Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist
Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale
boom.
Magazine
February 5, 1996
Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale boom.
Feature
Sidebar
In his own words, an anonymous retired East Coast
businessman explains his disillusionment with the West and his
decision not to buy property there.
Essays
The writer describes how his New Yorker father fell in
love with, and eventually moved to, Santa Fe.
New Mexico environmentalists need to quit shouting and
squabbling and try to understand rural Hispanic needs and
values.
The "war of words," started by wise users and taken up by
environmentalists, needs to end in a truce and a turn to
non-violent language.
Two Cove-Mallard protest veterans offer a light-hearted
list of dos and don'ts for those facing arrest for civil
disobedience.
Book Reviews
Despite a depressed market, Green Mountain Mining Venture
asks the BLM for permission to open the Jackpot uranium
mine.
Essayist Ann Ronald and photographer Stephen Trimble
celebrate Nevada in the book "Earthtones: A Nevada
Album."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife issues a draft propoal that would
allow the agency to remove the wolf from the endangered list before
environmentalists think it is recovered.
Photographer Carole Gallagher profiles the West's
downwinders and atomic veterans in a show and lecture in Denver,
Colorado.
The Environmental Working Group publishes a pamphlet
describing how a proposed "takings" law in Washington was
defeated.
The Forgotten Pollinators Campaign seeks to warn Americans
about the decline of honey bees and other pollinators.
Klamath Basin Bald Eagle Conference in Klamath Falls,
Oregon.
Great Salt Lake Issues Symposium, an educational forum,
held Feb. 10.
Heard Around the West
Pizza-eating wolf, Crow Nation loses rights to Big Horn
Nat'l Forest, football in Lyman, Wyo., retirement benefits for Alan
Simpson and Pat Schroeder, Linda Hasselstrom overhears conversation
about Jackson and Wyoming, taxi drivers at DIA.
Dear Friends
Colorado Springs board meeting, long-range planning, index
and superindex, Tony Davis wins award, Adam Duerk recovers from
fall.
News
Catron County, N.M.'s land ordinances survive an
environmental lawsuit, but fail to be enforced on the
ground.
New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force issues a
press release saying the Diamond Bar allotment is not overgrazed,
and environmentalists and scientist critics cry
"pseudoscience."
Republican challengers race to fill the seat abandoned by
retiring Democratic Rep. Pat Williams.
Idaho environmentalists fight with the state Land Board
over leasing parcels for conservation instead of grazing and win a
court victory.
A coalition of sportsmen, ranchers and environmentalists
called Montanans for Clean Water puts an initiative on the fall
ballot designed to toughen the state's water laws.
Researchers study the elusive wolverine and discover new
facts about the animal's range, numbers, social life and sexual
behavior.
A captured Canadian wolf destined for release in Idaho is
killed after biting a biologist's thumb.
A coalition of animal rights groups and Indian tribes
stops New Mexico from staging buffalo hunts on the decommissioned
Army depot Fort Wingate.
Oregon resident Jack Lee Harelson is found guilty of
looting an Indian burial cave in Nevada, and pothunter Earl Shumway
is sentenced in Utah to six-and-one-half years.
Rancher Jim Maitland rescues an injured golden eagle in
southwestern Oregon.
Floatboaters object to Republican Sen. Larry Craig's bill
allowing powerboats unlimited access to Hells Canyon.
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