In the little-seen world of immigrant farmworkers,
pesticides are a constant threat — and for the workers, the
only options are shutting up or getting out
Magazine
September 29, 2003
The pesticides used in orchards and farm fields in places like eastern Washington endanger the health – and even the lives – of immigrant farm workers. Also in this issue: While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction.
Feature
Sidebar
The effects of pesticides on farmworker children are often
overlooked, because children are not supposed to work in the fields
in the first place
The Bailey family’s efforts to take care of its
orchard workers in The Dalles, Ore., have earned it certification
from The Food Alliance
Pesticides that endanger farmworkers are used to grow
common foods like apples, potatoes and asparagus
Editor's Note
It’s high time for the environmental movement to
join with farmworker activists in their fight for fair treatment
and protection from dangerous pesticides
Book Reviews
In Albuquerque: A City at the End of the
World, V. B. Price looks at the promise and the perils of
a desert city that is still in search of an identity
The Citizen’s Guide to Colorado Water
Law by the nonprofit Colorado Foundation for Water
Education gives a clear and simple overview of water in the
state
In her biography, Viola Martinez, California
Paiute: Living in Two Worlds, Diana Meyers Bahr shares
the life story of a remarkable American Indian woman
Writers on the Range
A Montana pilot flies a fire spotter over the western part
of the state in one of the worst fire seasons she’s ever
known
Montana’s two varieties of sturgeon, the white and
the pallid, have just been given an expiration date, and human
beings should be paying more attention to this extinction
Heard Around the West
Trouble at Burning Man; take your prostate to the County
Fair; spotted knapweed kills its rivals; what happens to
"liberated" mink; what to do when a bear attacks you; exploding
pigs; "scratch ‘n’ sniff" for city folks
Dear Friends
New interns Pua Mench and Josh Garrett-Davis; Redlodge
Clearinghouse; Visitors from afar
News
While Congress debates whether Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt
should take over the Environmental Protection Agency, the agency
itself plows ahead in an anti-environmental direction
Sandpoint, Idaho, business owners oppose Cabinet Mountains
copper mine; Wyo. Gov. Dave Freudenthal jumps on coalbed methane
bandwagon; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells agencies to police
themselves; and Columbia River dredging delayed again
In Idaho’s Panhandle region, the Potlatch Corp. is
negotiating conservation easements on as much as 600,000 acres of
forest, but not all conservationists are thrilled at the
prospect
The Bush administration cuts a deal with Wyoming rancher
Harvey Frank Robbins Jr., and orders the Worland BLM office to back
off on enforcing grazing regulations
Local ranchers and farmers in southern Colorado’s
San Luis Valley are working to restore the Alamosa River, site of
the infamous Summitville mine cyanide spill
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