It’s all partisan now

I feel compelled to comment on Monica Gokey’s article, “Is sporting a Patagonia fleece now a political statement?” (HCN, 12/10/18), which I found curious on many fronts. If “it’s a cardinal sin for reporters to display anything that might lead sources to believe we are anything but neutral parties,” then your considerations need to go […]

On Oct. 16, 2010, my friend Bob Boardman was killed by a mountain goat in Olympic National Park. Bob, an experienced mountaineer, had lived for 34 years on the Olympic Peninsula and had hiked and backpacked extensively in the park. To dismiss him as a “tourist” (“Heard Around the West,” HCN, 10/29/18) is far from […]

I recently retired from the U.S. Forest Service, with many years as the lead wildlife biologist on the Rio Grande National Forest. I worked extensively with bighorn sheep issues in southwest Colorado, including some of the herds mentioned in HCN’s article, which also share our landscape (“The Big Threat to Bighorns,” HCN, 9/3/18). It is […]