Magazine
Mining the past

June 7, 1999

The history of the copper-mining town of Butte, Mont., sparks a searching meditation on the meaning and value of work and the place it holds now, as the Old West becomes the New West.

Feature

Mining the past
The history of the copper-mining town of Butte, Mont., sparks a searching meditation on the meaning and value of work and the place it holds now, as the Old West becomes the New West.
Edwin Dobb June 7, 1999 From the print edition

Editor's Note

The Hidden West
Introduction to Edwin Dobb's feature on mining the past in Butte, Montana.
Ed Marston June 7, 1999 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Can computers solve Indian problems?
A GAO report is critical of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' new Trust Asset Accounting Management System, which is intended to reimburse Native Americans for 112 years of sloppy BIA accounting.
Keri Watson June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Tragedy on the border
At least 200 young women have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez while on their way home from low-paying jobs at U.S.-owned factories on the Mexican side of the border.
Michelle Nijhuis June 7, 1999 From the print edition
New tools for bird buffs
The "Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas" and a set of CD-Roms called "Better Birdwatching in Colorado" are excellent resources for Colorado birdwatchers.
Greg Hanscom June 7, 1999 From the print edition
The real thing
Carla Emery's updated "Encyclopedia of Country Living" is an invaluable textbook on the rural life.
Rebecca Clarren June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Mountain plover population
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that mountain plover populations have dropped and proposes listing them as threatened.
Staff June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Environmental Journalism
Western State College offers a workshop June 24-26 on environmental journalism.
Staff June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Mann Gulch Fire
The Helena National Forest will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire in which 13 firefighters died; Aug. 4-5.
Staff June 7, 1999 From the print edition
37th Annual Wilderness Walks
The Montana Wilderness Association offers its 37th annual wilderness walks this summer in different areas.
Staff June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Hands On Colorado: Volunteer Opportunities in 1999
A 64-page guide profiles volunteer opportunities in Colorado.
Staff June 7, 1999 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Utah state seal; "meltable" use area; Las Vegas water cops; Grand Canyon in Colorado?; "antlermania" in Jackson Hole; N.M. epitaphs; extreme snowmobiler in Wyo.; Bart the bison has new home; Celestial Seasonings vs. prairie dogs.
Betsy Marston June 7, 1999 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
New intern Keri Watson; former forest supervisor, now restaurateur Ernie Nunn; HCN board meeting and potluck in Helena, Mont.
Ed Marston June 7, 1999 From the print edition

News

Lions push bighorn onto an island
The California Dept. of Fish and Game plans to restore the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep by moving animals to the haven of Paoha Island in Mono Lake, where they will be safe from mountain lions.
Jane Braxton Little June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Spare the plow, save the squirrel
Environmentalists have so far failed to get an emergency endangered listing for the Washington ground squirrel as the animal's remaining habitat on the Columbia Plateau in Oregon is rapidly developed by an agricultural corporation.
Dan Nailen June 7, 1999 From the print edition
The Wayward West
This spring 50 wolf cubs born at Yellowstone; In Nev., a bill would allow manufactured homes into exclusive neighborhoods; Gray Ranch, N.M., wants prairie dogs from Mexico; nuclear industry seeks support for Yucca Mtn.; no alcohol in Fort Peck Res., MT.
Greg Hanscom June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Armed with alarms
A ranch near Florence, Mont., is experimenting with a new high-tech alarm system designed to scare wolves away from livestock.
Mark Matthews June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Lawsuit may take what's holy
Wyoming Sawmills is suing the Bighorn National Forest over its Historic Preservation Plan, which aims to preserve a Medicine Wheel that is sacred to Native Americans.
Michael Milstein June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Stepping lightly in a sanctuary
At St. Gertrude's Monastery near Cottonwood, Idaho, Sister Carol Ann Wassmuth oversees environmentally sensitive logging.
Julie Titone June 7, 1999 From the print edition
A park all their own
In Arizona, two businessmen plan to turn the former Paulsell Ranch, an archaeologically rich site bordering Petrified Forest National Park, into a privately owned park they are calling the International Petrified Forest.
Katherine Drouin Keith June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Fee fighters blast the Adventure Pass
In Southern California, recreation user-fee opponents are fighting the Forest Service's new "Adventure Pass."
Juniper Davis June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Black Canyon National Park?
Many environmentalists oppose Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell's bill to turn Colorado's Black Canyon National Monument into a national park, because the bill would allow continued hunting, grazing and motorized recreation in some areas.
Catherine Lutz June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Fly-in wilderness
Pilots object to a proposed wilderness management plan that would require user fees and permits on flights to airstrips in Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.
Stephen Stuebner June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Mountain to get a facelift
Pressured by a Sierra Club lawsuit, the city of Colorado Springs has agreed to clean up streams and wetlands degraded by the city-operated toll road up Pikes Peak.
Adam Burke June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Court nixes land exchange
In Washington, a federal appeals court has ruled that the controversial Huckleberry Mountain land exchange needs more study.
Lynne Bama June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Miners sneak a rider onto an appropriation for war
The Interior Dept.'s use of a close reading of the 1872 Mining Law to stop the Crown Jewel mine in the Okanogan Highlands of Washington is overturned by a rider tacked on to an appropriations bill in Washington, D.C.
Dustin Solberg June 7, 1999 From the print edition
'Petroglyph police' try to save the art of the ancients
Amateur archaeologists Sharon and David Hatfield have spent the last six years volunteering at Zion National Park, Utah, where they keep an eye on archaeological sites and try to prevent - and restore - vandalized rock art.
Jenny Attiyeh Opinion June 7, 1999 From the print edition

Letters

Powell was a fire bug
Wayne D. Iverson June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Let's stop trapping
Nancy Zierenberg June 7, 1999 From the print edition
A reluctant advocate
Jack Foster June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Park status doesn't guarantee anything
Gerry Wolfe June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Blah, blah from the ranchette
Dexter Van Zile June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Let's support taxpayer restoration
Andy Robinson June 7, 1999 From the print edition
Always question land trades
Janine Blaeloch June 7, 1999 From the print edition
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