A close look at the history of the West reveals that human
beings have meddled with and sometimes changed the landscape for as
long as they have lived on the continent.
Magazine
August 18, 1997
A close look at the history of the West reveals that human beings have meddled with and sometimes changed the landscape for as long as they have lived on the continent.
Feature
Sidebar
A look at odd statistics in the West includes a few
surprises.
Essays
A cross-country bicycle trip through the West reveals
quirky and sometimes enigmatic road signs everywhere.
A stroll through Sedona, Ariz., the West's New Age center,
shows that enlightenment is there for the finding - if you have
enough money.
A writer looks back ruefully at what went wrong with a
one-time utopian, back-to-the-land community in Oregon.
Musing on the gravestones in Anaconda, Mont., a writer
theorizes that one can tell whether a town is Old West or New West
by the ratio of the buried to the currently alive
inhabitants.
After a neighbor dies of hantavirus, a California pacifist
grapples with whether - and how - to destroy the deer mice that
carry the disease.
Book Reviews
A report by the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating
Committee, "Winter Visitor Use Management," discusses the threats
to the park brought on by recent, greatly increased winter
visitation.
The nonprofit Mono Lake Committee is getting ready for a
Restoration Days celebration, Aug. 29-Sept. 1.
Two conservationists and a rancher in New Mexico found the
Quivira Coalition to seek a middle way between environmentalists
and wise-users.
Book review of Dave Smith's "Backcountry Bear Basics: The
Definitive Guide to Avoiding Unpleasant Encounters."
The heritage program of the Colville National Forest will
host Journey Home: The Homecoming Heritage Celebration, Aug.
21-24.
Book review of the Sonoran Institute's "Preserving Working
Ranches in the West."
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance coordinates
volunteers to survey what's still possible wilderness in the
state.
Book review of "Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of
Population Growth" by Alan Thein Durning and Christopher D.
Crowther.
Heard Around the West
Aspen's swimming pool war; Phil Anschutz's golf course
near Greeley, Colo.; studying prairie dog language; "Animal Farm"
no defense in Newport, Wash.; animal cruelty case; trees cut in
Eugene, Ore.; did Steve Mealey moon the shoreline?; "Bare Bum
Beach"
Dear Friends
The contrary West (wet weather); Silverton newspaper for
sale; fun interruptions; Awesome and other news; and HCN's website
gets a makeover.
News
The National Cancer Institute has been sitting on a study
that says up to 72,000 people - many living far from nuclear bomb
test sites in Nevada - may have been exposed to dangerous amounts
of radiation in the 1950s.
The Navajo Nation tries to come to terms with a growing
garbage problem that has led to numerous illegal dumps on the
reservation.
A broken pipe in Utah's Flaming Gorge Dam creates a crisis
and harms a trout fishery downstream.
In Oregon, five protesters win in court over trespassing
charges stemming from the Warner Creek fire sale in Willamette
National Forest.
Town officials in Forks, Wash., which has been badly hit
by logging restrictions, complain to the state government that they
were promised economic assistance.
New Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck shuffles
personnel in the West around making changes environmentalists say
are a step in the right direction.
The Department of Energy begins a series of underground
nuclear detonations at the Nevada Test Site, and environmentalists
and arms control groups protest.
Lyle McNeal, founder of Utah State University's Navajo
Sheep Project, comes to a crisis with the university and files suit
against it over the future of his project to save the Churro
sheep.
President Clinton and Interior Secretary Babbitt remake
the Interior Dept., appointing Patrick Shea to head BLM; Jamie
Rappaport Clark to head Fish & Wildlife; Kathy Karpan to the
Office of Surface Mining, and Robert Stanton to direct the Park
Service.
Opinion
Washoe Tribal Chairman Brian Wallace gains assurances from
President Clinton at the forum on Lake Tahoe that the Washoe
Indians have rights to Lake Tahoe land.
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