Magazine
Mending the Nets

February 2, 2004

Port Orford, Ore., is working hard to create a new kind of community-based, sustainable fisheries management for the over-fished ocean. Also in this issue: Environmentalists and immigration activists have a few doubts about President Bush’s proposed immigration reform policy.

Feature

Mending the Nets
Port Orford, Ore., is working hard to create a new kind of community-based, sustainable fisheries management for the over-fished ocean
Rebecca Clarren Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Sidebar

Would quotas save the seas, or just big business?
Some fishermen fear that individual fishing quotas are likely to enrich corporations at the expense of small fishermen, while doing little to help the oceans
Rebecca Clarren Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Wilderness areas for the ocean
Some fishermen and many environmentalists say the best way to create a healthy ocean is to set up "no-take marine reserves" – wilderness areas for fish
Rebecca Clarren Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
A new breed of marketers gives fishing towns a leg up
In some struggling fishing communities like Coos Bay, Ore., small companies like John Warner’s K-Lyn Fisheries LLC are buying fish locally from small-boat fishermen and selling it directly to big-city wholesalers
Rebecca Clarren Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Editor's Note

A plan for Spaceship Earth
President Bush’s space initiative will most likely come to nothing, but it reminds us that we need to get our own planet in order before we explore the galaxy
Paul Larmer Opinion Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

Saving a sacred lake: Zuni activist Pablo Padilla
Zuni Tribe member and law student Pablo Padilla helped lead a triumphant fight against a coal strip mine planned near Zuni Salt Lake in New Mexico, a site sacred to Native Americans
Hillary Rosner Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Essays

Generation gap
The environmental laws designed to protect nature for future generations may not survive this generation, unless things change
Laura Paskus Essay Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Indian poll power
NativeVote 2004 seeks to rally as many American Indians as possible to register and vote in the November election
Jodi Peterson Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Calendar
Staff Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Restoration evolution
In his new book, The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature, William R. Jordan III lays out a powerful vision for a new environmental ethic
Ali Macalady Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Renewable energy made simple
Rex Ewing?s book, Power with Nature: Solar and Wind Energy Demystified, is exactly what it claims to be: a practical, readable handbook on converting to renewable energy
Linda Masterson Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Does Wal-Mart really need our tax dollars?
More than a dozen Asian-owned local businesses in Denver are being driven out to make way for a taxpayer-subsidized Wal-Mart Supercenter, in a destructive pattern seen across the nation
Stacy Mitchell Essay Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West
Lonely Democrats in the West; antlers vs. hammocks; suburban bighorns; farting fish; fish on Prozac; Idaho potato vodka; and "6FU" Road
Betsy Marston Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
New Colorado interns Jodi Peterson and Alex Pasquariello; anatomical accuracy of Maryann Webster’s HCN cover painting
Matt Jenkins, Alex Pasquariello, Jodi Peterson Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

News

Immigration reform from Washington, DC
Environmentalists and immigration activists have a few doubts about President Bush’s proposed immigration reform policy
Tim Sullivan Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Follow-up
Logging to be allowed on California’s Giant Sequoia National Monument; rules relaxed on checking contents of containers shipped to WIPP; environmental and public health groups sue EPA for approving pesticides that harm wildlife; and Alaska’s National Petr
Laura Paskus Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Uranium mill or dump?
The White Mesa Ute Reservation near Blanding, Utah, is fighting a nearby International Uranium Corporation mill that some say is really a poorly disguised hazardous waste dump
Rosemary Winters Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Phelps Dodge looks to revive mining in the Copper State
Phelps Dodge wants to open a big copper mine near Safford, Ariz., but some critics say that the company’s planned land swap is a rip-off, and that the mine may have harmful environmental impacts
Mitch Tobin Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition

Letters

Take the initiative
Walt Minnick Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Questioning the New World Order
Miguel Flynn Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
Extinction is forever
Tom Meacham Feb. 2, 2004 From the print edition
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