Magazine
A New Green Revolution

December 26, 2005

In Montana’s dying farm country, "vanguard agriculture" is putting people back to work on the land. Also in this issue: Concerned citizens overflow a meeting in Delta, Colo., as a crucial deadline for protecting roadless areas in national forests nears.

Feature

A New Green Revolution
In Montana’s dying farm country, "vanguard agriculture" is putting people back to work on the land
Sam Western Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Sidebar

Universities lag on organics
Montana’s land-grant universities have so far shown little interest in promoting organic agriculture
Sam Western Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Organics and biofuels bring independence
More Montana farmers are starting to raise oilseed crops and produce their own biofuels to save on energy costs
Sam Western Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Thanks to the farmers
Supporting sustainable, local, organic food production is one way to reduce our ecological impact and restore the West’s rural communities
Greg Hanscom Opinion Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

The ranch wife, reinvented
Andrea Malmberg of Wyoming’s Twin Creek Ranch uses her gourmet cooking to put her ranch guests in touch with the land and with the food they eat
Kerry Brophy Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Essays

Backcountry Ranger
Backcountry seasonal ranger Tony Prendergast has spent much of the past six summers working in western Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest
JT Thomas Essay Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Politics, prejudice and predators
In Predatory Bureaucracy, Michael J. Robinson traces the history of the U.S. Biological Survey, particularly its war on wolves
Lee Ross Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
A natural and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains
Gary Ferguson explores the history and culture of the backbone of the West in The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind
Stephen J. Lyons Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
The Sum of our Past: Revisiting Pioneer Women
In The Sum of Our Past, Judy Busk weaves personal memoir and historical research together as she retraces the Mormon and Oregon Trails in the modern "covered wagon" of her van
Staff Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
The Pictograph Murders
The Pictograph Murders by P.G. Karamesines, combines archaeology, witchcraft and murder in a chilling first novel set in Utah
Staff Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Scandal and war fracture conservative coalition
The war in Vietnam destroyed a long-lasting liberal coalition; now, political scandals and the war in Iraq are threatening the conservative coalition that took its place
Rich Wandschneider Essay Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Evolution Amber Ale; wolves, bears and elk in Yellowstone; Starbucks vs. Sambuck’s; cows adopt an elk; PETA vs. your daddy the fisherman
Betsy Marston Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
Happy Holidays from HCN; festive recipes; Juan Butron wins award
Jodi Peterson Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

News

Roadless forest plans draw crowds — and lawsuits
Concerned citizens overflow a meeting in Delta, Colo., as a crucial deadline for protecting roadless areas in national forests nears
Matt Jenkins Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
The Latest Bounce
Who rewrote Park Service’s management policies?; judge permits building of U.S.-Mexico border fence; Superintendent David Hunsaker leaves Utah’s Escalante National Monument; judge says Forest Service blew his ruling out of proportion
Jodi Peterson Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
A desperate move to protect cattle ranchers
Wyoming Game and Fish plans to test feedgrounds elk and slaughter any that are infected with brucellosis in order to keep the disease from spreading to cattle
Brodie Farquhar Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Where have all the rangers gone?
Budget crunches have thinned Forest Service staffing even as visitor numbers soar, making it hard to enforce regulations such as trail closures
Michelle Burkhart Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Bipartisan uprising sinks public-lands selloff
Reps. Richard Pombo’s and Jim Gibbons’ controversial proposal to sell off public lands was pulled after both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and citizens rallied against it
Ray Ring Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Energy companies score massive refund checks
A federal judge has ordered the government to buy back offshore oil and gas leases that energy companies say can’t be developed, leading some to wonder if the BLM will have to do the same with leases in potential wilderness areas
Matt Jenkins Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition

Letters

The Pombo petting zoo
Doug Troutman Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Celebrating Denver's future
David H. Carroll Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Belief versus science
Ken Frederick Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Putting God in the equation
Neil Snyder Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Waiting for Santa Claus in Wyoming
Al Hamburg Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
The Klamath's true story
Michael Aune Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
Wilderness access for all
Ed Rosenberg Dec. 26, 2005 From the print edition
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