Phoenix, Ariz., is determined to disprove the idea that
the West will someday run out of water and that every boom has to
come to an end
Magazine
June 12, 2006
Phoenix, Ariz., is determined to disprove the idea that the West will someday run out of water and that every boom has to come to an end. Also in this issue: Newly appointed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has a chance to use his deal-making abilities to bring change to the way Western public lands are managed.
Feature
Editor's Note
In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to
Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond warns about societies that
overreach themselves – a warning that southern Arizona, in
the midst of its tremendous real estate boom, ought to
heed
Essays
In today’s surrealistic world, where language exists
only to sell things, barren desert suburbs have names like "Lake
Forest" and "WillowDale," while a graveyard is called "Pleasant
Valley Cemetery."
Book Reviews
The revised edition of Peter Decker’s Old Fences,
New Neighbors examines the changes that population growth has
brought to remote Ouray County in western Colorado
In Along Navajo Trails, Will Evans
tells the stories of the Navajo Indians who came into his Shiprock
Trading Post during the first part of the last century
In the anthology Comeback Wolves, 50
Western writers talk about the complex emotional – and
practical – responses evoked by the return of this iconic
predator
Writers on the Range
Fishing is not the reason behind the decline of the
Northwest’s salmon; the desire for cheap hydroelectric power
is
News
Newly appointed Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has a
chance to use his deal-making abilities to bring change to the way
Western public lands are managed
Libby, Mont., asbestos victims now eligible for
disability; new wind-power farm to come to Colorado; New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson petitions to protect his state’s
roadless lands
The Gunnison sage grouse has been denied endangered
species protection, and biologists like Clait Braun fear the
species may be doomed
The Nez Perce Tribe is trying to combat global warming
– and make a few bucks – by planting trees for carbon
dioxide sequestration
The recent deaths of 10 wolves in eastern Arizona are a
wrenching example of everything that has gone wrong with the
troubled Mexican wolf recovery program
Two new companies have proposed building the largest solar
power plant in the world near Deming, N.M.
Heard Around the West
Running shoes for immigrants; farming fun; Red Delicious
apples weren’t; Utah’s only archaeology cop;
Fiasco’s Mexican Grill; Codes of the West for urban
newcomers
Dear Friends
HCN seeks new editor as Greg Hanscom
announces plans to leave; HCN goes to diversity
school
Letters
Uncommon Westerners
Wildlife conservation biologist Jenn Logan has a soft spot
for the less-glamorous endangered species like razorback suckers
and boreal toads
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