Magazine
Seed in the ground

March 4, 2002

On South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, some Oglala Lakota are defying the federal government to grow industrial hemp, hoping that it can help to revitalize both the tribe's economy and its government.

Feature

Seed in the ground
On South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, some Oglala Lakota are defying the federal government to grow industrial hemp, hoping that it can help to revitalize both the tribe's economy and its government.
Rebecca Clarren March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Sidebar

Marijuana's boring sibling
Agricultural or industrial hemp lacks the psychoactive qualities of marijuana, but the DEA refuses to make a distinction.
Rebecca Clarren March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Essays

In the grip of Ungulate Fever
Life in western Colorado leads to many close encounters with deer and elk, both living and dead.
Paul Larmer Essay March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Book Reviews

A wing and a genius grant
Tucson pilot Sandy Lanham wins a MacArthur "genius grant" for her work flying scientists and conservationists while charging no more than the cost of fuel and airport fees.
Mitch Tobin March 4, 2002 From the print edition
BLM's coalbed methane plan disappoints enviros
The federal government plans to allow gas companies to drill nearly 40,000 new coalbed methane wells in Wyoming's Powder River Basin over the next 10 years.
Julie Elliott March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Bush administration wall hanging
Earthjustice's free 2002 calendar, "(Dis)Appointments: Bush Officials and the Administration's Environmental Record," offers discouraging words about, and unflattering photos of, the Bush administration's appointees.
Rebecca Clarren March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

You can call mine Mortgage Manor
A new database that allows one to register the fancy names of luxury homes for $75 a house will not get a lot of use by those who live in houses with names like Sagging Floor and Mortgage Manor.
Mary Sojourner Opinion Essay March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Westerners share a different reality
A "Time" magazine column about satellite radio that described the New Jersey Turnpike as "the middle of nowhere" provides unintentional humor to Westerners who know the real meaning of nowhere.
Ray Ring Opinion Essay March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Gas masks at Yellowstone; don't say "New Jersey"; thrifty woman fends off bank robber; California water absurdities; unintentionally funny headlines; sand-skiing; Albee or Abbey?; Damien Hirst's "art" accidentally tidied away.
Betsy Marston March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Greg Hanscom writes from the Winter Olympics in his home town, Park City, Utah, and predicts an Olympic-sized hangover for the state; red-tailed hawk or northern goshawk? And a heart-warming letter from Dave Catterson about his late father, Paul.
Paul Larmer March 4, 2002 From the print edition
'His courtroom was a classroom'
Judge William L. Dwyer, the man behind the 1991 spotted owl ruling and a lifetime friend of the environment, dies at the age of 72.
Andy Stahl March 4, 2002 From the print edition

News

Klamath Basin II: The saga continues
A controversial National Academy of Sciences report on Oregon's Klamath Basin states that federal biologists had no scientific basis to withhold water from farmers to protect endangered fish.
Rebecca Clarren March 4, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
Nevada sues over Yucca Mountain; lawsuit against Enron involves Taylor Ranch in Colo.'s San Luis Valley; Blackfeet Tribe's wind-power project stalls; Mark Warren Sands sentenced for torching homes in Ariz.; Steve Huffaker heads Idaho Fish and Game.
Matt Jenkins March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Is a coal mine pumping the Hopi dry?
Hopi Indians fear that Peabody Western Coal is draining the aquifer that provides their water even as the company's royalties bring money to the reservation.
Daniel Kraker March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Ghost of the Selkirks fading fast
The last herd of mountain caribou in the U.S. is down to 30-some animals, and biologists and conservationists say lack of funds stalls rescue work.
Kevin Taylor March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Tug-of-war over water
The Colorado Legislature is mulling over a bill that would allow farmers and cities to retain rights to any water they leave instream for fish and boaters.
Sarah Wright March 4, 2002 From the print edition
EPA wants to supersize Idaho Superfund site
State and federal officials fight over how to clean up Idaho's Silver Valley, where mining pollution has spread past the Bunker Hill Superfund Site into Lake Coeur d'Alene and a huge swath of northern Idaho.
Mark Matthews March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Bull trout get some help
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees to designate critical habitat for the threatened bull trout.
Julie Elliott March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Development threatens historic town
Critics say that Washington's Growth Management Act failed to do its job in protecting small towns like Roslyn, which will soon see its population quintupled by the development of the MountainStar Resort.
Dave Wortman March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Lawsuit is for the dogs
The Montana Shooting Sports Association is fighting a BLM ban on prairie dog hunting intended to save habitat for the endangered blackfooted ferret.
Sarah Wright March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Colorado oil shale gets a second look
Royal Dutch/Shell wants to take another crack at producing petroleum from oil shale in northwestern Colorado's Piceance Basin, but local towns such as Parachute are wary, remembering the last energy boom and bust in the region.
Hal Clifford March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Montana revved up about snowmobile agreement
Snowmobilers and wilderness advocates come to an agreement on motorized access in Montana's Flathead National Forest.
Sarah Wright March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Who's bringing home the bacon?
The Environmental Working Group has put together a Web site that lists the amounts of federal subsidies farmers have received since the 1996 Farm Bill was passed.
Sarah Wright March 4, 2002 From the print edition

Letters

One thin thread of hope
Jenifer Morrissey March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Who is a Westerner?
Cain Allen March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Allen Best flunks the snow test
Mark Williams March 4, 2002 From the print edition
More on Mormons' bad rap
Lester Wood March 4, 2002 From the print edition
The Marlboro Man and the Sage Grouse
Stan Moore March 4, 2002 From the print edition
'It's (Montana's) economy, stupid!'
Mark Spinti March 4, 2002 From the print edition
Montanans still for environment
Dennis Tighe March 4, 2002 From the print edition
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