The disappearance of the Rocky Mountain locust -- which
once swarmed the Plains like a biblical plague, only to die out
entirely within decades -- holds serious lessons for
humanity
Magazine
February 3, 2003
The disappearance of the Rocky Mountain locust -- which once swarmed the Plains like a biblical plague, only to die out entirely within decades --- holds serious lessons for humanity. Also in this issue: The Bush administration rolls back a Clinton-era moratorium on RS 2477, a controversial old statute that some Western counties have used to claim designated roads in wilderness areas, parks and monuments.
Feature
Essays
In a small Western Colorado town, dark-skinned people
stand out with the clarity of bull’s-eyes.
Conversation
Martha Marks of Republicans for Environmental Protection
says conservatives have a duty to support conservation
Book Reviews
In The Black Rock Desert, writer William L. Fox and
photographer Mark Klett visit a remarkable corner of northeastern
Nevada
The history and impacts of dam removal are considered in
Watershed: The Undamming of America by Elizabeth Grossman and Dam
Removal: Science and Decision Making by the H. John Heinz III
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Mark Spragg's first novel, The Fruit of Stone, is the
story of a Western road trip that “runs like a hard back
road, gorgeous and tricky.”
In "Dummy Up and Deal," H. Lee Barnes gives readers a
chance to peek behind the scenes in Las Vegas’
casinos.
Writers on the Range
A talk with the patriarch of a large Mexican family leads
the writer to reconsider his former pro-immigration
stance
Heard Around the West
Future mayor caught in vandalism; discrimination against
rich private jets in Idaho; Denver’s National Western Stock
Show is bittersweet; 80-year-old great-grandmother runs marathons;
don’t kiss rattlesnakes; “ecoroofs” in Portland,
Ore.; “toys” from Cabe
Dear Friends
Survey results are in; HCN gets a makeover; new interns
Sierra Standish and Jess Toubman
News
The Bush administration rolls back a Clinton-era
moratorium on RS 2477, a controversial old statute that some
Western counties have used to claim designated roads in wilderness
areas, parks and monuments
BLM releases draft EIS on drilling in Alaska’s
National Petroleum Reserve; Pentagon plans more exemptions to
environmental laws; Terry Lynn Barton pleads guilty to Hayman Fire
arson; Interior gives green light to coal-fired plant near
Yellowstone; and st
The working-class community of Barrio Logan, on the edge
of downtown San Diego, successfully tackles a chrome-plating
business that produces dangerous chemicals
In the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, ranchers
and environmentalists are fighting plans to drill up to 65,000 new
coalbed methane wells
Albuquerque’s proposed community, Mesa del Sol, will
be the Southwest’s largest “green development”
– if it actually gets built
Rancher Pat Lyons, a Republican, is the new head of the
New Mexico State Land Office, and some environmentalists are
worried about his plans
Letters
Land-use story gave Oregon a bad rap
Oregon should put more land-use decisions in local
hands
Tourism is a vast improvement over mining
Mining, skiing leave labor in the dust
Amnesty for illegal immigrants
Republicans should take an honest look at Bush
Real environmentalists don't support immigration
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