Magazine
Unnatural Preservation

February 4, 2008

Public-land managers in the era of global warming face uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants and animals, or stand back and let this new version of “nature” take its course?

Feature

Unnatural Preservation
Public-land managers in the era of global warming face uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants and animals, or stand back and let this new version of “nature” take its course?
M. Martin Smith and Fiona Gow Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Planning for uncertainty
A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and national park managers throughout the West.
Paul Larmer Opinion Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

The Chaparralian
The Chaparralian
Richard Halsey says Southern California’s chaparral is not to blame for the fires that scorch the region every year.
Judith Lewis Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Essays

Standing outside, late, in a charcoal forest
Alan S. Kesselheim Essay Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Die with me
Three new books about the West’s Indian wars – Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall: Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent past.
Annie Dawid Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Writers on the Range

A bad idea hits the gas pumps
Dustin Heron Urban has declared war on the little black stickers at gas stations that announce the availability of ethanol.
Dustin Heron Urban Opinion Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Time to call the gas industry’s bluff
Randy Udall says Colorado needs to act now to collect severance taxes from the natural gas companies that are making a fortune from the state.
Randy Udall Opinion Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Jim Stiles asks about perfect moments; rent-a-pet; Douglas Bruce behaves like a jerk; Forest Service meeting gets nasty in Montana.
Betsy Marston Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
New winter interns Francisco Tharp and Evelyn Schlatter; clarification
Francisco Tharp, Evelyn Schlatter and JodiPeterson Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

News

Hold the salt
The largest wetland restoration project on the West Coast tackles the tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay.
Jennifer Weeks Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Nevada stakes its salmon claim
Nevada sportsmen, tribes and environmentalists ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission not to renew licenses for Hells Canyon’s dams until Idaho Power makes it possible for salmon to survive its dams.
Ken Olsen Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Two Weeks in the West

Two weeks in the West
A flurry of end-of-year easements saves lots of lovely landscapes; heli-skiing wins in Utah; snow-lovers help starving Colorado deer; a possible ceasefire on the Klamath; and bark beetles are destroying Colorado’s lodgepole pines.
Jodi Peterson Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition

Letters

More, more, more
Dave Gardner Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Walk the talk, libs
Ed Graef Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Limit one per household, please
Roger Williams Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Ah, diversity ...
Jim Wilkinson Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Standing up for catron county
Erin Evans Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Fight the good fight
Chris Bell Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
Outen the lights
Joanne Bergman Feb. 4, 2008 From the print edition
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