Bighorn sheep and longtime sheep ranchers face off in
Hells Canyon, where a legal battle over public-lands grazing could
cause ripples across the West.
Magazine
October 1, 2007
Bighorn sheep and longtime sheep ranchers face off in Hells Canyon, where a legal battle over public-lands grazing could cause ripples across the West.
Feature
Editor's Note
A showdown in Idaho pits bighorn sheep lovers against
longtime sheep ranchers, but if people are willing to work
together, this grazing knot can be untied.
Uncommon Westerners
Black George Simmons – an 84-year-old park volunteer
with a flair for colorful stories – dishes out root beer
floats to anyone who visits his tiny log cabin in Grand Teton
National Park.
Essays
Brian Doyle answers the question “What’s it
like to live in the West?” with exuberant poetry.
Book Reviews
In Flight, Indian novelist Sherman Alexie paints a
brilliant, disturbing, compassionate portrait of a gun-toting,
time-traveling teenager.
Heard Around the West
Flying fish in Colorado; bears are such slobs; berserk
llamas and bad-tempered snakes; poachers behaving badly in New
Mexico; your opinion on snowmobiles doesn’t matter; brothels
and babies don’t mix; fishing with rat glue in
Oregon.
Dear Friends
New HCN employees include Online Editor Marty Durlin and
Associate Publisher for Marketing Lisa Wolf Johnson;
visitors.
News
In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to
fight a proposal for uranium mining.
Removing dams is more a complex experiment than a panacea,
as Arizona’s Fossil Creek shows.
In the Northern Rockies, gray wolves may be in danger of
inbreeding.
Two Weeks in the West
Wilderness bills are coming back to life, especially one
that would protect Arizona’s Tumacacori Highlands; a lot of
things besides windmills are killing birds.
Letters
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