The Verde River is one of Arizona’s last
free-flowing stream, but environmental and local activists fear an
ambitious planned pipeline, designed to bring groundwater to the
growing Prescott area, will end up sucking the river dry
Magazine
May 14, 2007
Prescott and the Verde Valley fight out the future of one of the West's last free-flowing streams. Also in this issue: New Mexico looks to build its border industry by attracting suppliers for Mexican manufacturers across the border in Juarez.
Feature
Editor's Note
Sometimes it seems that only the impact of a severe
drought can get Westerners to work together on water
issues
Uncommon Westerners
Independent radio producers Catherine Stifter and jesikah
maria ross are trying to help the Sierra Nevada by preserving the
stories of the people who live there
Essays
Rebecca Stanfel always planned to take her young son
Andrew on wilderness expeditions, but the onslaught of illness has
taught her that nature can also be found much closer to
home.
Book Reviews
In Unnatural Landscapes, Ceiridwin Terrill travels to four
arid sites to show how scientists fight to protect indigenous
organisms from invasive species
British author Bella Pollen’s new novel, Midnight
Cactus, looks at Arizona’s border issues through the eyes of
an upper-class English newcomer who has left her executive husband
and sought refuge in a ghost town.
Writers on the Range
Skeptics, even irrational ones, probably once had a useful
evolutionary role to play in human communities, but in the face of
rapid climate change, they are becoming a fatal obstacle
As western Colorado begins to dance to the tune of a
brand-new energy boom, it’s good to remember that the last
one ended in a total bust
Heard Around the West
Library book sale gets ugly in Eugene; Satan is the
problem in Utah; advice on daffodils; nude man creates brief havoc
in McMinnville, Ore.; car theft thrives in the West; Snowmass
Mountain’s “smoke shacks” have to go
Dear Friends
HCN board meeting, potluck and intern reunion in Paonia;
visitors; postage increase unfair to small publications; farewell
to activist Jim Jontz
News
Santa Teresa, N.M., hopes to build its sluggish economy by
attracting industrial suppliers for the factories just across the
border in Mexico
In Idaho’s Magic Valley, cow capital of the
fourth-largest milk-producing state in the U.S., entrepreneurs are
hoping to cash in on all that manure by using anaerobic digesters
to convert it into energy
Two Weeks in the West
James M. Doohan heads to final frontier (briefly) from New
Mexico’s spaceport; northern spotted owls in trouble again;
Veterans Conservation Corps; drugged up and rehabbing in the
West
Letters
- Nevada lithium mine kicks off a new era of Western extraction
- ‘Wild Indian’ is much more than just an Indigenous film
- In Arizona, building a wall — and destroying a canyon
- Will the climate crisis tap out the Colorado River?
- All fracked up: A debut memoir wrestles with toxic masculinity in the oil fields
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