Migratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives across the
West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty
parasite and a mysterious disorder are making life much harder for
John and his buzzing business partners.
Magazine
March 19, 2007
Migratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives back and forth across the West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty little parasite called the varroa mite and the mysterious, deadly Colony Collapse Disorder are making life much harder for him and his buzzing business partners.
Feature
Editor's Note
This issue of High Country News features Hannah Nordhaus on the challenges facing a Western migratory beekeeper and his hives of pollinating bees.
Uncommon Westerners
Ecologist Stephan Buchmann is crazy about bees, and his
Tucson-based one-man nonprofit, The Bee Works, is simply buzzing
with activity.
Essays
The noisy contrast between snowmobiles and cross-country
skis awakens the author to the similar contrast between the life
she has always wanted and the one she currently has with her
partner, Billy.
Book Reviews
In The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from
the Mojave to the Antarctic, Lucy Jane Bledsoe chases her
own wild fears across the landscape in search of a state of
grace.
Law professor Eric Freyfogle castigates the environmental
movement and offers straightforward advice in Why
Conservation is Failing and How It Can Regain
Ground.
Heard Around the West
Something’s fishy in California; dolphins do Rambo;
big bad wolf wasn’t wild; conspicuous consumption in Boulder;
déjà vu all over again in Interior Department; ski bum is
dead, long live ski bums; not everything stays in Vegas.
Dear Friends
Visitors; Las Vegas writer and historian Hal Rothman dies;
farewell to Dolores LaChapelle and Ed LaChapelle
News
Retired BLM agent Lynell Schalk goes head-to-head with her
former bosses over protecting southern Utah’s priceless
archaeological sites from off-road vehicle traffic.
Gov. Schwarzenegger says “Hasta la vista” to a
long-planned California high-speed rail line – at least for
the moment.
Two Weeks in the West
Western governors go green; King Coal gets hammered;
Divine Strake strikes out; Colorado cons on the North Forty; Mother
Nature’s bodyguards; Western wagering data; and energy use
and Bush approval: a case of eerie symmetry.
Letters
- Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield
- A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
- New bill would permanently protect 130,000 acres of Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
- How the Supreme Court upended a century of federal Indian law
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