Magazine
June 9, 2008
Jeffrey Lockwood believes that the modern West could use an infusion of old-fashioned Cowboy Mythology.
Feature
Jeffrey Lockwood believes that the modern West could use
an infusion of old-fashioned Cowboy Mythology.
Editor's Note
In today’s complicated West, where retirees battle
energy companies and environmentalists fight transmission lines
carrying green power, maybe we need some heroic cowboys to help
straighten everything out.
Uncommon Westerners
Navajo weaver Marie Begay makes beautiful rugs from the
wool of the sheep she raises, and looks forward to spending the
money she earns at Wal-Mart.
Essays
Pat Munday decries the “professionalization”
of environmental groups.
After a herd of wild horses is massacred in Nevada, Deanne
Stillman ponders the bones in the desert.
Dear Friends
Visitors; Jared Farmer’s new book and Pete
McBride’s new job; correction; Utah Phillips “catches
the westbound.”
News
The National Rifle Association wants to enshrine the right
to hunt in state constitutions, but even some hunters have their
doubts about the wisdom of doing so.
A backroom agreement between the Forest Service and Plum
Creek Co. leaves Montana counties out of the picture when it comes
to access to and development of national forest
inholdings.
Just because you disagree with someone about energy
drilling or off-road vehicles doesn’t mean your opponent is a
communist pinko – or an eco-terrorist.
Garry and Diann Fulks have been recycling large metal
objects for 35 years at their scrap yard in Montrose,
Colo.
Los Angeles needs green power, but some environmentalists
are up in arms over plans to build transmission lines across the
Mojave Desert.
Heard Around the West
Biodiesel pirates; dinosaur bones for sale; archaeological
developments; hot weather and cool bankrobbers; what to do with a
big dead moose.
Letters
Two Weeks in the West
On public lands throughout the West, hikers, bikers,
horseback riders and off-roaders compete for trail space, while
beleaguered land-managers struggle to come up with workable forest
management plans.
