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What does the West need to know?

March 18, 1996

In a changing West, the land-grant universities' cooperative extension programs must rethink their mission.

Feature

What does the West need to know?
In a changing West, the land-grant universities' cooperative extension programs must rethink their mission.
Lisa Jones March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Playing politics or helping the range?
New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force has often been accused of being a front for the livestock industry.
Tony Davis March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Talking ranching through its bleakest hour
Hudson Glimp of the University of Nevada's College of Agriculture seeks to create "sustainable agreement" in public-lands grazing.
Donica Harrington And Jon Christensen March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Helping a busted mining town back to its feet
Extension agent Barb Andreozzi offers creative ideas and practical assistance to help Anaconda, Mont., prosper again.
Florence Williams March 18, 1996 From the print edition
My God! Healthy trees!
Extension foresters in Idaho help the sisters of St. Gertrude's Monastery manage their forests in a way that balances economics with ecology and spirituality.
Stephen J. Lyons March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Montana's outback goes on-line
Montana State University turns to "electronic extension" to meet the information needs of the state's widely scattered population.
Florence Williams March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Monoculture meets its match in North Dakota
John Gardner represents a new breed of agricultural "specialized generalists" who want to help Dakota farmers reclaim the food system.
Ed Marston March 18, 1996 From the print edition

Sidebar

What is cooperative extension?
Description of what the West's extension agents do.
Lisa Jones March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Taking a stand for New Mexico's small farmers
In his own words, extension agent Edmund Gomez describes how the Rural Agriculture Improvement Project seeks to help New Mexico's poor farmers.
Lisa Jones March 18, 1996 From the print edition
'It's great to ask geeks for advice'
Montana State University's new manufacturing extension center helps entrepreneurs such as backpack designer Dana Gleason of Dana Design.
Florence Williams March 18, 1996 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Desert rendezvous
A Desert Wildlands Revival: Water, Wildlife and Wilderness in the High Desert conference in Burns, Oregon.
Staff March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Tailings pile makes waves
The Nuclear Regulatory Agency's decision to cap 130 acres of radioactive debris with dirt on the bank of the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, angers local residents.
Dustin Solberg March 18, 1996 From the print edition
They did it themselves
Federal employees and outside experts under the auspices of AFSEEE develop a management plan for the Columbia Basin - a volunteer effort that cost taxpayers nothing.
Michelle Mcclellan March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Just a little advice
County Commissioner John Clarke's primer, "The Code of the West," seeks to help newcomers adjust to rural Larimer County, Colo.
Staff March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Naked and marvelous
Kenneth Perry's topographic map of "The Colorado Plateau and its Drainage" is like seeing the West from heaven.
C. L. Rawlins March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Arid art
English watercolorist Tony Foster displays paintings of the desert West in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Staff March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Environmental heroes
The League of Conservation Voters' 26th annual report rates lawmakers on environmental votes.
Staff March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Small Farming in Oregon
The Oregon State University Extension hosts "Small Farming in Oregon" March 29-30 at Linfield College.
Staff March 18, 1996 From the print edition
The Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology and the West
The Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology and the West symposium is scheduled for April 12-13 at the University Park Hotel in Salt Lake City.
Staff March 18, 1996 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
Lost in the West, including Sacajawea, Bureau of Indian Affairs money; extra acres of public land appearing; busted for nude sunbathing in Spokane; computer sculpture courtesy of DIA; Helen Chenoweth on new species; Columbia Falls finally gets waterfall.
Lisa Jones March 18, 1996 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear Friends
Spring interns Michelle McClellan and Bill Taylor, small world department.
Betsy Marston March 18, 1996 From the print edition

News

Is it fix or nix for the salvage rider?
Campaign politics and the prospect of summer protests are pushing President Clinton and Congress toward dismantling or changing the salvage logging rider.
Paul Larmer March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Greenbacks shape campaigns
Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth is accused of misusing money; Utah's Enid Waldholtz will retire; Colorado Democrats are divided over ethics of accepting PAC money; in Oregon Peter DeFazio drops out of race to replace Mark Hatfield.
Heather Abel March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Grizzlies forego their snooze
In Montana's Glacier National Park, young grizzlies have begun to eschew hibernation and prowl the park in winter, pilfering the kills of wolves and mountain lions.
Mark Matthews March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Score one for local control
In Colorado, a bill to gut state law 1041, which allows local communities to have strict land-use regulations, is pulled from consideration in the House.
Jenny Emery March 18, 1996 From the print edition
EPA tells Colorado to get tough on mine
The EPA orders the state of Colorado to tighten regulations from open-pit gold mine near Victor.
Jenny Emery March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Brand new name, same old story
A new group called Northwesterners for More Fish is made up of electric companies, timber companies and aluminum plants.
Paul Larmer March 18, 1996 From the print edition

Opinion

Tactics first, ideas last
The Media and Democracy Conference in San Francisco showed alternative media as too mired in the "60s and in political correctness to thoughtfully address realities of the "90s.
Ed Marston Opinion Essay March 18, 1996 From the print edition
How I learned to love logging
The writer takes an ironic look at the Thunderbolt timber sale in Idaho, and at Boise Cascade's conviction that only logging can save the endangered chinook salmon.
Erik Ryberg Opinion Essay March 18, 1996 From the print edition

Letters

The edge explained
Bill Debuys March 18, 1996 From the print edition
From the front lines of Idaho
Gary Macfarlane March 18, 1996 From the print edition
Enough already, ranchers
Carol Buchanan March 18, 1996 From the print edition
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