Hunting in the West faces public relations problems as
well as questions about ethical and biological issues.
Magazine
December 11, 1995
Hunting in the West faces public relations problems as well as questions about ethical and biological issues.
Feature
Sidebar
Philosopher Ann Causey discusses the ethical question of
hunting.
Taxidermist John Stevenson discovers the art and craft of
taxidermy.
An excerpt from the classic "Meditations on Hunting" by
Mexican writer Jose Ortega y Gasset.
Colorado outfitters call for a restriction on the use of
all-terrain vehicles on public lands.
Idahoans argue about banning some forms of bear
hunting.
Rancher Milo Hanson tours North America to show off his
record-breaking whitetail deer rack.
There are organizations with positions on hunting ranging
from one extreme to another.
A list of organizations that hold positions from
pro-hunting through neutral to anti-hunting.
Essays
An excerpt from Jim Posewitz's "Beyond Fair Chase" tells
of a bowhunter's obsession with finding his kill.
A writer muses on the contradictions inherent in his love
for the hunt but dislike of killing animals.
A writer traces his disenchantment with, and eventual
renunciation of, hunting.
In losing the grand old ponderosa pine forests, we risk
the loss of mystery and grace.
Book Reviews
The group 1000 Friends of New Mexico hopes to encourage
responsible land-use planning and stop suburban sprawl.
The film "Fire on the Mountain" traces the history of
WWII's famous 10th Mountain Division, veterans of which founded ski
resorts and became prominent environmentalists and outdoor
educators.
Environmental journalists are invited to apply for a
fellowship year at Harvard.
A radio documentary "Writing the Southwest" features 13
Southwestern authors.
"The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media,
and Society" conference is planned for March.
Artist Lester Dore's map of the plumbing of the Colorado
Basin is available as a poster.
Courses in Applied Fluvial Geomorphology, Stream
Classification and Applications and River Assessment and Monitoring
are offered.
The Annenberg Rural Challenge seeks to reform rural
schools.
Heard Around the West
Second-rate national parks, "virtual" national parks, not
ruthless feds, Barbara Cubin's woes, Catherine Crabill rails
against greenies, Arizona Gov. Fife Symington willing to shoot
spotted owls, jobs available in Aspen.
Dear Friends
Warm weather, intern Jenny Emery, corrections and
emendations, Research Fund appeal, NewtWatch and us, HCN holiday
gathering.
News
The anti-environment onslaught of the Republican Congress
begins to falter as a backlash makes its presence felt.
The Forest Service is blamed when loggers cut trees within
yards of a nest of rare goshawk fledglings, causing them to
die.
On Oct. 3, activist Tim Ream began a hunger strike to
protest the "logging without laws" salvage rider.
The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund hopes to prove the
salvage sale called Thunderbolt in Idaho's Boise National Forest is
"arbitrary and capricious" in one of the first lawsuits against a
salvage sale.
Twelve Cove/Mallard timber-sale protesters are convicted
in Moscow, Idaho.
Pueblo Bishop Arthur Tafoya agrees with the Catholic Human
Development Commission that the Animas-La Plata water project is
wasteful and destructive.
The deaths of 342 migrating snow geese in Montana's
Berkeley Pit are blamed on the pit's toxicity by environmentalists,
although the mine disputes it.
Farmers lead the protest against Battle Mountain Gold
Company's open-pit mine in Washington's conservative Okanogan
County.
Controversial former Northern Region Forester John Mumma
is hired as the director of the currently embattled Colorado
Division of Wildlife.
Utah Republican Enid Waldholtz faces a bid for her seat in
Congress by Democrat Karen Shepherd, while allegations of financial
impropriety embroil her and her husband, Joe Waldholtz.
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