Craig Childs explores the fine line that separates
archeology from grave-robbing in the American Southwest.
Magazine
April 28, 2008
Craig Childs explores the fine line that separates archeology from grave-robbing in the American Southwest.
Feature
Editor's Note
Archaeology is, or at least ought to be, about more than
just picking up artifacts to gather dust on the shelves of crowded
museum storerooms.
Uncommon Westerners
Biologist Les Bighorn, a Dakota Sioux, works to restore
the swift fox to its native landscape on the Fort Peck Sioux and
Assiniboine Reservation.
Essays
Ed Quillen considers Charlton Heston, the Second
Amendment, and the rights, wrongs and responsibilities of gun
ownership out West.
Will Rounds, who was once a very squeamish vegetarian,
describes hacking apart the body of an elk to feed wolves at
Mission:Wolf.
Book Reviews
Amy Irvine’s memoir, Trespass, describes how she
moved to rural Utah after her father’s suicide.
The essays in Page Stegner’s Adios Amigos celebrate
the fragile beauty of Western rivers and the lives of the artists
and explorers who journeyed down them.
Heard Around the West
A field guide to obnoxious housing; April Fool’s in
Aspen; Ruby the turkey vulture; how to curb immigration; and
please, baby boomers, don’t all retire at once!
Dear Friends
A panel of experts will debate whether gas development and
recreation can coexist in western Colorado; Michelle Nijhuis wins
awards; visitors; poem by Cam Scott.
News
Even as the federal government pushes for more nuclear
power plants and nuclear weapons, cleanup lags far behind on the
West’s most contaminated nuclear sites.
Proposed museums at Hanford’s B Reactor in
Washington and Rocky Flats in Colorado would teach Westerners about
the scientific triumphs – and the human tragedies – of
the region’s nuclear history.
Two Weeks in the West
Development threatens inholdings in national parks and
forests; a few wilderness bills move through Congress; oil and
mining booms in the West; W.R. Grace sets up trust for its victims;
Homeland Security dodges enviro laws for border barriers; coal
power
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