As the West’s privately owned timberlands go up for
sale, small towns like Glenwood, Wash., are working to buy local
forests and manage them for the good of the community
Magazine
January 23, 2006
As the West’s privately owned timberlands go up for sale, small towns like Glenwood, Wash., are working to buy local forests and manage them for the good of the community. Also in this issue: The closing down of the Mohave Generating Station and the Black Mesa Mine are both a victory for environmentalists and Indian water activists, and an economic catastrophe for the Hopi and Navajo nations.
Feature
Sidebar
Statistics on timberlands
Editor's Note
As privately owned timberlands go up for sale around the
West, some communities are trying to find ways to keep their
forests from disappearing in a flood of development
Uncommon Westerners
Brian Moore has retrofitted his house in Phoenix, Ariz.,
to enable him to re-use water and live more sustainably
Book Reviews
In Requiem for the West, Roger Brown
laments the loss of soul and solitude in the small mountain towns
of the Colorado Rockies
In Cities in the Wilderness, former
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt makes an eloquent argument for
more enlightened federal land-use planning
Albuquerque private investigator Sonny Baca unravels a
series of nefarious plots in Rudolfo Anaya’s riveting mystery
Jemez Spring
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial
Landscape by Brian Hayes is a wonderfully conversational
explanation of everything one sees along the highway that
isn’t natural
Lesley Poling-Kempes tells the story of a legendary New
Mexico resort and its many lovers in her absorbing new book,
Ghost Ranch
Writers on the Range
A hunter and member of the National Rifle Association is
angry at the way the group puts gun ownership above roadless areas,
wildlife, and hunting
Heard Around the West
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; driver hit by
deer; Seattle vs. starlings; California criminal bear is killed;
Dave Freudenthal didn’t say it; salmon-flavored
soda
Dear Friends
New interns Sarah Gilman and Brett Wilkison; remembering
Robert E. "Bob" Wolf; HCN potluck in Tucson
News
The closing down of the Mohave Generating Station and the
Black Mesa Mine are both a victory for environmentalists and Indian
water activists, and an economic catastrophe for the Hopi and
Navajo nations
Petroglyph boulders moved for controversial Albuquerque
highway; Hilmar Cheese can drill "test well" for its wastewater;
Richard Pombo’s plan to fast-track oil shale stymied;
wilderness vs. helicopter skiing in Wyoming
Illegal killing of grizzlies seems to be increasing in the
Northern Rockies even as Interior Secretary Gale Norton announces
plans to take Yellowstone’s bears off the endangered species
list
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission finally releases
rules for implementing Amendment 37, the state’s renewable
standards law
Armed law enforcement officers prevented three
environmentalists, including 83-year-old Stewart Brandborg, from
attending a Forest Service press conference in Hamilton,
Mont.
The National Park Service’s new management plan for
the Grand Canyon river corridor allows continued motorized
access
With the elk population at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain
National Park out of control, wildlife managers are considering
bringing in four wolves to restore the balance
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