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Last chance for the Lobo

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

Last chance for the Lobo
Mexican Wolves in Catron County, New Mexico struggle to survive in the midst of underfunding, inbreeding, and hostile local ranchers.
John Dougherty Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Sidebar

The troubled times of the Mexican wolf
A timeline reveals the complicated, ill-fated story of the Mexican wolf in New Mexico.
Staff Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Canis fiasco
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.
Jonathan Thompson Opinion Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

Tireless and tenacious storytelling
Lori Edmo-Suppah works tirelessly to keep the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes informed through the newspaper she edits, the Sho-Ban News
Ray Ring Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Essays

Boodog roasting on an open fire
Boodog roasting on an open fire
You may not want to try this at home, but Spokane writer Kevin Taylor offers a traditional Mongolian holiday recipe – roasted marmot.
Kevin Taylor Essay Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Book Reviews

No ordinary stroll
William deBuys writes poetically and thoughtfully about his own life in New Mexico in The Walk.
Laura Paskus Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
Selling empanadas, building a community
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.
Malcolm McCollum Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

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.
Betsy Marston Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
HCN Christmas Open House; visits from a pilot, a vulcanologist, and a group of Rotarians from India; remembering John Firor.
Jodi Peterson Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

News

A river sacrificed
On Washington's Tieton River, an attempt to help one endangered fish, the spring chinook, has harmed another, the threatened steelhead.
Gisela Telis Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
The Promised Land?
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.
Isabelle Groc Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Two Weeks in the West

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.
Jonathan Thompson Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition

Letters

Where have all the (exotic) flowers gone?
Brandt Mannchen Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
Personal freedom, personal responsibility
Gary Lasky Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
The cure is worse
Claude Ginsburg Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
Not Rupert Murdoch, that's for sure
Sesshu Foster Dec. 24, 2007 From the print edition
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