As private lands become the new frontier in the
West’s wild real estate frenzy, ranchers are turning to land
trusts in places like Gunnison, Colo., to find out how to hold on
to their land and keep it open and undeveloped
Magazine
March 29, 2004
As private lands become the new frontier in the West’s wild real estate frenzy, ranchers are turning to land trusts in places like Gunnison, Colo., to find out how to hold on to their land and keep it open and undeveloped. Also in this issue: California decides to set its own new "public health goal" for perchlorate contamination, but critics point out that it is both legally unenforceable and lower than the previous goal.
Feature
Sidebar
Carl Palmer hopes to make his Adobe Ranch in California an
economic success to prove that open space can be financially as
well as environmentally valuable
Studies by Montana’s Andrew Hansen and
Colorado’s Rick Knight offer some of the first scientific
evidence that preserving ranch lands provides important benefits to
surrounding ecosystems
Editor's Note
Environmentalists and ranchers should quit arguing about
public-lands grazing and work together with the land trust movement
to save the land we all love
Book Reviews
In their new book, An Air That Kills, reporters Andrew
Schneider and David McCumber tell the shocking story of how
asbestos poisoned Libby, Mont., and continues to harm the
nation
In The Raccoon Next Door: Getting Along With Urban
Wildlife, wildlife rehabilitation expert Gary Bogue offers helpful
advice on how to live with all kinds of wild creatures
Perspective
Democrats can learn a thing or two from the way Bush and
the conservative Republicans are using political power
Writers on the Range
The West’s endless tug-of-war between scenery and
resources is brought into dramatic focus at Colorado’s Black
Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
News
California decides to set its own new "public health goal"
for perchlorate contamination, but critics point out that it is
both legally unenforceable and lower than the previous
goal
John Kerry vs. Barbara Cubin and Richard Pombo on oil; FBI
arrests William Jensen Cottrell for California SUV arson; and
Forest Service paid public relations firm $90,000 for "Forests With
a Future" campaign and slogan
In New Mexico, ranchers like Tweeti Blancett are working
with environmentalists to keep oil and gas drillers away from Otero
Mesa
Heard Around the West
Wandering sea lion; off-roading over geysers; Blizzard of
1049; Wyoming’s got money; bowling for meteorites; Lake Mead
is shrinking; and controversial books at the public
library
Dear Friends
Wallace Stegner Center celebrates 40th birthday of
Wilderness Act; Casper Star-Tribune’s Charles Levendosky
dies; visitors Stanley Dodson, Dorothy Kehmeier, Jim Low;
correction on Pahreah townsite photos
Letters
Uncommon Westerners
New Mexico’s Harlan McKosato sees his radio show,
Native America Calling, as an "electronic talking circle" that
helps build bridges between cultures
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