Magazine
June 25, 2007
The group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife has helped to protect a lot of Western land and wildlife – while doing its best to kill off as many predators as possible.
Feature
The group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife has helped to
protect a lot of Western land and wildlife – while doing its
best to kill off as many predators as possible
Uncommon Westerners
Jeremias Pink fixes up bikes and gives them away because
he loves his town, Pocatello, Idaho
Essays
Hunters have done a huge amount over the years to preserve
wildlife and habitat, but the powerful group Sportsmen for Fish and
Wildlife, with its obsessive focus on killing predators, seems to
be taking a step backward
Great Falls, Mont., suffers from the Ugly Stepsister
Syndrome, a cognitive disorder that makes it willing to trade a
Lewis and Clark historic landmark for a dirty coal-fired power
plant
Dear Friends
HCN skips an issue; HCN’s first-ever Paonia intern
reunion; goat-packing and high-flying visitors
News
The residents of McCloud, Calif., a struggling former
timber town, are fighting over whether corporate giant Nestle
should be allowed to build a bottling plant that makes use of the
local spring water
New Mexico’s traditional chile industry faces hot
competition from global producers
Book Reviews
Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering
and Politics is as deep and erudite a tome as it sounds, and yet
also a surprisingly good read
In At Speed: Traveling the Long Road Between Two Points,
W. Scott Olsen celebrates the world as seen through a
windshield
Heard Around the West
“Goat Insurance” in Idaho; organic is blooming
in Washington; scary big black rifles are in; don’t shoot the
cleaners; pardon my typo
Letters
Two Weeks in the West
On the messy bureaucratic soap opera As Interior Turns,
the cast keeps changing, and getting indicted; Good Samaritans need
to able to clean up old mines without getting burned; foreign
countries drive Western mining boom; and data about
mining
- John W Stephens on Latest: California fracking companies inject protected aquifers with wastewater
- Kent Schoberle on Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
- Rich & Terry Fairbanks on Rural communities in the West need a fair shake
- on Jim Deacon, pioneering desert fish biologist, dies
- Larry Bullock on Ranch Diaries: A New Mexico cattle company is born
