Ten years after Frank and Deborah Popper first proposed
turning depopulated Great Plains counties into a 'Buffalo Commons,'
their once-controversial ideas are getting more respect in the
region as the population continues to decline.
Magazine

January 15, 2001
Ten years after Frank and Deborah Popper first proposed turning depopulated Great Plains counties into a 'Buffalo Commons,' their once-controversial ideas are getting more respect in the region as the population continues to decline.
Feature
Sidebar
In the Great Plains, some buffalo ranchers are trying to
make the animals pay without turning them into beef cattle
clones.
A bibliography offers more information on the Buffalo
Commons idea and the ecology and economics of the Great
Plains.
Book Reviews
Len Ackland's book, "Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats
and the Nuclear West," gives a comprehensive and often scary
history of the Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory near Denver,
Colo.
The National Park Service's Artist-in-Residence program
invites artists, writers and musicians to live and work in some of
the West's most beautiful national parks.
The Red Feather Development Group works to bring to Indian
reservations low-cost, efficient housing, using straw-bale
construction.
James S. Griffith's "Hecho a Mano" uses photos and
language to explore the creative folk arts of the Mexican-American
residents of Tucson, Ariz.
Heard Around the West
Cattle vs. motorists; Mont. Gov.-elect happy to be
industry's lap dog; bumper stickers; ORVers superior to hikers?;
legumes more valuable due to mad-cow disease scare; do fish feel
pain?; when good sea otters go bad; guerilla bumper stickers on
SUVs.
Dear Friends
January board meeting in Phoenix; Beyond the (political)
revolution; HCN for politicians; new interns Kirsten Bovee and Matt
Jenkins; contradistinguishing cows.
News
President-elect George W. Bush has nominated former
Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton to head the Interior
Department, and some environmentalists are worried about her ties
to industry.
West's population is booming; Summitville's Robert
Friedland to pay cleanup penalties; national standards for organic
foods set; Molycorp mine in Questa, N.M., must stop dumping in Red
River; Babbitt proposes three more national monuments.
Some environmentalists fear that a proposed land exchange
involving Oregon's Clatsop State Forest will lead to the logging of
an intact forest ecosystem.
The Clinton administration's final Northwest salmon plan
is tougher than earlier versions, but still stops short of
dismantling four federal dams on the Snake River.
In Idaho, the Winter Coalition has brought together
snowmobilers and Nordic skiers to zone winter recreation uses in
the Sawtooth National Forest.
Republicans are trying to undo the Clinton
administration's planned phase-out of snowmobiles in Yellowstone
and Grand Teton national parks.
Rocky Flats, a former nuclear bomb factory, is caught
between Denver's rapidly growing suburbs, which covet the open
space, and conservationists who want the cleaned-up area to become
a national wildlife refuge.
Opinion
The incoming Republican administration in Washington,
D.C., will not find it easy to undo the newly awakened
environmental direction of Bruce Babbitt's invigorated Interior
Department.
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