Mexican Wolves in Catron County, New Mexico struggle to
survive in the midst of underfunding, inbreeding, and hostile local
ranchers.
Magazine
December 24, 2007
In Catron County, N.M., an attempt to reintroduce endangered Mexican wolves has fallen into chaos in the wake of political misjudgments, local hostility and problems caused by inbreeding among the wolves.
Feature
Sidebar
A timeline reveals the complicated, ill-fated story of the
Mexican wolf in New Mexico.
Editor's Note
A chaotic effort to restore Mexican wolves in New Mexico
and a problem with too many elk in Colorado are two facets of the
same problem: Our propensity to manage nature in very unnatural
ways.
Uncommon Westerners
Lori Edmo-Suppah works tirelessly to keep the
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes informed through the newspaper she edits,
the Sho-Ban News
Essays
You may not want to try this at home, but Spokane writer
Kevin Taylor offers a traditional Mongolian holiday recipe –
roasted marmot.
Book Reviews
William deBuys writes poetically and thoughtfully about his own life in New Mexico in The Walk.
In The Empanada Brotherhood, his 11th novel, New Mexico
author John Nichols pares his often-overloaded prose to the bone to
tell a unique coming-of-age story set in Greenwich Village in
1960.
Heard Around the West
Arborcide outside Las Vegas; repossessing a family; Merry
Christmoose in Alaska; interior earthworks in New York; snowplowing
on Red Mountain Pass.
Dear Friends
HCN Christmas Open House; visits from a pilot, a
vulcanologist, and a group of Rotarians from India; remembering
John Firor.
News
On Washington's Tieton River, an attempt to help one
endangered fish, the spring chinook, has harmed another, the
threatened steelhead.
In Boulder County, Colo., a megachurch that wants to
expand is using a little-known but powerful federal law to bypass
local land-use rules.
Two Weeks in the West
Greater sage grouse gets another shot at protection;
Colorado River water users ratify new plan; news from around the
West; a high-tech “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico
border runs into problems.
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