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A Climate Change Solution?

September 3, 2007

Pete McGrail believes the volcanic basalt that underlies the Columbia River Basin may hold a cure for global warming: carbon sequestration.

Feature

A Climate Change Solution?
Pete McGrail believes the volcanic basalt that underlies the Columbia River Basin may hold a cure for global warming: carbon sequestration.
Valerie Brown Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Letter imperfect
Some of the more heated responses to Ray Ring’s gun story show a certain ignorance of general constitutional principles, but HCN loves letters and is already looking forward to readers’ reactions to the current issue’s story on carbon sequestration.
John Mecklin Opinion Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

Clean energy activist reflects on corporate influence in New Mexico legislation
Ben Luce is no longer pulling his punches as he battles for clean energy in New Mexico.
Laura Paskus Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Essays

Gunning with the in-laws
Jonathan Thompson learns to love guns – and to fear them even more than he did before.
Jonathan Thompson Essay Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Sounding the alarm for nature
In Courage for the Earth, editor Peter Matthiessen gathers 14 essays honoring the life and work of Rachel Carson.
Marilyn Stone Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Twenty views of the West
In Best Stories of the American West, Volume I, series editor Marc Jaffe gathers 20 very different stories by 20 very different writers.
Shawn Dean Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

The good and bad of peak-bagging
Steven Albert – like John Muir before him – loves the thrill of climbing fourteeners, even if it’s sometimes a guilty pleasure.
Steven Albert Essay Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Are tomorrow’s ghost towns sprouting today?
Alan Kesselheim wonders if rising gas prices and global warming will one day turn our sprawling suburbs into empty ghost towns.
Alan Kesselheim Essay Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West
Santa Fe coyotes replaced by mountain lions; cat problems in Colorado; bunny restraining order in Oregon; dead snakes bite back; mysterious things in a dead bird’s tummy.
Jonathan Thompson Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
Meet HCN in Salt Lake City; hasta la vista, Gretchen Nicholoff; visitors; Robert Funkhouser dies; correction.
Jodi Peterson and Paul Larmer Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

News

A dustup over weed control
Some environmentalists are unhappy about the BLM’s plans to spray herbicides for weed control, but many public-land managers say it’s the only way to tackle the invasion of flammable weeds.
Eve Rickert Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
The new land rush
In the Rocky Mountain West, old mining claims are suddenly the newest real estate hot spots.
Erin Halcomb and Jonathan Thompson Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Border restoration’s odd couple
In southwestern Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol is working with Cocopah Indians and environmentalists to restore a degraded, crime-ridden wetland called Hunters Hole.
Morgan Heim Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Two Weeks in the West

Two weeks in the West
Coal-mining is always a dangerous business; wild horse problems in Nevada; biofuel boondoggle?; and biofuel bio the numbers.
Jonathan Thompson Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition

Letters

Beer drinkers = radical drunken fanatics?
Jeffrey Reid Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
A gun culture bibliography
Mary Zeiss Stange Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
It's a privilege, not a right
Ted Vanegas Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Non-negotiable self-defense
Timothy Curry Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Liberal and armed
Stephen Bodio Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Reining in the zealots
Thad Adkins Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
The NRA - a branch of the ACLU?
Jesse Michael Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Low Country News
Matt Bunch Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
The world laughs with us
Tyler Groo Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Questioning our questioning
D.B. Cameron, DVM Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Won't you be my (solar) neighbor?
Dan Rathmann Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Karl Malone's next vacation home
Chris Carrier Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
They're probably afraid of the dark, too
Dick Carter Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Wolf lit 101
Mark Doherty Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
Owl right, we'll try
Glenn Himebaugh Sept. 3, 2007 From the print edition
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