The copper mining company Summo USA's plans to mine in
northern New Mexico and Lisbon Valley, Utah, lead a reporter to
follow what happens when local communities resist - and don't
resist - a hardrock mining project.
Magazine
June 23, 1997
The copper mining company Summo USA's plans to mine in northern New Mexico and Lisbon Valley, Utah, lead a reporter to follow what happens when local communities resist - and don't resist - a hardrock mining project.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, orchardist Estevan Arellano speaks of
querencia - love of home - and how it is threatened by Summo's
planned copper mine.
A brief glossary on the 1872 Mining Law.
In their own words, Kay Howe and Claudia Akers discuss how
their homesteading in Utah's Lisbon Valley turned them into
anti-mining activists.
Tracing Summo USA's family tree can be challenging, since
it is wholly owned by Summo Minerals, a Canadian company, which
does nothing but own its American company.
Essays
Boise, Idaho, realizes that its beloved river needs room
to flow, and that riverfront development may have to be
controlled.
Heard Around the West
Bobby Unser whines about fires; runners win in Colo. Nat'l
Monument; Nev. Republican Rep. Jim Kibbens vs. BLM "monsters"; he's
baaack! (Tom Chapman); Indians protest "John Wayne Parkway";
Karelian bear dogs in Glacier N.P. and bear raids T-shirt
makers.
Dear Friends
Word from Gretchen; corrections, including Charlotte Black
Elk; about guns and such (Myles Rademan), diversity; a new look for
HCN; May 31 board meeting; advice; and call them fellows.
News
After a 25-year battle, developer Fred Kummer gives up his
plan for the Adam's Rib Ski Resort in Colorado's Eagle
County.
A forum intended to come up with a salmon recovery plan
loses support when four Northwest Indian tribes withdraw, charging
that the process favors hydropower, not fish.
Babbitt borrows from Broadway; Moabites convicted of
pilfering artifacts, Billings, Mont., poacher fined; Al Schneberger
quits N.M. Cattle Growers' Assn.; Ruckus Society protesters
arrested; Adam Werbach and Bert Fingerhut head enviro governing
councils.
Vail Associates' plans for night skiing on Colorado's Vail
Mountain are withdrawn after locals protest.
The Forest Service reverses a climbing ban at Cave Rock in
South Lake Tahoe, Nev., despite Indian claims that the site is
sacred.
The long-awaited draft of the Interior Columbia Basin
Ecosystem Management Project draws little but criticism from
environmentalists, loggers, Indian tribes and ranchers.
As the world's great powers meet in Denver and history
happens in their countries' capitals, American politicians seem to
think of nothing but sex.
The firing of New Mexico State University President J.
Michael Orenduff may have been at the behest of ranching
interests.
Utah lawmakers try to push bills thgrough Congress to
limit the Antiquities Act and control management of the new Grand
Staircase-Escalante Nat'l Monument created with the Antiquities
Act.
Californians protest the Dept. of Fish and Game's plans to
poison northern pike in Lake Davis before the voracious fish
migrates down the Feather River and destroys the state's commercial
sport-fishing industry.
Environmentalists accuse the Forest Service of conspiring
with the timber industry in the logging of Idaho's Payette Nat'l
Forest, but a federal judge disagrees.
A small but determined group protests Las Vegas' plan to
take more water from Lake Mead and the Colorado River, saying the
city's growth is already out of control and a potential
public-health disaster looms if the water is contamined.
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