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Sheep v. Sheep

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

Sheep v. Sheep
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.
Nathaniel Hoffman Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Loosening the grazing knot
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.
Paul Larmer Opinion Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

Spinner of yarns, maker of floats
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.
Ray Sikorski Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Essays

What’s it like to live in the West?
What’s it like to live in the West?
Brian Doyle answers the question “What’s it like to live in the West?” with exuberant poetry.
Brian Doyle Essay Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Portrait of the artist – as many young men
In Flight, Indian novelist Sherman Alexie paints a brilliant, disturbing, compassionate portrait of a gun-toting, time-traveling teenager.
T.K. Dalton Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

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.
Betsy Marston Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
New HCN employees include Online Editor Marty Durlin and Associate Publisher for Marketing Lisa Wolf Johnson; visitors.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

News

Underground movement
In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to fight a proposal for uranium mining.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
A downside to downing dams?
Removing dams is more a complex experiment than a panacea, as Arizona’s Fossil Creek shows.
Michelle Nijhuis Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
My, what a small family tree you have
In the Northern Rockies, gray wolves may be in danger of inbreeding.
Erin Halcomb Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Two Weeks in the West

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.
Jonathan Thompson Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition

Letters

The population bomb
Frosty Wooldridge Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
Fault lines
Wendell Duffield Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
He probably hates Johnny Cash, too
Tom Taylor Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
It's another disaster
Jim McMahon Oct. 1, 2007 From the print edition
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