In West Yellowstone, Mont., where snowmobile tourism is a
mainstay of the economy, locals are split between fierce supporters
of the industry and those who favor a little more quiet and a
measure of control.
Magazine
April 1, 2002
In West Yellowstone, Mont., where snowmobile tourism is a mainstay of the economy, locals are split between fierce supporters of the industry and those who favor a little more quiet and a measure of control.
Feature
Sidebar
The Environmental Protection Agency is developing the
first emission standards for off-road motors, including
snowmobiles.
The National Park Service has issued its Winter-Use Plans
Draft Supplemental EIS, the agency's first attempt to manage winter
traffic in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
Essays
Honest work producing honest goods - not industrial
tourism - is the way for Westerners to start a healthy, honest,
economic and spiritual relationship with our landscape.
Perspective
The campaign finance reform bill sponsored by John McCain
and Russell Feingold won't solve everything, but it may give
grassroots environmental groups a bit of an edge in future
political battles.
Writers on the Range
The sustainable-business movement, which holds that
environmentalism and business can be a winning combination, is not
as easy on the ground as it may seem.
Wyoming's fight with Montana over a new Montana stamp that
shows a cowboy on a bucking horse shows that the Postal Service has
fallen for Western myths that have nothing to do with the states'
real characters.
Book Reviews
A new film, "Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance," documents
years of protests against clear-cut logging in Northern
California's Headwaters Forest.
"Northern Lights," series of eight articles by Michael
Jamison in Montana's Missoulian, profiles Native American women who
have begun to speak up, take charge and bring change to
reservations.
"Solving Sprawl," a new book by the Natural Resources
Defense Council, offers guidance on how to counter poorly planned
patterns of growth.
A new report by Idaho Fish and Game, "Encounters of the
Feline Kind: Mountain Lions and You," offers advice for humans who
find themselves in mountain lion territory.
Heard Around the West
Nevada sells itself as 'predator' playground; hunters vs.
humor; salmon vs. highways; solar energy in rainy Oregon; drunk
driver vs. driving direction; Nevada sheriff enters brothel biz;
cleaning person finds grenade; 1901 doctor praises
bicycling.
Dear Friends
Reporter Ray Ring on snowmobiles; talented West; Judge
Greg Hobbs talks about water; Gosh, Hawk, we're sorry! And an
update on the capital campaign.
News
A serious drought in the Colorado River watershed has
California and Arizona wondering where the water will come
from.
Nuclear power plant may be built in Idaho; Bruce Babbitt
to head international division of Cadiz Inc.; Bonneville Power
Administration says salmon will get water this summer; Hanford
Nuclear Reservation; CO Rep. Scott McInnis wants single "fire
czar."
In many Western communities, forest workers are quietly
converting their skills from industrial logging to forest
restoration.
Environmentalists are fighting to stop energy development
in Montana's Upper Missouri River Breaks National
Monument.
Road closures to protect endangered Sonoran pronghorn in
Ariz.'s Cabeza Prieta Nat'l Wildlife Refuge and Organ Pipe Cactus
Nat'l Monument will keep the public out, but may not stem the tide
of drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and Border Patrol
agents.
Rock climbers are fuming at the Forest Service's decision
to all but outlaw climbing at caves near Bend, Ore., that are
sacred to local tribes and also home to dwindling numbers of
bats.
In New Mexico, Albuquerque's new mayor, Martin Chavez, has
renewed support for building a controversial road through
Petroglyph National Monument.
On the coast of Oregon, federal agencies have decided to
start poisoning and killing the predators that steal the eggs of
endangered snowy plovers.
April Fools
Western Runaround, Klunk and HotFlashes give useful
information about the West, which can be rather a silly
place.
Letters
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