One in six Westerners now lives in a trailer, but this
traditionally affordable housing can become an expensive trap, as
tougher zoning pushes trailers into crowded parks with
ever-increasing rents and regulations.
Magazine
August 17, 1998
One in six Westerners now lives in a trailer, but this traditionally affordable housing can become an expensive trap, as tougher zoning pushes trailers into crowded parks with ever-increasing rents and regulations.
Feature
Sidebar
A timeline tracks the evolution of the not-always-mobile
mobile home.
The cost of a lot in Aspen, Colo., especially with a
trophy home sitting on it, has become astronomical in a resort
rated the richest city in the country.
Essays
When 39 families are evicted from their Edwards, Colo.,
trailer park to make way for a luxury condo development, it's a
sign that property is more important than community.
A rock climber argues that the Forest Service's recent ban
on "permanent, fixed anchors" in wilderness areas is unreasonable,
unnecessary and unsafe.
Hikers who bring their cell phones into the wilderness,
either for ease of rescue or instant access to the rest of the
world, are missing the point of wilderness.
Book Reviews
Some object to the Forest Service's plan to build a new
town for tourists right outside of Grand Canyon National
Park.
The group Partners in Flight tries to stem the decline in
the migrating bird populations of North and South
America.
Recently retired Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., has written
a memoir titled "24 Years of House Work... And the Place is Still a
Mess: My Life in Politics."
The Wilderness Society issues a report, "The New
Challenge: People, Commerce and the Environment in the Yellowstone
to Yukon Region."
"Beyond the National Parks," edited by Mary Tisdale and
Bibi Booth, is a guide to BLM public lands in the West.
A conference, "Litigating Regulatory Takings Claims," will
discuss the right of the government to regulate private property,
among other topics.
Conservationists will meet at a wildlife refuge in
Corvallis, Mont., for "Wild Rockies Rendezvous," Sept.
18-20.
The Tucson Chapter of the Arizona Hydrological Society is
holding a symposium, "Water at the Confluence of Science, Law and
Policy," Sept. 23-26.
Land conservationists will meet Sept. 24-26 in Palisade,
Colo., for the "Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts."
The Predator Project wants comments on a proposed listing
of the lynx as "endangered."
Opponents of the proposed Battle Mountain Gold Mine in
Okanogan Highlands in Washington state plan to send Congress a
message in a bottle.
Heard Around the West
Ruth Thomas bicycles across U.S.; dead doe delivers living
fawn; toddler lost overnight on Mt. Graham; combines vandalized in
Lind, Wash.; indecent exposure in Moscow, Idaho; woman invades
men's room; mountain lions stalk kids; Yellowstone grizzly
fever.
Dear Friends
Summer visitors; mountain climber Winifred "Freddy"
Hubbard at Standford in the 1940s.
News
A conservation easement planned to preserve the Bob Sharp
ranch in Arizona's San Rafael Valley from development falls through
when the ranch family decides to put their land up for
sale.
South Dakota tells Brohm Mining that the company cannot
walk away from its gold mine in the Black Hills without cleaning up
the mess it's made.
Gov. John Kitzhaber's "Oregon Plan" isn't enough to save
the dwindling coho salmon, but some hope the spirit of the planned
recovery effort will remain strong enough to keep the timber
industry cooperative.
Navajo Nation Pres. Thomas Atcitty, who replaced Albert
Hale, is dismissed after only five months in office, and his
replacement, Speaker Kelsey Begaye, is replaced 24 hours later by
Vice President Milton Bluehouse, as appointed by the tribal
council.
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Mgmt. Project may die in
four months; Supreme Court overrules 13 cases decided by 9th
Circuit Court; Summo USA drops mining claims in N.M.; Mont.'s
McDonald gold mine is in paperwork limbo; Atlas uranium tailings
remain.
In Montana, the Church Universal and Triumphant decides to
sell 3,000 acres of the Paradise Valley.
Local business owners and prairie dog shooters object to
the Forest Service's decision to close South Dakota's Buffalo Gap
National Grasslands to prairie dog shooting.
A citizens' ballot initiative would crack down on
pollution and other problems caused by industrial hog farms in
Colorado.
The 1872 Mining Law may allow the Rainbow Talc Mine to
resume operations, despite the mine's location in a wilderness area
of California's Death Valley National Park.
A federal court rules that Idaho's Coeur d'Alene tribe
owns the southern third of Lake Coeur d'Alene, as well as 20 miles
of the St. Joe River.
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