Black Range District Fire Manager Toby Richards is
returning fire to its natural place on New Mexico’s Gila
National Forest – and leading the charge for Fire Use in the
West.
Magazine
November 8, 2004
A new generation of fire managers works with fire, rather than just fighting it. Also in this issue: Ski bums try to survive in Ketchum, Idaho; the Sierras get a conservancy, and a river gnaws away at a tribal reservation
Feature
Editor's Note
The National Network of Forest Practitioners restores
forests and streams while creating sustainable jobs in local
communities
Uncommon Westerners
Veterinarian Kathleen Ramsay founded The Wildlife Center
in Espanola, N.M., to treat and rehabilitate sick and injured
wildlife
Essays
There’s nothing like a trip to Europe to make an
American appreciate living in a country that still has
wilderness.
Book Reviews
The Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a new Colorado
nonprofit, is taking a local approach to the global problem of
climate change
Wyoming writer Mark Spragg’s new novel, An
Unfinished Life, explores the universal territory of a
fractured family’s life
Writers on the Range
Despite its name, the Farm Bureau doesn't care much for
farmers.
Heard Around the West
Friendly moose killed; San Juan Horseshoe spoofs hunters;
not an "easy to moderate" mountain climb in Wyoming; meteorite
drops in; persnickety about pumpkins in Puyallup; hit-and-run by
clown at Burning Man Festival
Dear Friends
Election results will be in the next issue; Auden
Schendler makes electricity in Snowmass, Colo.; visitors
News
Judge Clarence Brimmer strikes down Clinton's ban on
snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, but
another lawsuit may still bring limits on traffic
Owyhee Canyonlands wilderness comes closer to Idaho; Bush
funds CALFED; oil and gas brings money to Rocky Mountain states;
National Wildlife Federation says federal Conservation Reserve
Program is abused
California creates the Sierra Nevada Conservancy in order
to funnel state money toward buying and protecting land in the
region
The tiny Hoh Indian Reservation on the northwestern coast
of Washington is in danger of being washed away by its namesake
river
Young people in booming Ketchum, Idaho, struggle to make a
living and find an affordable place to stay
Letters
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