HCN founder Tom Bell fights the proposed Altamont gas
pipeline, which he says would harm the historic Oregon Trail at
South Pass.
Magazine
August 21, 1995
As HCN turns 25 years of age, HCN founder Tom Bell fights the proposed Altamont gas pipeline, which he says would harm the historic Oregon Trail at South Pass.
Feature
Sidebar
Tom Bell calls the Altamont pipeline "a disgraceful
example of government integrity gone awry."
Tom Bell and the Friends of South Pass seek to preserve
the area as a National Rural Historic Landscape.
Essays
HCN editor Betsy Marston reminisces about the early days
of the paper after it moved from Lander, Wyo., to Paonia,
Colo.
Former intern Auden Schendler recalls life at "Intern
Acres" in Paonia.
Shea Andersen describes the life of an HCN
intern.
Former HCN interns share memories and offer updates on
their lives since the paper.
Book Reviews
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Interaction Union
gets off to a slow start organizing in Santa Fe, N.M.
New bimonthly magazine "Edging West" is
reviewed.
Citizens Against Lawless Logging protest emergency salvage
timber sales in Montana.
Improving Rangeland Production conference set for Sept. 11
in Delta, Colo.
Great Old Broads for Wilderness plans hikes in support of
America's Redrock Wilderness Act.
The quarterly "Workbook" takes a look at Mexican and
American border communities' environmental problems after
NAFTA.
Group Sonoran North fights development north of Phoenix,
Ariz.
Montana's Environmental Information Center meets Sept. 23.
Oregon's Natural Desert Association hosts Hart Mountain National
Antelope Refuge Fence-Out, Aug. 24-27.
Heard Around the West
Camping on Green River 20 years, hog raising in Clark
County, Wash., Arizona shows what it can do, federal land managers
shoot guns rarely, porcupine race in Oregon, pity poor Texas, rodeo
cowboys' unions, RV hardships.
Dear Friends
Senior editor Ray Ring leaves HCN and Paonia for Bozeman,
Mont.
News
University of Wyoming law professor Mark Squillace is
cleared of charges that his work with environmental groups misused
university facilities.
New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici agrees to revise
his Livestock Grazing Act after sportsmen, environmentalists and
the media raise an outcry against it.
The timber industry shows no interest in buying cheap,
burned timber in salvage sales.
Emery County, Utah, hires art restorers to remove graffiti
from prehistoric rock art in Buckhorn Wash.
Union organizer Kenny Harrell wants better pay for federal
wildland fire crews.
Four mining companies agree to pay the $50 million cost of
cleaning up toxic runoff from the defunct Blackbird Mine.
The vacancy rate in Colorado resort towns grows as more
houses are bought for seldom-used second homes.
A pipe bomb discovered by hikers in July marks the fourth
time a bomb or explosive has been found in the Gila Wilderness in
the past 13 months.
Opinion
Altamont is the rural West in microcosm, writer
says.
Ousted Louisiana-Pacific chairman Harry Merlo leaves a
legacy of pollution, fraud and betrayal.
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