A hike through the old growth of Olympic National Park
with former millworker Jim Podlesny reveals more than one way to
look at a giant Douglas-fir, and also at the life of a one-time
logging community.
Magazine
September 27, 1999
A hike through the old growth of Olympic National Park with former millworker Jim Podlesny reveals more than one way to look at a giant Douglas-fir, and also at the life of a one-time logging community.
Feature
Sidebar
In a fiery open letter to the Aspen Daily News, Douglas,
Ariz., Mayor Ray Borane blames the resort's dependence on cheap
illegal labor for the social and economic problems that plague
border towns like his.
Book Reviews
Michael Collier's photos will be shown as part of the Glen
Canyon Institute's fifth annual fall conference.
The Denver-based Citizens Coal Council charges the federal
office of Surface Mining with being just a pawn of the mining
industry.
Historian Mark Fiege's book, "Irrigated Eden: The Making
of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West," describes
southern Idaho as a hybrid habitat that reveals a complicated
reciprocal relationship between people and nature.
An Earth First!-related group in Eugene, Ore., called Red
Cloud Thunder, has published its fourth issue of a 20-page "zine
called "Expletive deleted."
The Conservation Fund is working with local ranchers to
remove cattle from Nevada's Great Basin National Park.
A workshop on environmental protection and growth
management in the West will be held Oct. 29-30 in Denver,
Colo.
Biologists are trying to track sightings of the endangered
boreal toad in Colorado.
Perspective
Despite growing public support for more wilderness,
Congress is unlikely to add any acreage, for a variety of political
and even philosophical reasons.
As the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Sonoran
Desert into Arizona rises, the Border Patrol is faced with the need
to protect a fragile environment at the same time that it polices
the border.
Heard Around the West
Arizona's "Stupid Motorist Act"; Ara Tripp's electrical
power antics in Seattle; contrails or chemtrails?; yellow
starthistle infects Colo.; Scott Silver's Wild Wilderness vs.
Disney; Aspen home prices; trophy home named after Thoreau; Orem
Daily Joural.
Dear Friends
Here come hunters; droppers-in; three cheers for Jared
Farmer and Pete McBride; close encounter with a mountain goat;
interns Ali Macalady and Karen Mockler.
News
A boom in coalbed methane gas development in Wyoming's
Powder River Basin could have the strange side effect of bringing
more water to the surface than the ecosystem can cope
with.
Helen Chenoweth to wed Wayne Hage; Wash.'s Dawn Mining Co.
can't use radioactive dirt to fill old uranium mine; Baca Ranch,
N.M., to be sold to feds; a water block for Cyprus Amax mine in
western Colo.; trophy home near Columbia River Gorge must be
moved
Chronic wasting disease is slowly spreading among the
West's deer and elk herds, and some fear that game farms are partly
to blame for the transmission of the deadly disease.
The Crow Tribe plans to capture 550 elk that roam from its
Montana reservation down into Wyoming, and critics say that the
tribe's foray into game ranching is a plan to steal the public's
wildlife.
Flamboyant Wyoming attorney Gerry Spence is at the head of
a legal challenge to the Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory's plan to build a nuclear-waste
incinerator, which Wyoming residents fear could send emissions into
their state.
A revival of interest in explorers Lewis and Clark raises
questions about how to handle increased tourism on the National
Historic Trail through Montana - as well as questions about how the
history should be told.
For only the second time in 62 years, Colorado voters had
the chance to elect board members to the upper Gunnison River Water
Conservancy District.
Opinion
Wyoming's little-known Red Desert is a unique region rich
in wildlife, history - and also in deposits of oil, gas and
minerals, which could lead to the destruction of the land under
which they're found.
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