Wamsutter, Wyo., is a boomtown these days, but the town is
struggling to be a real community, instead of just a barracks for
the natural gas industry
Magazine
September 13, 2004
Wamsutter, Wyo., is a boomtown these days, but the town is struggling to be a real community, instead of just a barracks for the natural gas industry. Also in this issue: In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, the fear of West Nile Virus brings the controversy about spraying pesticides to a boil.
Feature
Sidebar
Some of Wamsutter’s citizens are briefly profiled: a
Baptist preacher, a couple of real estate entrepreneurs, a
café owner, the deputy sheriff, a bar owner, an oil-field
worker, the town librarian and a local Democrat
Editor's Note
Towns like Wamsutter, Wyo., may never be quaint and
charming, but they can lay claim to their own rough beauty once a
real community takes root
Uncommon Westerners
Joey Burns and John Convertino, along with the other
members of the band Calexico, create music that is thoroughly
rooted in the desert Southwest around Tucson, Ariz.
Essays
A wild bird helps teach a woman how to let go of the need
to own things
Book Reviews
In his anthology, God’s Country or Devil’s
Playground, editor Barney Nelson gathers together an eclectic mix
of the best nature writing from the Big Bend of Texas
A new documentary, Making Sense of Place:
Phoenix, the Urban Desert, uses the Arizona megalopolis
to show what happens when urban sprawl is unchecked
Writers on the Range
Only the federal government can find away to protect both
salmon and farmers in the Northwest’s Klamath River
watershed
Heard Around the West
Bowdlerizing books at the Layton library; Oregon cheese
not from Oregon; property rights – and wrongs – in
Delta, Colo.; bears and beer; Colorado coffee-creamer cubs; loving
guns in Montana; and prairie dogs vs. gas development
Dear Friends
HCN’s upcoming potluck is in Portland; new interns
Deanna Belch and Lissa James; and corrections
News
In Colorado and elsewhere in the West, the fear of West
Nile Virus brings the controversy about spraying pesticides to a
boil
Critics say an economic development initiative could suck
desert springs and rural counties dry
In November, Coloradans will have the chance to vote on a
citizen-proposed renewable-energy initiative, but the utilities are
working hard to defeat it
A proposed law would allow California commuters who drive
some hybrid vehicles to use the state’s carpool lanes, and
the CEO of Ford Motor Co. is not happy about it
Letters
Featured stories
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