal
towns Gillette and Wright.
Wyoming's peculiar tax system means that the poorest
families help carry the wealthier mineral industries.
Sidebar
A timeline demonstrates the ebb and flow of Wyoming's
promotional schemes and dreams for development.
The coal mining town of Wright, Wyo., braces for another
boom.
Book Reviews
"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.
The free magazine, "The Bear Essential," is holding its
first annual Edward Abbey short fiction contest, deadline Sept.
2.
The nonprofit Ecological Consultants for the Public
Interest, founded five months ago by Boulder, Colo., lawyer Randall
Weiner, has already made headlines.
The government's planning team for the Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument is seeking ideas.
The Access Fund, a Boulder, Colo.-based rock climbers'
group, seeks to keep climbing unrestricted on public
lands.
Oregon's new magazine, "Capital Press," covers
agricultural issues in the Northwest.
"Consumer Reports" rates its subscribers' experiences in
American national parks and finds many complaints about parking,
bad roads and overcrowding.
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.
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.
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.
News
Yellowstone's reintroduced wolves are thriving - and
reproducing - in the park.
Republicans in Congress give up on extra riders -
including some anti-environmental riders - that were bogging down
the flood-relief bill.
In Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest, environmentalists
protest the China Left timber sale, saying logging will harm
endangered coho salmon.
Bernardine Suitum, 80, sues Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
over her desire to develop a lot she owns in Incline Village,
Nev.
N.M. Sen. Pete Domenici and Indian leaders are in a
stand-off over road building in Petroglyph National
Monument.
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.
Although the Southwest remains too dry, most of the West
rejoices in an unusually wet year - and is grateful to have avoided
much flooding.
The Oregon Natural Resources Council leads a coalition in
asking the Forest Service to end all logging of municipal
watersheds in the Northwest.
As the logging of the Taylor Ranch resumes, protests flare
up in the local community of San Luis, Colo.
Mining supporters outnumber environmentalists at a series
of meetings held in the West by the BLM to consider possible
changes in BLM mining regulations.
As the Forest Service gets a court OK to resume logging in
Idaho's Cove-Mallard, activists resume protesting and getting
arrested.
Four workers at the Hanford, Wash., plutonium reclamation
facility say they are still suffering health problems after a May
14 accident at the facility.
The Forest Service prohibits scattering human ashes on its
land - and Native Americans object, too - but the remains keep
appearing.
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.
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.
Opinion
The Nez Perce Indians regain Oregon land lost to them for
120 years, and decide to use it as a wildlife preserve.
Letters
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
- Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
- How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
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