Oregon was a pioneer in the 1970s, when the state enacted
far-reaching, innovative land-use planning regulations, but now
even some planning supporters say the regulations are due for some
revision
Magazine
November 25, 2002
As Oregon cities hit their urban growth boundaries, some say it's time to look at the 30-year old rules that govern development. Also in this issue: Congress may have turned to the right, but enviros claim victory at the state level.
Feature
Sidebar
Orenco Station, a new development in a suburb of Portland,
uses principles of the New Urbanism movement to create a vibrant,
livable community
Vancouver, Wash., has a rapidly growing population, many
of them people who can't afford to live where they work, across the
river in Portland, Ore.
Essays
A profile of Ed Marston, the outgoing publisher of High
Country News, describes his path from East Coast physics professor
to a small-town Colorado environmentalist publisher unusually
sympathetic to ranchers
The last whooping crane west of the Mississippi is dead,
and the skies of the West are poorer for the loss
Book Reviews
Drought has brought to light a long-submerged sculpture:
artist Robert Smithson's earthwork, "Spiral Jetty," in the Great
Salt Lake
The Wilderness Society has published two reports
criticizing the Bush administration's national energy
plan
The Portland Green Map lists 800 resources and points of
interests to guide Portland residents and visitors who lean
green
In his memoir of rural life in Alder Creek, Idaho, On All
Sides Nowhere, author William Gruber avoids the traps of
sentimentality and self-importance that so often infest the
genre
In Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of
America's Fresh Waters, author Robert Jerome Glennon gives an
absorbing account of the ways we use - and misuse - groundwater in
the United States
Writers on the Range
A lifetime spent in California demonstrates how our flight
from sprawl and development leads to more sprawl and development
wherever we go
Heard Around the West
Sky-diving pooch; attack ad goes after candidate's dog;
Warm Springs, Ore., holds "Rez Car Parade;" biggest pumkin still
grown in East, but Oregon grower catching up; censorship and
student journalism in Utah; and town may change name to "Got
Milk?"
Dear Friends
The changing of the guard: Ed Marston retires and Paul
Larmer takes helm at HCN; rural roots of HCN; 19 incredible years
at the paper; Our doors are open for a holiday open house
News
Ed Zuckerman of the Federation of State Voter Conservation
Leagues says environmentalists should not despair over the recent
elections, because grassroots conservation groups did very well at
the local level
Most green initiatives fail in West; a few bright spots;
"Indian vote" helped Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., but not George
Cordova in Arizona; Sen. Wayle Allard, R, re-elected in Colorado;
Dems gain 11 seats in Idaho; Northwest keeps to status
quo
The National Park Service gives up on trying to ban
snowmobiles from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national
parks
A new bill designates 450,000 acres of wilderness in
Nevada, but makes it easier for Las Vegas to grow by withdrawing
other land from wilderness consideration
A new report criticizes the BLM's handing of land swaps,
saying the process is "politicized" and results in the loss of
federal money and natural resources
A federal court rules that Pres. Clinton did, in fact,
have the authority to create six national monuments in four Western
states
Herbicide spread by BLM land managers on range near
Malaga, N.M., has washed into the Black River, contaminating a
diversion ditch and killing nearby farmers' crops and
trees
The luxurious WestRock Resort is now under construction,
90 miles north of Boise, despite continued opposition from
environmentalist and citizens' groups
Residents of the Canon City, Colo., suburb of Lincoln Park
are fighting the proposed delivery of radioactive soil from a New
Jersey Superfund site to the Cotter Corp. uranium mill
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