Magazine
Peace on the Klamath

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

Peace on the Klamath
Peace on the Klamath
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.
Matt Jenkins June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Editor's Note

Unlikely alliance?
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.
Jonathan Thompson Opinion June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Uncommon Westerners

Survival and the fittest
Ultra-marathon runner Nikki Kimball races to keep her spirit strong and her personal demons at bay.
Ray Sikorski June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Essays

Credo: The People’s West
Photographer Stephen Trimble offers suggestions for how citizens and communities can reinvent their relationship with the Western landscape.
Stephen Trimble Essay June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Loves, losses and utter disasters
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.
Tanya Lee June 23, 2008 From the print edition
Solo journeys, life lessons
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.
Irene Wanner June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

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.
Betsy Marston June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
High Country News intern program, Paonia, Colorado, Andrea Appleton, Rob Inglis, Emily Steinmetz
Andrea Appleton, Rob Inglis and Emily Steinmetz June 23, 2008 From the print edition

News

The bone collectors
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.
Jodi Peterson June 23, 2008 From the print edition
Wilderness, schmilderness
In Nevada, local counties spooked about the prospect of wilderness within their boundaries derail public-lands bills that could actually help their communities.
Gordon Gregory June 23, 2008 From the print edition
Shifting sands in Navajoland
On the drought-stricken Navajo Nation, scientist Margaret Hiza Redsteer studies the movement of sand dunes.
Michelle Nijhuis June 23, 2008 From the print edition
Dewey Bridge: In memoriam
Jim Stiles remembers Utah’s historic Dewey Bridge, which was destroyed by a fire recently.
Jim Stiles June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Two Weeks in the West

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.
Ray Ring June 23, 2008 From the print edition

Letters

The dark side of the cowboy myth
Pat Munday June 23, 2008 From the print edition
Green in more ways than one
Wesley C. Rolley June 23, 2008 From the print edition
Don’t fill ’er up, plug ’er in
Zachary Smith June 23, 2008 From the print edition
The population tsunami
Kathleene Parker June 23, 2008 From the print edition
What’s the penalty for “shooting under the influence ”
Michael Stroup June 23, 2008 From the print edition
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