Magazine
June 9, 2003
A life-threatening stroke in Idaho’s Craters of the Moon National Monument puts the author’s fight for wilderness into perspective. Also in this issue: Frustrated by Utah’s anti-wilderness moves, the national outdoor-equipment industry threatens to move its twice-yearly giant Outdoor Retailer show out of Salt Lake City.
Feature
A life-threatening stroke in Idaho’s Craters of the
Moon National Monument puts the author’s fight for wilderness
into perspective
Essays
There are as many ways to look at the West as there are
lookers, as this special issue’s six essays
demonstrate
Guiding tours in the West for the ultra-rich can be more
than a little surreal
An ardent conservationist remembers her childhood in a
California timber town that cut itself out of existence
A writer talks about seeing the West as an archaeologist,
and unearthing what’s "good and right"
The writer loves Western highways even more than he hates
them, especially in summer when his gas-pedal foot gets
twitchy
An artist writes about learning to love the less-dramatic
landscapes of the West
A New Mexico rancher takes a stand against out-of-control
oil and gas development
Dear Friends
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News
Frustrated by Utah’s anti-wilderness moves, the
national outdoor-equipment industry threatens to move its
twice-yearly giant Outdoor Retailer show out of Salt Lake
City
Congress exempts military from Endangered Species Act;
Fish and Wildlife Service approves mining project in
Montana’s Cabinet Mountains Wilderness; New Mexico lets
Phelps Dodge post "corporate pledge" in lieu of bond for three
open-pit copper mines; and G
The Forest Service’s new management plan for
California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument encourages
logging
The Park Service will cut millions of dollars in trail and
building repairs to cover its share of the "war on
terror"
A judge’s ruling against expansion of
Mammoth-Yosemite Airport may slow down plans to turn
California’s Mammoth Mountain Ski Area into a destination
resort
Colorado’s Delta County commissioners back down in
the fight against Gunnison Energy’s planned coalbed methane
wells
A Forest Service project to thin trees in New
Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest is using money obtained
through the Clean Water Act
This summer, the National Park Service will unveil a
memorial to the American Indians who fought Custer at the Little
Bighorn
Calendar
Book Reviews
In Red Delta: Fighting for Life at the End of the
Colorado River, writer and photographer Charles Bergman
looks at what happens to the Colorado River once it flows into
Mexico
Barren, Wild and Worthless: Living in the
Chihuahuan Desert, Susan Tweit’s New Mexico memoir,
is back in print
InThe Glen Canyon Reader, editor
Matthew Barrett Gross collects 200 years’ worth of musings
about "the place no one knew" and the dam that buried it under Lake
Powell
A Road of Her Own: Women’s Journeys in the West is
an anthology of contemporary women’s adventures on the
road
In Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism,
Marion Nestle takes on the long and often shameful history of food
safety in the U.S.
Inside HCN
Heard Around the West
California Anti-Terrorism Information Center is scary;
polite police in Santa Fe; spotted owl babies in Oregon; Who is
Karl Rove?; ice cream but no spoons; cooking fire burns pot on
border; and "Sex Abstinence Week," more or less
Letters
The best memorial
The grief is real
Go Natives!
A better read
Happy Sounds in Arizona
Ray Ring's Wrong
