The increase in numbers of tourists drawn to the canyon
country by guidebooks and magazines raises questions about
exploiting and overusing a fragile landscape.
Magazine
September 4, 1995
The increase in numbers of tourists drawn to the canyon country by guidebooks and magazines raises questions about exploiting and overusing a fragile landscape.
Feature
Sidebar
Critics say outdoor magazines such as "Outside" and
"Backpacker" exploit the wild places they write about.
A list of groups that teach wilderness-users to go "light
on the land."
The removal of a lone cow from Utah's Chimney Canyon cost
reams of paperwork, road-building and human effort.
An upcoming trial will decide whether the Park Service was
responsible for the deaths of two men in Kolob Canyon July 15,
1993.
Increased tourism on BLM lands forces the agency to
rethink its management plans.
Essays
A wilderness ranger describes the less-aesthetic parts of
her job as she cleans up after campers.
The second annual meeting of the Sierra Nevada Alliance
attracts activists including David Brower and Andrea
Lawrence.
The destruction of the Big Wild in Idaho's Greater
Salmon-Selway ecosystem by logging moves the author to rage and
grief.
Talk of the West's "dream towns" should focus less on
moving to one than on staying and creating a home where we already
live.
Book Reviews
The Vital Ground Foundation in Montana seeks to protect
grizzly bear habitat.
The Clinton administration sets a new policy that uses
more controlled and prescribed burns in forest
management.
The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act would
designate 20 million acres of new wilderness and in the process
create thousands of jobs.
"Getting the Word Out in the Fight to Save the Earth" by
Richard Beamish and "Let the World Know: Make Your Cause News" by
Jason Salzman are reviewed.
The Rogue River Roundup in Medford, Ore., will be the
Northwest's first cowboy poetry gathering.
"Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress's 1864
Northern Pacific Land Grant" by Derrick Johnson, George Draffan and
John Osborn is reviewed.
Heard Around the West
Greens spend little time in sports, Shirley MacLaine bucks
karma, Utah Rep. Jim Hansen turns chicken, Lake Powell is full of
s--, blimps over Grand Canyon, former Idaho Sen. James McClure
lobbies for ESA, SUWA accused of overreacting, Navajos' blue
jeans
Dear Friends
Suddenly, late summer; feedback, pro and con; black
smokejumpers in World War II.
High Country News plans its 25th anniversary celebration
in Lander, Wyoming.
News
The Flathead forestry project draws environmentalists and
loggers together to try to create a sustainable forestry in
Montana.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt launches the first phase
of his grazing reform in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Notorious pothunter Earl Shumway is convicted of looting
Anasazi burial sites in Utah.
Drastic budget cuts planned by a Republican Congress may
have a dramatic effect on the environment.
The rescissions bill signed by President Clinton calls for
huge amounts of salvage timber to be cut.
The Navajo Nation fires remaining workers at its defunct
sawmill and bails out Navajo forest products housing.
A bill introduced by Rep. Jim Hansen of Utah could allow
roads to be bulldozed across national parks and wilderness
areas.
The privately owned Grizzly Discovery Center in West
Yellowstone, Mont., buys a 10-member wolf pack for tourists to
see.
The Forest Service proposes changes in the National Forest
Management Act which environmentalists worry will weaken an
important law.
Federal Judge Carl Muecke orders 11 national forests in
Arizona and New Mexico to halt all logging until their forest plans
adequately protect the Mexican spotted owl.
Forest Service employees in the West suffer bombs and
beatings in several incidents.
The Colorado Division of Wildlife conducts studies of
bear-people encounters.
Montana Republican Sen. Conrad Burns wants to cut
wolf-reintroduction budgets and use the money for whirling disease
research.
The Ash Grove Cement Company changes its mind about
burning hazardous waste after citizens object.
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