Spanish-speaking, often underestimated immigrant workers
keep the West's ski resorts running in the face of INS raids,
discrimination and other trials.
Magazine

December 23, 1996
Spanish-speaking, often underestimated immigrant workers keep the West's ski resorts running in the face of INS raids, discrimination and other trials.
Feature
Sidebar
Legal immigrant Agustin Perez plans to sue federal
immigration officials because of the way he was treated during the
Aug. 8 raid in Jackson, Wyo.
Kay Humann, the office manager of High Country Linen in
Jackson, Wyo., says that the only people who will do the work are
the Spanish-speaking people.
Shelley Weiss of Oakley, Utah, in her own words talks
about her group, Conexion Amigo's work helping local Mexican
workers
Newly naturalized citizen Jesus Angulo in his own words
describes his successful journey from Sinaloa, Mexico, to Denver,
Colo.
The tiny Christian Church of Bethlehem in Emma, Colo.,
serves the spiritual - and other - needs of Mexican and Central
American immigrants who work in nearby Aspen.
Uncommon Westerners
Residents of Red Lodge, Mont., fight to keep their post
office downtown.
As in Red Lodge, Mont., residents of Livingston also fight
to keep their post office downtown, calling it the "lynchpin" of
the area.
Essays
The first Western Summit on Tourism and Public Lands shows
the Clinton administration seeking a political and economic
alliance with the West's growing tourist industry.
Reviewing Thomas Michael Power's "Lost Landscapes and
Failed Economies," HCN's publisher disputes the author's conclusion
that the West's new service economy will create the best of all
possible worlds.
Heard Around the West
Militia matchmaking; unexpected risks of deer hunting; the
dangerous mushroom-picking business in Oregon; Arizona's Biosphere
revisited; what to do when a grizzly attacks, revised.
Dear Friends
Winter comes to Paonia; cartoonist Elmer Sprung wins fight
with Montana forest officials; intern Sarah Dry; odds and ends;
corrections and emendations.
News
Heavy rain on clearcut hillsides in western Oregon is
blamed for floods and landslides that kill eight people.
Wyoming Go. James Geringer takes over the state's Resource
Advisory Council after he disagreed with Interior Secretary Bruce
Babbitt over the appointment of a member too closely tied to the
livestock industry.
River ecologist Dave Wegner, who oversaw the research that
led to the "manmade" flood in Grand Canyon, quits after the
Interior Department shuts down his Glen Canyon Environmental
Studies offices.
River guides and outfitters protest new drug-testing
requirements begun in Grand Canyon National Park and soon to come
to Utah's Canyonlands and Dinosaur National Monument.
In New Mexico, U.S. District Judge Howard Bratton orders
that all 863 cows belonging to ranchers Kit and Sherry Laney must
be removed from national forest land.
"Teaming with Wildlife," a proposal to raise money for
wildlife conservation and outdoor recreation by adding a small
change to the cost of bird-seed, kayaks, hiking boots, etc., faces
opposition from both the left and right.
Musician Paul Winter decries the growth in aircraft noise
in the Grand Canyon since he first recorded music in the park 30
years ago.
Letters
- Nevada lithium mine kicks off a new era of Western extraction
- ‘Wild Indian’ is much more than just an Indigenous film
- In Arizona, building a wall — and destroying a canyon
- Will the climate crisis tap out the Colorado River?
- All fracked up: A debut memoir wrestles with toxic masculinity in the oil fields
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