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.
Magazine
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
Editor's Note
Introduction to Edwin Dobb's feature on mining the past in
Butte, Montana.
Book Reviews
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.
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.
The "Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas" and a set of CD-Roms
called "Better Birdwatching in Colorado" are excellent resources
for Colorado birdwatchers.
Carla Emery's updated "Encyclopedia of Country Living" is
an invaluable textbook on the rural life.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that mountain
plover populations have dropped and proposes listing them as
threatened.
Western State College offers a workshop June 24-26 on
environmental journalism.
The Helena National Forest will commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire in which 13 firefighters died;
Aug. 4-5.
The Montana Wilderness Association offers its 37th annual
wilderness walks this summer in different areas.
A 64-page guide profiles volunteer opportunities in
Colorado.
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.
Dear Friends
New intern Keri Watson; former forest supervisor, now
restaurateur Ernie Nunn; HCN board meeting and potluck in Helena,
Mont.
News
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.
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.
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.
A ranch near Florence, Mont., is experimenting with a new
high-tech alarm system designed to scare wolves away from
livestock.
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.
At St. Gertrude's Monastery near Cottonwood, Idaho, Sister
Carol Ann Wassmuth oversees environmentally sensitive
logging.
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.
In Southern California, recreation user-fee opponents are
fighting the Forest Service's new "Adventure Pass."
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.
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.
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.
In Washington, a federal appeals court has ruled that the
controversial Huckleberry Mountain land exchange needs more
study.
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.
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.
Letters
- What’s it like to live in a tourist town with no tourists?
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- The Wicked Witch of the West
- Wildfire kills Klamath fish: ‘Everything that’s in there is dead.’
- Record rainfall, bears and French toast at Anchorage’s new city-sanctioned homeless encampment
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