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Catron County's politics heat up as its land goes bankrupt

June 24, 1996

Catron County, N.M., the home of the county independence movement, is a study of contrasts - its people heavily dependent on the federal government and its land and rivers dying.

Feature

Catron County's politics heat up as its land goes bankrupt
Catron County, N.M., the home of the county independence movement, is a study of contrasts - its people heavily dependent on the federal government and its land and rivers dying.
Tony Davis June 24, 1996 From the print edition

Sidebar

The County Attorney
Catron County Attorney Jim Catron, in his own words, on the "rural Western resistance to the federal empire."
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition
The Businessperson
An anonymous Catron County businessperson, in his words, on the tensions between factions in the county.
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition
The Forest Ranger
Forest Service District Ranger Mike Gardner, in his own words, on dealing with the tensions in Catron County.
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition
The Psychologist
Psychologist Melinda Garcia, in her own words, on working with people in Catron County's "war zone."
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition
The Country Doctor
Reserve, N.M., Dr. Mark Unverzagt, in his own words, on the often overlooked middle ground in Catron County.
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition

Essays

Canyonlands is a park in name only; in truth only highly organized chaos reigns
A river trip through Utah's Canyonlands National Park leads a winter-naturalist to muse about the geologic chaos inside the park's human-imposed boundaries.
Craig Leland Childs Essay June 24, 1996 From the print edition

Book Reviews

Lessons of Lewis and Clark
Daniel Botkin's book, "Our Natural History: the Lessons of Lewis and Clark," describes the Western wilderness the explorers saw in 1804-1806 and compares it to the West of today.
C. L. Rawlins June 24, 1996 From the print edition
It's the pits
Summo USA Corp. plans to mine 34 million pounds of copper each year for 10 years in the Lisbon Valley southeast of Moab, Utah.
Staff June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Can the silence be unbroken?
Transportation Secretary Federico Peûa proposes a ban on commercial scenic overflights in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.
Staff June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Making history on the prairie
The Prairie Plains Resource Institute in Nebraska seeks to preserve and celebrate the prairie.
Staff June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Living with wildlife
The Colorado Division of Wildlife's guide, "Developing With Wildlife in Mind," hopes to educate people about the possible conflicts with wildlife in suburbia.
Staff June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Still stealing trees
A report, "Unindicted Co-Conspirator," says that since the Forest Service disbanded its special timber-theft task force last year, investigations of large-scale timber stealing have ground to a halt.
Staff June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Mountain outposts of empire
A review of Tom Wolf's "Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains."
Ed Quillen June 24, 1996 From the print edition

Heard Around the West

Heard around the West
High Country Shopper, Rocky Mountain News scorns rural Colorado cows, low wages for Wyoming women, husband wife team of wilderness rangers needs money in Montana, quips from Myles Rademan, New York Times' Freemen blooper.
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition

Dear Friends

Dear friends
HCN's summer break, odds and ends, summer interns Greg Hanscom and Jared Farmer, Paul Larmer visits Utah rancher Hardy Redd.
Betsy Marston June 24, 1996 From the print edition

News

Marvel ups the ante
Conservationist Jon Marvel bid against rancher Mike Ward over a 10-year lease, raising the fee to $12,050, then folded and declared victory.
Dan Egan June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Fire sweeps through the Southwest
The Southwest's drought brings an early and ferocious forest fire season.
Elizabeth Manning June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Wyoming climbers win equal footing
A federal judge rules that Devils Tower National Monument cannot prohibit commercial climbing in June to accommodate Native American religious practices at the tower.
Chris Tollefson June 24, 1996 From the print edition
State lands: money isn't everything
Colorado Gov. Roy Romer drafts a ballot initiative to force the state land board to consider long-term stewardship and protection of state-owned lands.
Heather Abel June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Ranger charges ranchers with assault
Forest Service Range Conservationist Chuck Oliver is physically assaulted when he tries to attend a meeting in Eagle, Ariz., between public-lands ranchers and wise-use attorney Karen Budd-Falen.
Lisa Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Ski industry masters the sneak attack
The ski industry seeks to slip a bill through Congress that would preserve the current low Forest Service fees resorts pay and let them renew 40-year leases without environmental review.
Jon Margolis June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Twenty-something takes Sierra Club's helm
The Sierra Club elects 23-year-old Adam Werbach as its new president.
Heather Abel June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Proposed hatchery breeds conflict
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's plan to build the $4 million Grandy Creek steelhead hatchery faces stiff opposition from fishing groups, scientists and conservationists.
John Rosapepe June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Predator control: more pain than gain
A survey in Montana shows that predators account for just 2.2 percent of all cattle losses in the state in 1995.
Scott Mcmillion June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Idaho air base guns for more space, again
Idaho opponents assail Mountain Home Air Force Base's latest training-range expansion plans.
Steve Stuebner June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Clean air victory in Colorado
The polluting, coal-fired Hayden Power Plant in northeastern Colorado agrees to reform, to activists' delight.
Jared Farmer June 24, 1996 From the print edition
No pay for pooches
Defenders of Wildlife, which compensates ranchers for livestock killed by wolves, says it cannot compensate for pets killed by wolves.
Elizabeth Manning June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Pact promises cleaner canyon air
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission issues an ambitious proposed air-quality cleanup blueprint for the Colorado Plateau.
James Bishop Jr. June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Development plan breaks consensus on grizzlies
A pact between Plum Creek Timber Co., Montana state and federal agencies, to preserve some land for grizzlies falters when Plum Creek decides to sell some of the land to developers.
Mark Matthews June 24, 1996 From the print edition

Letters

Alarmed by consensus
Gail Stephens June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Consensus breaks out in Idaho
Dennis Baird June 24, 1996 From the print edition
We need both
Phil Wallin June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Frog story hurt, not helped
Yvette Converse June 24, 1996 From the print edition
He's true blue
Earl Mckinney June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Chaining is a sop for cows
Ronald M. Lanner June 24, 1996 From the print edition
Enola Hill report was nowhere near objective
Doug Jones June 24, 1996 From the print edition
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