A writer tours the heart of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Elko
County, Nev. - and talks to people on both sides of the
struggle.
Magazine
October 30, 1995
A writer tours the heart of the Sagebrush Rebellion - Elko County, Nev. - and talks to people on both sides of the struggle.
Feature
Sidebar
Forest Service District Ranger Guy Pence talks about the
bombings of his office and van in Carson City.
Forest Service Supervisor Jim Nelson talks about the
violence that has followed his agency's crackdown on illegal
grazing.
Nye County Commissioner and wise-use leader Dick Carver
talks about the Sagebrush Rebellion in Nevada. Nye County rancher
and wise-use leader Wayne Hage offers his view of the Sagebrush
Rebellion.
Bonnie Whalen, a ranch-raised computer supervisor who
works for the Forest Service in Elko, Nev., talks about the changes
in her community.
Essays
A humorous account of wolf reintroduction from the wolf's
viewpoint.
Book Reviews
The Montana Stockgrowers Association releases a video
called "Dealing with Wolves on the Ranch."
A Grand Canyon Trust study claims that Andalex Resources'
proposed Smoky Hollow Mine will be a money-loser.
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission seeks
public comment on five proposals to reduce smog on the Colorado
Plateau.
"Water, Power and Place" conference will be held Nov.
8-11.
"Grassland" by Richard Manning is reviewed.
Photo Essay
Japanese-born photographer Kenji Kawano documents the
Navajo Marines' "code talkers" of World War II in a new
book.
Heard Around the West
Was Jim Peacock kidnapped?, Wandering moose, California
exodus slows, Montana log cabin for sale with militia included, is
"Rock feature" archaeology or rocks?, Natural Bridges gets
phones.
Dear Friends
Larry Tuttle ends 1,872-mile walk; Karl Hess Jr. visits;
other visitors; advertising; name confusion.
News
Navajo Nation President Albert Hale orders Head Start
programs on the reservation to begin teaching Navajo before
English.
Two government employees sued by Catron County wise-use
leader Dick Manning file their own case against him for harassment
and malicious prosecution.
Developers of the proposed New World gold mine on the edge
of Yellowstone Park are ordered by a federal judge to clean up old
waste from the site before getting necessary permits.
An arsonist burns a bookstore in St. George, Utah, in what
the gay owners say must be a hate crime.
Milltown, Mont., resident Tina Reinicke-Schmaus finds her
life transformed by her involvement in a Superfund project to clean
up mining waste in her town.
Environmentalists claim the Snowbasin Ski Resort is using
the Salt Lake City upcoming Olympics as an excuse for a landgrab of
Forest Service acreage.
Some timber cutting resumes on the Southwestern national
forests where logging was halted by a recent federal
injunction.
A federal court ruling may delay the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service's plan to declare grizzly recovery in Yellowstone
a success.
Ranchers delay a Forest Service-ordered cutback in grazing
on Boulder Mountain, claiming the agency falsified data.
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