Note: this is a sidebar to a news article titled “In one man’s hands, this lynx became a teacher.” When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied the Canada lynx a place on the list of endangered species last December, conservation groups cried foul, saying the agency ignored the recommendations of its field biologists. Politics […]
Feds decide that the Canada lynx can slink for itself
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In one man’s hands, this lynx became a teacher
John Weaver saw his first lynx in the wild and experienced a vision of sorts. The Forest Service biologist was hiking in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, when he came upon a Canada lynx sitting on its haunches about 50 yards away. “The longer I looked at that lynx,” Weaver says, “the more it […]
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A Montana county unearths a major welfare queen: itself
CHOTEAU, Mont. – Adam F. Dahlman never doubted the old saying that for every dollar American taxpayers fork over to Uncle Sam, the government gives back 50 cents and instructions on how to spend it. But that was before Dahlman, a commissioner in Teton County, north of Great Falls, took a long look at how […]
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Moab area acts to regain control of public lands
MOAB, Utah – Visitors flock here like swallows returning to Capistrano, decked out in spring plumage of spandex, their vehicles sprouting bike racks and kayaks. Locals call this the “silly season” in Utah’s southeastern canyon country. But thanks to a dramatic change in visitor management at several of the area’s most popular attractions, this season […]
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Can land trades stop a subdivision and clean up a mine?
REDSTONE, Colo. – The public doesn’t often benefit from the closure and cleanup of a Western mining operation. But it could at Mid-Continent Resources’ defunct coal mines outside this small town. Through an ambitious series of land swaps, the Forest Service hopes to add about 5,800 acres of the mining company’s land to the adjoining […]
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How an ex-clown brought order to a boom town
PARK CITY, Utah – In 1884, the editor of the town newspaper scolded that “there is too much promiscuous shooting on streets at night.” More than a century later, the common complaint is there is too much promiscuous construction each day. This is the land of perpetual nail pounding, where subdivisions materialize overnight. They march […]
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County votes to control private-land logging
Alarmed by a rancher’s plans to log trees at the top of a watershed, a southern Colorado county is drafting regulations to stop the cut and protect the area’s water supply. Costilla County in the high, cold San Luis Valley now has no control over its watershed because the high mountain tracts – considered a […]
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Man, weather conspire against salmon
The giant spring runoff that was supposed to safely whisk baby Snake River salmon over dams to the Pacific Ocean has been cut down to size. Mother Nature accomplished part of the feat. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did the rest. A series of wet winter storms had buoyed the hopes of salmon advocates […]
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A 77-year-old cow watcher from Arizona
Reader Pauline Sandholdt wrote to let us know that a photo caption in our May 1 issue had blown a “considerable hole” in her confidence in High Country News. The picture in question appeared on page 19 of our special issue on land grant universities headlined, “Reform comes to “Ag” Schools.” It depicted cattle in […]
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Dear Friends
It must be spring Wyomingites Geneen Marie Haugen and David Titcomb stopped by on Memorial Day, hoping to get away from the snow and rain. “Fat chance,” they reported. With no television reception or newspaper delivery at their house, they told us they like picking up High Country News for the latest scoop – even […]
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Harold Vangilder
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, The Southwest’s last real river: Will it flow on? Harold Vangilder, 52, is a Sierra Vista city councilman, a program development specialist at the University of Arizona’s Sierra Vista campus, a retired Fort Huachuca civil servant and a founder of the pro-growth Fort Huachuca […]
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Sandy Anderson
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, The Southwest’s last real river: Will it flow on? Sandy Anderson, 41, with her husband, Alvin, owns the Gray Hawk Ranch, a popular birdwatching retreat along the San Pedro River a few miles east of Sierra Vista. They bought the property in 1984. Her […]
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The Southwest’s last real river: Will it flow on?
SAN PEDRO RIVER RIPARIAN NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA, Ariz. – For 40 miles after flowing across the Mexican border into Arizona, the San Pedro River looks like a strip of rain forest marooned in the desert. Announced by its bright green cottonwood and willow trees, the river winds northward from headwaters in the Sierra Madre through […]
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Cohabiting in Yellowstone
Cohabiting in Yellowstone While wolves dominate the news, another predator takes top billing at the Yellowstone Grizzly Foundation’s annual summit June 2-3 in Jackson, Wyo. Participants at the conference Bears and Ecosystems: A Period of Transition will discuss ongoing research and how grizzlies are adapting to the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Speakers […]
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Save wild connections
SAVE WILD CONNECTIONS “In every biotic community, there are story lines which fiction writers would give their eyeteeth for: Desert tortoises with allegiances to place that have lasted upward of 40,000 years, dwarfing any dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. Fidelities between hummingbird and montane penstemon that make the fidelities of Port William, Kentucky, seem like puppy […]
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Give “em an award
GIVE “EM AN AWARD Do you know a group or individual who deserves recognition for efforts to protect the environment? If so, send a nomination to the National Wildlife Federation by June 15 for the federation’s 1995 national conservation achievement awards, which range from communications and corporate leadership to an outstanding affiliate. The group will […]
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Rivers in jeopardy
RIVERS IN JEOPARDY It sounds like an honor, but it’s not. This year, the West contains four of the nation’s 10 most endangered rivers, chosen annually by American Rivers, a river conservation group. Because of a proposed gold mine near Yellowstone Park in Montana, the group voted the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River the […]
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Booming in ski country
BOOMING IN SKI COUNTRY They may disagree on many issues but ski resort operators, environmentalists and real estate developers have one thing in common: They are often unable to manage the problems of employee housing and traffic congestion caused by rapid growth. A conference at Colorado’s Keystone Ski Resort June 7-10 aims to resolve those […]
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Water and the West
WATER AND THE WEST In the face of rapid development, how will the West maintain and manage its water? A conference on Sustainable Use of the West’s Water will address the problems of water rights, June 12-14 at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder. Twenty-six speakers are on tap, including Molly Harriss […]
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Wonder hemp
Wonder hemp “Make the most of hemp seed and sow it everywhere.” * George Washington, 1794 Did you know that canvas was named for cannabis, the Latin term for hemp, because Renaissance artists used hemp cloth for their paintings? Or that our founding fathers wrote the first two drafts of the Declaration of Independence on […]