Magazine
The Great Salt Lake Mystery

April 29, 2002

The brine-shrimp industry of Great Salt Lake has helped put that misunderstood ecosystem under a microscope; can the lake be saved from its history of abuse and a rapidly increasing population around it?

Feature

The Great Salt Lake Mystery
The brine-shrimp industry of Great Salt Lake has helped put that misunderstood ecosystem under a microscope; can the lake be saved from its history of abuse and a rapidly increasing population around it?
Tim Westby April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Sidebar

Suburbanites compete for the lake's freshwater
Activists continue to fight against dams on the Bear River, one of three sources that feed Utah's Great Salt Lake, in their push for stricter water conservation along the Wasatch Front.
Matt Jenkins April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Lake stops sprawl in its tracks ... for now
Environmentalists and SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson denounce the Legacy Highway, a disputed 14-mile road that would connect Salt Lake City to Farmington, arguing that it would destroy wetlands, encourage sprawl, and degrade the Front's already murky air.
Tim Westby April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Essays

Muscle car of the prairie
The writer reminisces about the time he was a teen-age boy and encountered "nature" with Leviathan, his 1966 Pontiac LeMans, on the plains east of Aurora, Colo., which he discovered was a place of rugged beauty.
Jeff P. Jones Essay April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Mountainfilm
This year's Mountainfilm festival, held May 24-27 in Telluride, Colo., features 25 films that celebrate mountains and the people who love them.
Julie Elliott April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Sagebrush artistry
In "Living in the Country Growing Weird," Nevada potter Dennis Parks celebrates his exit from the rat race by conveying the challenges of rural existence.
Crystal Mustric April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Sprawl is in the numbers
A study by Numbers USA, "Weighing Sprawl Factors in Large U.S. Cities," analyzes relative contributions of land-use decisions and population growth to sprawl in the nation's 100 largest urbanized areas.
Sarah Wright April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Fateful harvest a scary read
Duff Wilson's book, "Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret," investigates a local agricultural chemicals provider who attempted to pass toxic waste off as recycled fertilizer.
Ali Macalady April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Wildlife Saloon
Wildlife such as deer, elk and bighorn sheep can find water using an artificial reservoir, the "Wildlife Saloon," a new invention developed by Cedaredge, Colo., geologist Greg Hunt.
Ed Marston April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Leave my town out of your 'Top 10'
When an article appears in Men's Journal proclaiming his home town in the "top 10" of best places to live, the author can't understand what criteria the decision was based on.
Rob Marin Opinion Essay April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Alligators on treadmills embarrass researchers; Colorado's state mineral must be right color; Montana coyote hunter shoots up plane's wing; ticked-off bees attack in Oregon; Basalt, Colo., turns down second-home buyers; 107-year-old Jessie Reimers of Lewi
Betsy Marston April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Busy ex-interns; staffers clean up adopted Highway 133; former intern David Havlick and HCN associate journalist Niels Sparre Nokkentved publish books; new senior editor Lolly Merrell; European readers critical of wolf management.
Paul Larmer April 29, 2002 From the print edition

News

Zion's geriatric cottonwoods
Cottonwood trees in Utah's Zion National Park may vanish in the next few decades, according to a study by the park and the Grand Canyon Trust that recommends removal of flood-protection stone levees as a way to save the trees.
Krissy Clark April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Wilted West staggers into summer
The fourth year of a crippling drought throughout the West is potential for trouble, not only for farmers, but wildlife and the human population, as well.
Sarah Wright April 29, 2002 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
Off-roaders in the Mojave Desert must yield to desert tortoises; BLM reverses its ban on four-wheelers in California's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area; Forest Service denies Boy Scout camp on White River Forest near Aspen; Forest Service cancels Eagle
Rebecca Clarren April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Are Wyoming's feedgrounds a hotbed of disease?
Conservation groups want to phase out 23 elk feedgrounds managed by the state, claiming they are expensive breeding grounds for disease.
Karen Mockler April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Bush will edit NW Forest Plan
The Bush administration aims to overhaul the Clinton-bred forestry plan, and environmentalists pledge to oppose efforts to dilute it.
Michael Milstein April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Griz ordered to get scarce
Several communities surrounding Yellowstone National Park have passed regulations banning grizzlies, wolves and other "unacceptable species," even though the laws are unenforceable.
Karen Mockler April 29, 2002 From the print edition

Letters

Outlandish slaughter
John Lavin April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Native crops for the niche West
Ed Kleiner April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Sibley said it for me
Ron Thompson April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Under charter plan, forests would fall
Michael Closson April 29, 2002 From the print edition
But, can they reproduce?
Kara Damon April 29, 2002 From the print edition
'Sense of place' bought and sold
Tim Holmen April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Re: 'Looking for the good'
Nick Rust April 29, 2002 From the print edition
Roslyn development update
Ellie Belew April 29, 2002 From the print edition
High Country News Classifieds