Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of
prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an
economy.
Magazine
June 26, 1995
Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an economy.
Feature
Sidebar
Most new prisons are being built in economically troubled
rural areas.
Prisons are a major growth industry in the rural
West.
The Delta Correctional Facility was given unrestricted use
of 91 acres in the Escalante State Wildlife Area in
Colorado.
The prisons in Colorado's Fremont County have brought more
benefits than problems, many claim.
Delta County resident Lettie Hellman is a proponent of
prisons for economic growth and other reasons.
Essays
A tongue-in-cheek consideration of Colorado Republican
Scott McInnis' search for waste at the Department of Interior, the
closing of national parks and the Christian Coalition's involvement
in both.
Wolf-watchers, biologists, elk and coyotes all react to
the shake-up caused by wolves returning to Yellowstone.
Heard Around the West
Want ads for sheepherders, straw bale houses on the Navajo
Reservation, women in the Forest Service, betting on the planet's
future, New Era philanthropy, seminars on "how to stay
calm."
Dear Friends
Skipped issue, long-range planning and board meeting,
visiting fellow Rick Keister, interns Diane Kelly and Shea
Andersen.
News
Utah environmentalists protest the wilderness bill
introduced by Utah Republicans.
A controversial Colorado proposed ski resort, Lake
Catamount, suffers a setback when the major investor pulls
out.
Tom Chisholm, former environmental manager of the bankrupt
Summitville Mine is indicted by the EPA for his part in Colorado's
worst environmental disaster.
The EPA indicts Louisiana-Pacific for its Olathe, Colo.,
waferboard plant's pollution.
An award-winning salvage logging operation in Idaho
provokes controversy and criticism.
Illegal hazardous waste dumps are increasingly discovered
in national forests.
President Clinton vetoes a bill that would have doubled
salvage logging.
Activist Larry Tuttle begins on 1,872 mile walk from
Oregon to Colorado to raise support for reform of the 1872 Mining
Law.
Negotiations over reform of the 1872 Mining Law proceed
quietly in the U.S. Senate.
Dan Beard resigns as director of the Bureau of Reclamation
to the disappointment of environmentalists.
Opinion
The writer makes an impassioned plea to save Montana's
Rocky Mountain Front from oil and gas leasing.
The deep flaws in the BLM's inventory of Utah wild lands
may doom many irreplaceable landscapes that were eliminated from
wilderness consideration.
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