The native-seeds business is thriving, as more Westerners
realize the value of a healthy rangeland, but the current
unfriendly political climate in Washington, D.C., may bring an
untimely frost
Magazine
May 12, 2003
The native-seeds business is thriving, as more Westerners realize the value of a restored and healthy rangeland, but the current unfriendly political climate in Washington, D.C., may bring an untimely frost. Also in this issue:The Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework is being dismantled under the Bush administration, and California spotted owls, denied protection as endangered species, may pay the price.
Feature
Sidebar
In Arizona, Peabody Western Coal is working with Navajo
and Hopi Indians to reclaim its coal mines using culturally
valuable native plants
Editor's Note
It is possible for human beings to live sustainably in the
West, and native seeds may help to point the way
Essays
A journey in search of New Mexico’s fabled pinon
nuts finds them falling victim to drought and beetles
Book Reviews
Earthtones: A Nevada Album pairs essays
by Ann Ronald with photos by Stephen Trimble to celebrate the
beauty of an austere landscape
A new report by the BLM and the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory details the opportunities for renewable energy
development on Western public lands
In Crossing Divides: A Couple’s Story of
Cancer, Hope, and Hiking Montana’s Continental
Divide, Scott Bischke describes how he and his wife,
Katie Gibson, refused to let her illness keep them from their
beloved outdoors
A new label from the Marine Stewardship Council and a
pocket guide from California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium help
consumers pick out sustainably harvested seafood
Writers on the Range
Iraq has a chance to restore its fabled Mesapotamia
Marshes, just as America could revive its own Colorado River
Delta
Heard Around the West
Misprint confuses wolves with wives; "peace threats;" Sen.
Scott McInnis denounces French-made tombstone; "Aspen Pure" water
doesn’t come from Aspen; Utah mayor wasn’t kidnapped;
Colorado Central spoofs real estate ads; "Chateau de Plateau;" Old
Faithful
Dear Friends
Two weeks to redesign launch; HCN’s April
Fool’s succeeds in fooling Dubois; corrections: national
monuments have been overturned
News
The Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework is being
dismantled under the Bush administration, and California spotted
owls, denied protection as endangered species, may pay the
price
Animas-La Plata dam building begins; fish appreciate
removal of Washington’s Goldsborough Creek dam; 11th Mexican
gray wolf killed in Arizona; lamprey denied endangered status;
"stop work" order at Yucca Mountain ignored; and National Park
Service critici
Washington’s 194-member Stillaguamish Tribe has
demolished its only village to make room for a casino, but now the
casino’s financiers are under investigation, and the
tribe’s gaming permit is in limbo
The Navajo Nation has said no to legalized gambling, but
under Arizona’s new Proposition 202, the tribe may benefit
from gambling on other reservations
Utah has dropped its threatened lawsuit over the control
of backcountry roads, but the agreement the state made with the
federal government casts a cloud over future wilderness
protection
American Indians have denounced a recent report defending
the Interior Department’s trust account
transactions
California’s Williamson Act, a 40-year-old
farmland-protection program, may be a casualty of the state’s
huge budget deficit
Phelps Dodge Corporation is at loggerheads with
environmentalists and the state of New Mexico over plans to clean
up the Chino Mine, an open-pit copper mine near Silver
City
Colorado State Treasurer Mike Coffman wants to use funds
earmarked for historic preservation to promote tourism
instead
Letters
Ranches: Wildlands or scenery
Wilderness would have been better for ranchers
Stay divided, and the land may fall
There are plenty of places for bicycling
Leave wilderness to llamas
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