The grassroots environmental group Amigos Bravos seeks
consensus in the mostly Hispanic communities along the Rio Costilla
in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, where there is never
enough water to go around.
Magazine
October 12, 1998
The grassroots environmental group Amigos Bravos seeks consensus in the mostly Hispanic communities along the Rio Costilla in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, where there is never enough water to go around.
Feature
Sidebar
HCN begins a series on the successes and failures of
collaborative conservation efforts in the West.
Stanley Crawford's book "Mayordomo" chronicles his
experience as mayordomo of the Acequia de la Jara in his rural New
Mexico community.
An excerpt from Stanley Crawford's book "Mayordomo" traces
the connections of blood relationships and water relationships in
his New Mexico community.
Stanley Crawford says that being mayordomo is like being
the heart, pumping out precious fluid.
The upper Rio Grande's 15 major tributaries all face
distinct problems with a complex history behind them.
Essays
A slideshow on Joe Sorkness's 97th birthday recalls his
hard and dedicated life as a country doctor in North
Dakota.
Book Reviews
In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, a flood reveals more than
2,000 dinosaur tracks in a gully.
An unusual theater group, Human Nature, tries to ease
things between environmentalists and loggers with musical comedy
and satire.
Some say the "Vision 20/20 National Parks Restoration Act"
would only continue the "sweetheart contracting practices" that
allow concessionaires to profit without returning much money to the
parks.
The Northern Alaska Environmental Center tracks
environmental problems with its quarterly newsletter, "The Northern
Line."
In "Avoiding the Shaft: The New Mexico Citizen's Mining
Manual," Sue McIntosh aims to help New Mexico activists battle
hardrock mining.
A conference held in Denver, Colo., Oct. 30 will consider
the future of the world's supply of petroleum.
This year's National Trails Symposium, "Trails and the
American Spirit," will be held Nov. 13-17 in Tucson,
Ariz.
The Worldwatch Institute's report shows that solar power's
growth rate is up.
Heard Around the West
Elvis the pig; bears eating out in Aspen, Colo., and
Whitefish, Mont.; grizzly victim not mad; Chocolate the Glacier
Grizzly, a children's book heroine, kills a man; bear vs. hunter
over elk meat; dog lovers protest dog rules; dogs are lousy
drivers.
Dear Friends
Research fund; sweeps month for print media; the Pueblo
potluck and board meeting; new intern Gabriel Ross; fall
visitors.
News
Idaho environmentalist Gary Richardson fights a difficult
battle from his seat on the county highway board, where he seeks to
contain Boise's growth and work for alternative
transportation.
Gary Snyder's talk to OSU's Forestry School cancelled;
Friends of Savage Rapids Dam say they can save salmon without
destroying dam; in N.M. the BLM pulls cows from 40 miles of
streambanks; Crested Butte, Colo.'s land-trade dispute; more Calif.
condors.
Pacific Lumber and Earth First! argue over who is
responsible for the death of activist David Chain, killed by a
falling tree in a protest on California's Headwaters
Forest.
Blackfeet Indians argue over the planned oil and gas
exploration on Chief Mountain, on the border between the
reservation and Glacier National Park.
The Udall family still lives in politics, as Morris
Udall's son, Mark, runs for Congress in Colorado and Stewart's son,
Tom, runs for the House of Representatives in New Mexico.
Wolf activist Suzanne Laverty teams with outfitter Travis
Bullock to lead tourists on trips in Idaho's wolf
country.
In Montana, the pack of reintroduced wolves known as the
Ninemile wolves, has developed a mysteriously destructive appetite
for cattle, and neither ranchers nor wolf biologists are sure of
what to do about it.
Rio Arriba County, N.M., a pro-logging area, passes a
far-reaching law to mandate environmentally responsible
logging.
Environmentalists object to a Forest Service plan to build
a new snowmobile bridge across Cougar Creek near the edge of
Yellowstone National Park.
Activists fear a proposed nickel mine on Rough and Ready
Creek in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest could harm a unique
ecosystem.
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