KALISPELL, Mont. – Strange bedfellows, the logger and the conservationist. Yet here in the Flathead Valley the two have joined forces to try to revolutionize the way America’s public forests are managed. “Our goal is to look at the entire forest,” says Steve Thompson of the Montana Wilderness Association. “Environmental goals are the prime concern […]
Group tries to change how trees are cut
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Dear Friends
Suddenly, late summer It turned hot, and then it turned humid in this mountain valley that receives only 9 to 11 inches of rain a year. Although our swamp coolers can’t keep up, we tell ourselves to enjoy this damp and still warm August weather – slant light announces that fall isn’t far away. Lots […]
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BLM land: outstanding opportunities for crowding
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook. A year ago, Bureau of Land Management rangers in southern Utah stumbled upon a remote, never-looted Anasazi ruin. To protect the site, they decided not to publicize its existence, but agency staffers’ jaws dropped recently when […]
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Did federal negligence help kill two hikers?
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Who’s to blame when a backcountry hike turns deadly? Expert witnesses are being interviewed now for a trial next year that will ask that question. The case revolves around a disastrous […]
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How the BLM killed a cow to save a canyon and stop the paperwork
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook. For 10 or more years she was an orphan trapped in a wilderness prison with no means of escape. Finally, she was spotted and a rescue launched. Within sight of freedom, she was killed. One bullet […]
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For guilt-free wilderness trips
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook. For guilt-free wilderness trips Leave No Trace, Inc., is a new nonprofit group that provides information about “light on the land” backcountry skills (HCN, 6/12/95). Contact the group at P.O. Box 997, Boulder, CO 80306 (303/442-8222). […]
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The road to wilderness is paved with outdoor magazines
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook. When Larry Burke first started Outside magazine, he named it after his boat Mariah, meaning “winds of change.” That was in the mid-1970s, right around the time Patagonia started making jackets out of stuff that looked […]
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I came, I saw, I wrote a guidebook
TORREY, Utah – J.W. Powell had returned from an extended summer vacation of camping, backpacking and whitewater boating. He found every outdoor-lover’s dream: beautiful, untouched backcountry and not another tourist on the trail. Best of all, this place was a secret, not even shown on the maps. So Powell did what many avid hikers are […]
Posted inAugust 21, 1995: HCN's founder fights his last fight, yet again
Short takes
The Montana Environmental Information Center will discuss recent state legislation that weakened water quality standards – plus mining, right-wing movements and Montana’s energy future – at its annual meeting Sept. 23 at Flathead Lake Biological Station. For more information, or to register by Sept. 8, contact MEIC, P.O. Box 1184, Helena, MT 59624 (406/443-2520). Desert […]
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Save the Sonoran
Save the Sonoran “After five years of watching them bulldoze the desert and pack the sardines in, those people living in Del Webb’s 1,400-home Terravita development will need a therapist,” says David Phelps. He’s a local carpenter and board member of Sonoran North, a grassroots group battling the blade in the booming communities north of […]
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Losing the border blues
LOSING THE BORDER BLUES Since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed, exports to Mexico haven’t boomed nor have jobs increased in the United States. If you’re searching for better news on NAFTA, take a look at the summer 1995 issue of The Workbook. In its feature article, “Cleaning Up the Border: Will Sustainability […]
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Broads say: Take a hike
BROADS SAY: TAKE A HIKE Great Old Broads for Wilderness will head for the hills this fall to rally support for Utah wilderness. From Sept. 17 through Oct. 14, the group with the great name will schedule day hikes for supporters of America’s Redrock Wilderness Act. The Act would protect 5.7 million acres of land […]
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Better range, better cows
BETTER RANGE, BETTER COWS If you’re a rancher, environmentalist, or just plain interested in how better range makes for healthier cows and land, then come to Delta, Colo., for a Sept. 11 conference sponsored by the Delta/Montrose Public Lands Partnership. Program speakers include well-known ranchers such as Doc and Connie Hatfield of Brothers, Ore., Bob […]
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Breaking the law for trees
Breaking the law for trees With acts of civil disobedience reminiscent of the 1960s civil rights movement, some people in Missoula, Mont., have begun protesting emergency salvage timber sales. One week after President Clinton signed the salvage sales into law, 15 people occupied Montana Sen. Max Baucus’ Missoula office. They refused to leave until the […]
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Sharp edge of the West
SHARP EDGE OF THE WEST Jumping into the swim of the alternative press is Edging West, a new bimonthly magazine based in Logan, Utah. Editor and publisher Andrew Giarelli says his target audience includes Westerners from their 20s to their 50s who are “maybe a little irreverent.” The 40- to 50-page magazine covers movie, book […]
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Organizing takes time
Organizing takes time After eight months of organizing in Santa Fe, N.M., the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) has yet to claim a single unionized shop. That’s proof that Santa Fe tourism workers don’t want a union, says Art Bouffard of the New Mexico Hotel/Motel Association. But organizer Jesse Case insists it’s […]
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Hikers find bomb in wilderness
The July discovery of a pipe bomb by three backpackers in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness was thought to be a freak incident. Then Forest Service officials started comparing notes: It was the fourth time someone had found a bomb or explosive in the wilderness in the past 13 months. That realization jarred Forest Service employees […]
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Nobody’s home in resort towns
Homes, not people, are populating resort towns in Colorado. The Northwest Council of Governments says that the house vacancy rate in Vail – the emptiest town in Colorado – jumped from 59 percent in 1990 to 72 percent in 1994, reports the Vail/Beaver Creek Times. While vacancy rates in towns such as Steamboat Springs, Breckenridge […]
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Higher pay for hotter jobs?
-If they called them firefighters, they’d have to pay them like firefighters.” That’s the aim of union organizer Kenny Harrell of the Sacramento-based California Professional Firefighters. Harrell wants better pay for federal wildland fire crews, now called “forestry technicians.” Under that title, federal firefighters are paid less than municipal workers and then only while battling […]
Posted inAugust 21, 1995: HCN's founder fights his last fight, yet again
Pictures worth 2,000 words
Q: When is graffiti not graffiti? A: When it’s very, very old, perhaps as much as 2,000 years old. That’s the opinion of experts who looked at the sandstone wall of Buckhorn Wash in central Utah. They said the human figures and animals were painted by people called Barrier Canyon Indians, although pioneer settlers, explorers […]