In northern New Mexico, the Collaborative Forest
Restoration Program brings Hispanic loggers and Anglo
environmentalists together to work on creating healthy, sustainable
forests and rural economies
Magazine
October 30, 2006
In northern New Mexico, the innovative Collaborative Forest Restoration Program is bringing Hispanic loggers and Anglo environmentalists together to work on creating healthy, sustainable forests and rural economies. Also in this issue: Boosters of a Western primary hope it could give the Interior West a greater voice in the politics of Washington, D.C.
Feature
Sidebar
Mark Sardella’s nonprofit group Local Energy is
determined to heat local communities with biomass energy, created
by burning logging slash and millwaste from New Mexican
forests
Editor's Note
Longtime community activist and HCN
board member Luis Torres is delighted to see environmentalists and
loggers working together in the forests of his native northern New
Mexico
Uncommon Westerners
Laina Corazon Coit and her brother, Rick Chase, want to
create Colorado’s first natural burial ground and wildlife
refuge on the eastern prairie
Essays
The New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association’s Zia Rodeo
brings out all kinds of cowboys and cowgirls
Writers on the Range
The escape of 100 domestic elk from self-styled mountain
man Rex Rammell’s Idaho game farm shows up the foolishness of
the state’s permissive attitude toward the industry
Heard Around the West
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?; remembering (not
always kindly) Helen Chenoweth-Hage; guilt-trips and voting;
extreme fried food
Dear Friends
HCN board meeting in Missoula, Mont.;
visitors; correction
News
Boosters of a Western primary hope it could give the
Interior West a greater voice in the politics of Washington,
D.C.
If New Mexico’s 40-year-old Aamodt case is settled,
it will end centuries of wrangling over water use, but not
everybody is happy with how it’s ending
Two Weeks in the West
EPA tightens standards on soot exposure; New Mexico land
commissioner candidates clash; enviros can buy grazing permits in
Utah; trailers are trashed to make room for luxury homes; SunEdison
will build largest solar plant in the U.S. in Colorado’s San
Lui
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