Magazine
Here lies the Rio Grande

February 18, 2002

The last issue of the "Imagine a River" series on the Rio Grande examines how the river has become the "Rio Wimpy," running out of water twice before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.

Feature

Here lies the Rio Grande
The last issue of the "Imagine a River" series on the Rio Grande examines how the river has become the "Rio Wimpy," running out of water twice before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.
Greg Hanscom Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
A river on the line
A journey down the Lower Rio Grande through Texas and Mexico finds a sometimes-waterless river that faces a host of environmental, agricultural and human problems.
Greg Hanscom Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

Sidebar

What is poisoning border babies?
Terrible birth defects among newborns in the Lower Rio Grande Valley may be caused by agricultural and industrial pollution, but no one knows for sure.
Dan Oko Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Running for cover on the Rio Grande
Refuges such as the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge are among the few scattered fragments of habitat left in Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Dan Oko Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

Essays

Greens join 'Let's derail a judge' game
Environmentalists adopt the conservative strategy of working to derail the nomination of federal judges whom they fear could harm their cause.
Ray Ring Essay Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

How does snow melt? A test for all Westerners
With each flood of newcomers to the Interior West, specialized knowledge of place and culture is both lost and gained.
Allen Best Opinion Essay Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Attention, wolves: I'm what's for dinner
In the extremely unlikely event that any wolves reintroduced to Colorado began eating people, the writer says he would gladly volunteer to serve as a meal.
Marty Jones Opinion Essay Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
The Eucalyptus: Sacred or profane?
The writer says that California's much-prized eucalyptus trees are really overgrown, fire-prone weeds that would be better off in their native Australia.
Ted Williams Opinion Essay Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Guns a-plenty in Utah; dangerous tweezers; diplomatic liquor flows into Utah, along with ambitious hookers; Salt Lake hikes up rents; Colorado's reborn "Mountain Gazette"; tumbleweed problems in eastern Washington.
Betsy Marston Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
An educational journey down the Rio Grande; top books about Montana; visitors; misspellings.
Paul Larmer Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

News

Cheney picks former aide to oversee parks, BLM,wildlife
The Bush administration picks Wyoming resident Paul Hoffman to run the BLM as assistant secretary of the Interior for fish, wildlife and parks.
Ray Ring Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Predator politics gets ugly in Idaho
Under pressure from ranchers, Gov. Dirk Kempthorne and other conservatives, Rod Sando resigns from his position as director of Idaho's Department of Fish and Game.
Rocky Barker and Roger Phillips Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
Salvage logging plan for Montana's burned Bitterroot forest meets approval; Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad line approved; experimental program would kill coyotes to save sage grouse in Idaho and Utah; Steven A. Williams new director of USFWS.
Matt Jenkins Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Condor program laden with lead
Endangered condors reintroduced in the West are dying, many from lead poisoning caused by the bullets in the carcasses they feed on.
Mason Adams Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Battle brews over a wilderness mother lode
Activists are fighting a copper and silver mine planned for underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in Montana.
Matt Jenkins and Ron Selden Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Will bulldozers roll into Arizona's Eden?
Anti-grazing activist Joe Feller is leading the fight against BLM-approved projects in Arizona's Arrastra Mountain Wilderness that include an improved access road to a rancher's inholding.
Tony Davis Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Scouts (dis)honor
Tucson, Ariz., development foes are upset by a plan to sell land that was given to the Boy Scouts by a local rancher 30 years ago.
Karen Mockler Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Buyout for bears
Defenders of Wildlife and the Wyoming Wilderness Society are paying an Idaho sheep rancher to move to a different grazing allotment, so that grizzly bears can safely live on the original allotment.
Sarah Wright Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Moose-slinging ends
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources' plan to use helicopters to relocate moose on Interstate 80 is halted when one of the helicopters crashes, killing three.
Julie Elliott Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Dunes shifts toward park status
Residents of Colorado's San Luis Valley are pleased at the prospect of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument adding the neighboring Baca Ranch and becoming a national park.
Robyn Morrison Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Entrepreneur shovels trouble
Archaeologists are appalled at Anasazi Digs, a family-owned business near Monticello, Utah, that plans to sell the right to dig and keep artifacts from prehistoric ruins on private land.
Sarah Wright Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Groundswell for a monument?
Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt startles environmentalists with his suggestion for a new national monument on the San Rafael Swell.
Matt Jenkins Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition

Letters

A great read, but does it compute?
Includes Randy Udall's reply
David Brich Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
If you want to save it, buy it
Mike Jennison Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
'Finding the words' a spear to the heart
Sam Lucy Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Pasayten not ugly: HCN slant is
Carl R. Miller Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
Band-aid environmentalism
John Walker Feb. 18, 2002 From the print edition
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