The series "The Hidden West" is High Country News' look at
communities that are on the edge and often uncertain of their
future.
Magazine
July 5, 1999
The series "The Hidden West" is High Country News' look at communities that are on the edge and often uncertain of their future.
Feature
In Caldwell, Idaho, and other towns in southern Idaho, a
growing Hispanic community is breaking old migrant-worker
stereotypes and showing new economic and educational
strength.
Longtime residents of Alberta Street and other
neighborhoods in Northeast Portland, Ore., have survived poverty
and drive-by shootings and now face a new challenge in the growing
gentrification of the area.
As the nearby Big Mountain Ski Resort booms, service
workers find they can no longer afford to live in what was once the
working-class town of Whitefish, Mont.
Sidebar
Farm worker advocate Maria Gonzales Mabbutt credits United
Farm Workers' founder Cesar Chavez with inspiring her to help her
people in Southern Idaho's Canyon County.
Book Reviews
The Western Water Workshop at Western State College in
Gunnison, Colo., offers "Garden of Dreams vs. High Desert Reality:
Can We Save Everything, Keep Our Lawns Green and Have Enough Water
For Everyone?" July 28-30.
The Political Economy Research Center offers fellowships
in free market solutions to environmental problems.
The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is looking for
trail-crew volunteers for weekends on Mount Harvard and Mount
Bierstadt in Colorado.
The Western States Center's annual training program offers
community leaders a chance to learn about civil rights, the
environment and labor, July 29-Aug. 1 in Portland, Ore.
John Day, Ore., hosts a renewable energy fair July
24-25.
Charles Wilkinson's new book, "Fire on the Plateau:
Conflict and Endurance in the American Southwest," is a tribute to
the land and people of the Colorado Plateau, especially the Native
American inhabitants.
Heard Around the West
Rotting bison skulls in Red Lodge, MT; Werner Zink sells
plastic lumber in Coos Bay, OR; BASE jumpers in Lake Powell; hot
air in Denver; outlaw bur reed in Home Depot; ranchers' gun fight
in Riverton, WY; Salt Lake City outlaws fun; advice from Ed
Abbey.
Dear Friends
Perri Knize and cow statistics; visitors; Diane Sylvain's
maps and Charles Wilkinson's book; odds and ends, ad policy and HCN
takes a break.
News
Notorious developer Tom Chapman is circulating a glossy
brochure for the mansions he says he plans to build on former
mining claims in Colorado's Holy Cross Wilderness.
Environmentalists are at odds over an experimental logging
plan intended to restore forest health and reduce the risk of
wildfire in the ponderosa pines around Flagstaff, Ariz.
NW Forest Plan not saving owls; logging planned for
beetle-infested forests in Wash. and Idaho; Canadian company to
drill for oil on Blackfeet Reservation; Montana press secretary
Andrew Malcolm to work for Bush campaign; Navajo Nation sues
Peabody Coal.
Controversy is rising over plans by artists Christo and
Jeanne-Claude to suspend translucent fabric over four to six miles
of the Arkansas River between Caûon City and Salida,
Colo.
The Supreme Court rules that coalbed methane gas in
southwestern Colorado does not belong to the Southern Utes, even
though the tribe owns the coal from which the methane is
extracted.
The Montana Mining Association's lone remaining employee,
Executive Director Jill Andrews, blames last November's initiative,
which restricts open-pit cyanide heap-leach mining, for destroying
her industry in the state.
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has not yet made up
its mind on Gov. Mike Leavitt's 1 million-acre wilderness proposal
for Utah's West Desert.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks hopes
to restore the disappearing fluvial Arctic grayling to five rivers
in the state.
Montana farmer Brian Schweitzer launches a lively campaign
for election to the United States Senate, running as a Democrat in
a Republican stronghold.
Race-car driver Travis Panko's plan to build a race track
on a ranch near Stevensville, Mont., has many of his Bitterroot
Valley neighbors incensed.
Environmentalists and other critics are irate at Sen. John
McCain's proposal to allow the military use of 3 million acres of
public land in Arizona and New Mexico, including the Cabeza Prieta
National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona.
Letters
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