Magazine
January 21, 2008
The Interior West’s growing political voice – and its status as the nation’s energy supplier – mean presidential candidates need to see the region as more than campaign flyover country.
Feature
High Country News imagines – and delivers –
the kind of speech about our energy future that the West needs to
hear from its next president.
Editor's Note
The Interior West’s growing political voice –
and its status as the nation’s energy supplier – mean
presidential candidates need to see the region as more than
campaign flyover country.
Uncommon Westerners
Issa Hamud, an engineer who was born in Somalia, helped
Logan, Utah, create a successful recycling program.
Essays
Laura Pritchett reluctantly – and guiltily –
agrees to take care of a blind pigeon for her mother.
Writers on the Range
Todd Wilkinson wonders what it would take to get
Westerners to act against the destruction of our
landscape.
Dear Friends
Welcome to baby Lily Jean Massart Isaacson;
visitors.
News
Law professor Kevin Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw
Nation, says the justice system in Indian Country is in serious
need of overhaul.
Environmentalists have been working with Washington
foresters to keep small tree farms in business, but the treaty
between the two remains a fragile one.
Book Reviews
In the short stories in Last Call, Colorado writer Blair
Oliver looks at the desperate suburban lives of modern-day Western
men.
In Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of
Metamorphosis, Kim Todd uncovers the life and legacy of a
pioneering 17th century woman
Heard Around the West
Remembering Beverly Allen, an 80-something showgirl;
nation’s largest Sitka spruce dies; all religions are weird
to non-believers; Ted Turner vs. Nebraska; the benefits of being a
resort town; growing pains in the West.
Letters
Two Weeks in the West
EPA stymies California’s attempt to cut tailpipe
emissions; the West is growing but not sure where its next meal or
drink of water will come from; increasing amounts of ammonium
– and guns – in the parks; avalanche fatalities are
up.
