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Move over! Will snowmobile tourism relax its grip on a gateway town?

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

Move over! Will snowmobile tourism relax its grip on a gateway town?
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.
Ray Ring April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Sidebar

Cleaner machines drive (slowly) toward Yellowstone
The Environmental Protection Agency is developing the first emission standards for off-road motors, including snowmobiles.
Ray Ring April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Winter-use plan lurches toward the finish line
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.
Ray Ring April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Essays

The 'Niche West' reconnects us to the land
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.
Ed Quillen Essay April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Perspective

Campaign finance reform may boost grass roots
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.
Jon Margolis April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Notes from a corporate insider: It's not easy turning green
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.
Auden Schendler Opinion Essay April 1, 2002 From the print edition
The Postal Service stamps the mythic West
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.
Mark Matthews Opinion Essay April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Protests from the (tree)top down
A new film, "Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance," documents years of protests against clear-cut logging in Northern California's Headwaters Forest.
Mason Adams April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Letting their lights shine
"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.
Julie Elliott April 1, 2002 From the print edition
A blueprint for better communities
"Solving Sprawl," a new book by the Natural Resources Defense Council, offers guidance on how to counter poorly planned patterns of growth.
Sarah Wright April 1, 2002 From the print edition
How to handle the big cats
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.
Erika Trautman April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

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.
Betsy Marston April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Dear Friends

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.
Paul Larmer April 1, 2002 From the print edition

News

Drought pinches Colorado River reservoirs
A serious drought in the Colorado River watershed has California and Arizona wondering where the water will come from.
Lin Alder and Matt Jenkins April 1, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
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."
Matt Jenkins and Rebecca Clarren April 1, 2002 From the print edition
A new world in the woods
In many Western communities, forest workers are quietly converting their skills from industrial logging to forest restoration.
Jane Braxton Little April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Braking development in the Breaks
Environmentalists are fighting to stop energy development in Montana's Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument.
Sarah Wright April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Wheels still spin after desert lockdown
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.
Mitch Tobin April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Forest Service gives climbers the slip
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.
Ted Katauskas April 1, 2002 From the print edition
A road through a national monument?
In New Mexico, Albuquerque's new mayor, Martin Chavez, has renewed support for building a controversial road through Petroglyph National Monument.
Krissy Clark April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Snowy plover predators become prey
On the coast of Oregon, federal agencies have decided to start poisoning and killing the predators that steal the eggs of endangered snowy plovers.
Rebecca Clarren April 1, 2002 From the print edition

April Fools

April Fools
Western Runaround, Klunk and HotFlashes give useful information about the West, which can be rather a silly place.
Staff and John Clayton April 1, 2002 From the print edition

Letters

Emery County's late-lamented heritage
Gary George April 1, 2002 From the print edition
NRA: Get the lead out, and lead
Pat Munday April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Evans a liberal Republican
Bob Keller April 1, 2002 From the print edition
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