Pete McGrail believes the volcanic basalt that underlies
the Columbia River Basin may hold a cure for global warming: carbon
sequestration.
Magazine
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
Editor's Note
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.
Uncommon Westerners
Ben Luce is no longer pulling his punches as he battles
for clean energy in New Mexico.
Essays
Jonathan Thompson learns to love guns – and to fear
them even more than he did before.
Book Reviews
In Courage for the Earth, editor Peter Matthiessen gathers
14 essays honoring the life and work of Rachel Carson.
In Best Stories of the American West, Volume I, series
editor Marc Jaffe gathers 20 very different stories by 20 very
different writers.
Writers on the Range
Steven Albert – like John Muir before him –
loves the thrill of climbing fourteeners, even if it’s
sometimes a guilty pleasure.
Alan Kesselheim wonders if rising gas prices and global
warming will one day turn our sprawling suburbs into empty ghost
towns.
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.
Dear Friends
Meet HCN in Salt Lake City; hasta la vista, Gretchen
Nicholoff; visitors; Robert Funkhouser dies; correction.
News
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.
In the Rocky Mountain West, old mining claims are suddenly
the newest real estate hot spots.
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.
Two Weeks in the West
Coal-mining is always a dangerous business; wild horse
problems in Nevada; biofuel boondoggle?; and biofuel bio the
numbers.
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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