So many people want to take a river trip through the Grand
Canyon that limits set by the Park Service - which many say favor
commercial outfitters over private boaters - create an
administrative nightmare for the agency.
Magazine
December 21, 1998
So many people want to take a river trip through the Grand Canyon that limits set by the Park Service - which many say favor commercial outfitters over private boaters - create an administrative nightmare for the agency.
Feature
Sidebar
An excerpt from the journals of Buzz Holmstrom describes
the first solo river trip through the Grand Canyon in
1937.
Book review of "The Doing of the Thing: The Brief
Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom," by Vince Welch,
Brad Dimock and Curt Conley, which chronicles the life of Buzz
Holmstrom, who made the first solo trip through Grand Canyon in
1937.
Timeline of significant events within the Grand Canyon
from 1869 to 1997.
Artist and boater Ellen Tibbetts creates a delightful
excursion into the imagination of a Grand Canyon river
rat.
Uncommon Westerners
HCN readers Gene Bray and Irene Wright of Meridian, Idaho,
are profiled.
Essays
A river guide who first worked on the Colorado River
through Grand Canyon in 1971 describes how a funky, rugged,
adventurous business turned into an expenisve, elitist, lavishly
catered "service" that has left him disillusioned with the whole
thing.
Book Reviews
"Cecil Andrus: Politics Western Style," by Cecil Andrus
and Joel Connelly, is a good read about a good political
life.
Folksinger, activist and river rat Katie Lee shares her
memories of Glen Canyon in her new book, "All My Rivers Are
Gone."
The 15th Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be held Jan. 23-30
in Elko, Nev.
The relationship between nature and society will be
explored in the North American Interdisciplinary Conference at
Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, Feb. 11-13.
Public comments are being accepted on recent road closures
on Idaho's Targhee National Forest in an effort to protect grizzly
bear habitat.
The latest ecosystem research will be explored at a
conference on Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast
Range, Jan. 12-13, at Oregon State University.
Heard Around the West
Salt Lake City swap meet recycles useless gadgetry;
"Save-A-Tree" in Oregon; Jimmie Ray Derington arrested for poaching
trees in Calif.; breasts are OK in Moscow, Idaho; 17th Annual
Kiwanis follies in Jackson, Wyo.; the bard was a birder.
Dear Friends
January HCN board meeting in St. George, Utah; winter
wins; corrections.
News
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt wants to create a new
national monument: a 3 million-acre stretch of BLM land between the
Grand Canyon and the Utah border, known as the Arizona
Strip.
Five reintroduced Mexican wolves have been shot and killed
in Arizona and New Mexico, and while an investigation goes on, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases four more animals into the
wild.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes temporary
protection for the endangered Preble's meadow jumping mouse, which
biologists believe is declining because of urban sprawl near
Denver.
Whirling disease hits trout in Yellowstone; Moscow, Idaho,
Earth Firster Lori Graves finds Molotov cocktail; Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Ore., fights reopening of Hanford nuclear reactor; political
support rises for removal of Atlas uranium tailings near Moab,
UT.
The Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
(ICBEMP, or Ice Bump) lives through a Republican-led attempt to
kill it in Congress.
Outdated plumbing in Yellowstone National Park's tourist
lodges is spilling sewage into the water, and the state of Wyoming
has threatened to fine the Park Service unless it takes care of the
problem.
A growing number of human-mountain lion conflicts in the
Rattlesnake Recreation Area near Missoula, Mont., has led officials
to end a ban on hunting the big cats there.
Opinion
Jim Nelson, who managed the Humboldt-Toiyabe National
Forest in Nevada for years amid environmentalist acclaim, has had
his career derailed by whistleblowers that the writer believes
acted without justification, in a spirit of personal
malice.
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