Magazine
Cat Fight on the Border

October 15, 2007

Plans to fence as much as possible of the U.S.-Mexico border could derail the return of rare jaguars to the Southwest.

Feature

Cat Fight on the Border
Plans to fence as much as possible of the U.S.-Mexico border could derail the return of rare jaguars to the Southwest.
Jeremy Voas Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Bordering on crazy
The ill-conceived attempt to fence as much as possible of the U.S.-Mexico border will have disastrous impacts on wildlife, including Arizona’s elusive jaguars.
John Mecklin Opinion Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Essays

RV Nation
On a Western road trip, Evelyn Spence ponders the peculiar names – and increasing numbers – of gigantic RVs.
Evelyn Spence Essay Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

Nothing out there can be a very good thing
Julianne Couch surveys the vastness of Wyoming’s Adobe Town badlands and hopes that oil and gas drilling does not invade its beautiful emptiness.
Julianne Couch Essay Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard Around the West
Glen Canyon Dam’s image problem; riding the SLUT; coal-train pit crews; regulating a very peculiar hallucinogenic plant; poison ivy loves global warming; humongous fungus in Oregon.
Betsy Marston Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
Visits from a forester, a farmer, a family and more; clarification and corrections.
Jodi Peterson Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

News

Seeds of change
Land managers working on post-fire restoration in Utah have to battle invasive cheatgrass in their efforts to bring back the native sagebrush.
Eve Rickert Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
Eminent domain’s poster children
Eminent domain’s poster children
Ranchers in southeastern Colorado are fighting the Army, which wants to expand its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.
Eryn Gable Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
Salvaging the atmosphere
The Forest Service jumps into the carbon offsets game even as scientists begin to question whether planting trees can help in the struggle against global warming.
Rick Craig Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Two Weeks in the West

Two weeks in the West
California’s continuing water troubles; saving water for the Delta smelt; New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici to retire; Idaho grizzly shot; polygamous community in the spotlight; Vegas goes a glitzy shade of green.
Jonathan Thompson Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition

Letters

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Mary Sojourner Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
So much for that doggie in the window
Jan Raffaele Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
The power of pond scum
Matthew Kaser Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
Medium-rare, with a side of dead trees
Reggie Nepomuceno Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
Rhetoric vs. reasonableness
Dan Dagget Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
Bargains with wolves
Kathleen Ochs Oct. 15, 2007 From the print edition
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