For years, Native Americans, fishermen and farmers have
battled over the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern
California, but finally a complicated truce is in the
works.
Magazine
June 23, 2008
For years, Native Americans, fishermen and farmers have battled over the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California, but finally a complicated truce is in the works.
Feature
Editor's Note
In most of the West’s complicated environmental
problems, so-called “unlikely alliances” between greens
and their opposite numbers are really not that unlikely after
all.
Uncommon Westerners
Ultra-marathon runner Nikki Kimball races to keep her
spirit strong and her personal demons at bay.
Essays
Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how
citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the
Western landscape.
Book Reviews
In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant
intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The
California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously
toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
In the nine essays gathered in her new book, Hiking Alone,
poet and artist Mary Beath celebrates nature from the point of view
of an independent woman.
Heard Around the West
Touring a brothel for college credit; Sherpas in Salt Lake
City; one hot cat in Washington; bikers vs. drivers in Larimer
County, Colo.
Dear Friends
High Country News intern program, Paonia, Colorado, Andrea
Appleton, Rob Inglis, Emily Steinmetz
News
In Colorado’s Gunnison River Basin, wildlife
managers are clamping down on out-of-control antler gatherers in
order to make life easier for deer and sage grouse.
In Nevada, local counties spooked about the prospect of
wilderness within their boundaries derail public-lands bills that
could actually help their communities.
On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret
Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
Jim Stiles remembers Utah’s historic Dewey Bridge,
which was destroyed by a fire recently.
Two Weeks in the West
Bush administration finally acknowledges reality of global
warming; Montana politics; Yucca Mountain 8,000-page application
turned in; J.R. Simplot dies; Telluride wins fight over open
space.
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