The author remembers his early days in a small Colorado
mountain town, and ponders the economic and social changes that
have slowly turned "Mendicant Mountain" into a bustling, expensive
ski resort.
Magazine
March 18, 2002
The author remembers his early days in a small Colorado mountain town, and ponders the economic and social changes that have slowly turned "Mendicant Mountain" into a bustling, expensive ski resort.
Feature
Book Reviews
Char Miller's new biography, "Gifford Pinchot and the
Foundation of Modern Environmentalism," reveals the self-serving
careerist who founded the Forest Service and used his political
skills to protect the environment.
Two new biographies of Edward Abbey - James Cahalan's
"Edward Abbey: A Life" and Jack Loeffler's "Adventures with Ed: A
Portrait of Abbey," add depth and life to the legendary figure of
Cactus Ed.
Writers on the Range
An Alaska company's much-mocked plan to haul bags of water
400 miles along the California coast is really no crazier than the
things California has come up with in its search for
water.
President Bush's brand-new National Energy Office is
designed to expedite drilling and mining on public lands.
Heard Around the West
Aspen not very sympathetic to Kenneth Lay; spuds in the
news; postal pheasant dies; pigs fly in N.M. Legislature; flaming,
flying cow pies; Dave Barry in North Dakota; Wyo. Sen. Bob Peck
blames women for not earning more money.
Dear Friends
March weather; Tom Bell wins Conservationist of the Year
Award; Hal Clifford is finalist in journalism awards; Ed Marston
talks about Ed Abbey; visitors and boo-boos; HCN is halfway to its
goal in the "Spreading the News" fund-raising campaign.
News
The Forest Service proposes an experimental program that
would create "charter forests" to be administered outside the
normal agency structure.
Eric Schaeffer resigns from EPA in protest; BLM withdraws
approval of Nevada kitty-litter mine; Colorado lynx may not be
reproducing; judge says Klamath Tribe has oldest water rights;
timber companies want protection of northern spotted owl
reconsidered.
The Santa Fe Watershed Partners Group is working with the
Santa Fe National Forest to find an environmentally sensible way to
thin and burn a New Mexico forest that has become a fire
hazard.
Martha Hahn is forced out of her job as Idaho state
director of the BLM, largely because she backed grazing cutbacks in
the Owyhee Mountains.
After the enthusiastic boosterism that surrounded
alternative livestock in the 1980s, emu, ostrich, elk and bison
producers have seen the market - and their incomes -
plummet.
The few remaining ranchers in Pitkin County, Colo., feel
that a rezoning plan intended to concentrate Aspen's growth will
end up harming them.
In an attempt to stem particulate air pollution caused by
dust from California's dry Owens Lake, water is being returned to
the lake bed for the first time in 90 years.
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