NAME Greg Rock VOCATION Inventor, owner and co-founder of the Green Car Company FAVORITE BEER Red Hook HE SAYS “If we go the green route, I think the world will follow us. If we don’t, hopefully the world won’t!” WHAT HE’S READING NOW The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook When he speaks about […]
Changing the world, one car at a time
Posted inAugust 6, 2007: Guns R Us
Of politics and the river
An Arizona congressman and a military base threaten the last free-flowing river in the desert Southwest
Posted inAugust 6, 2007: Guns R Us
Dear friends
PARTY WITH HCN AND REP. MARK UDALL If you happen to be in western Colorado Thursday, Aug. 23, please join us for an HCN summer celebration. Our special guest will be Colorado Democratic Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall, who will discuss the key issues facing the region and Congress’ role in addressing them. […]
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Reckless at 50
I celebrated my 50th birthday a few years back by just about killing myself on a desert hike. I lived atop a 3,000-foot plateau called Grapevine Mesa, an extraordinary place that towered over the far eastern end of Lake Mead, a huge man-made body of water that sprawled through desert canyons 80 miles distant. My […]
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America needs clean water – and mining law reform
Back in the early 1870s, Gen. George Armstrong Custer was among those excited by the rumor of gold and glory in the Black Hills of South Dakota, my home state. A lot has changed since then, but the same law that presided over gold mining in Custer’s day — the Mining Law of 1872 — […]
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Wyoming manners? Forget about it!
Wyoming may be the rudest state in America. I grew up in upstate New York, where it was rude not to introduce strangers to each other. If you neglected to do this, you found yourself apologizing to the accidentally slighted person. Nothing in the preceding paragraph applies to daily life in Wyoming. Even New York […]
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Oh, those summer nights at the drive-in!
It’s the kind of summer night when a warm breeze rubs up against you like your date in that strapless dress on prom night so long ago. Not only that, but our kids are restless and we need something to do. It’s the perfect night, in other words, to see a movie at the drive-in. […]
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Asthma and allergies take root in the new West
‘Mom, would you really have shipped me off to Denver?’ I asked my mother recently. ‘Absolutely,’ she said. ‘But imagine,’ I said, ‘what it would have been like for a 5-year-old living in an institution, surrounded by doctors and a bunch of asthmatic kids?’ ‘You were very, very sick,’ she explained.’Nothing helped.’ She told how […]
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Love for the clay-loving buckwheat
By 8 a.m., the July day felt like a scorcher. Waves of heat rippled along the western Colorado adobe hills, shriveling plants and baking the soil to a fractured crust that crunched with every step. Two white tents peeking from between golden hills could have been a mirage, if it weren’t for the sizzle of […]
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A dustup over weed control
They race across the West covering 2,300 acres each day, devouring an area the size of twenty Wal-Mart superstores every minute. They reduce habitat for wildlife, dry up water tables and intensify the threat of wildfires on 35 million acres of public land. As the area covered by invasive plants grows, so does the amount […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
Heard Around the West
NEW MEXICO Would you stop your car at a clearly marked crosswalk if Santa Claus were strolling across the street? Would you even slow down or get off your cell phone to gawk at a walking gorilla? The University of New Mexico wanted to investigate pedestrian safety at crosswalks in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Gallup and […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
The aroma of Tacoma
My husband grew up in the Pacific Northwest. Whenever we’d go back to visit the cloudy skies of Seattle or Portland, he’d ask, “Can you picture us living here?” and I would try. But I always felt anxious. He seemed so happy, just posing the question, that I put my trepidation down to that arthritis […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
A taste of ecological medicine
In Nature’s Restoration, writer and naturalist Peter Friederici transports the reader to six ecologically damaged landscapes, from Bermuda to Arizona, that people are struggling to restore. Some of the challenges derive from the painstaking work inherent in restoration: plant by plant, species by species, two steps forward, one step back. Friederici also examines the conundrums […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
Home is where the compost is
Robert Michael Pyle has synthesized three decades of life in a small community in southwest Washington into this exquisite portrait of place. Each chapter of Sky Time in Gray’s River represents a month of the year in Gray’s River Valley; each brims with vivid moments and vignettes. Pyle, a renowned butterfly expert, has 14 books […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
A new take on ‘shoot, shovel and shut up’
Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife is right — we need to kill the predators so we can have more wildlife. No one can dispute the fact that man is the most ruthless predator to ever stride the earth. I therefore have the perfect solution: The members of SFW should all take their probably-illegally-modified AR-15 assault […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
Sportsmen unite
What’s with the animosity towards “good ol’ boys” and “rednecks”? They are citizens, taxpayers, and put their pants on just like everyone else. I found Hal Herring’s article long, but he was trying to thoroughly cover a big subject. I believe it is a fair representation of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. SFW/SFH in Idaho […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
‘Psychotic mutant retards’ on the loose
How appalling to see so many lunatic hairless apes with guns in “Predator hunters for the environment.” The ugly and ignorant gene link is proven by these stupid-looking white-trash rednecks. There is no reverence for life or self-control, much less “conservation” in the pages of this issue. When future generations research conservation and come across […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
‘Prop up that bear’s head, Karl’
Although they were painful to look at, I am glad you put the photographs of glory-hungry hunters posing with the animals they killed in the June 25 issue. New conservationists indeed! Their motives are those of Layne Bangerter, who, as natural resources advisor to Idaho’s governor, claims it is normal to “want animals to hunt, […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
Maybe Murdoch will bid for HCN next
While I find many of your recent articles highly relevant, even vital, to those of us who love (or loathe) the West, the quality of writing and editing is sometimes disappointing. Hal Herring stepped well past the line of good judgment with his comment that it would be fun to hunt coyotes with a machine […]
Posted inJuly 23, 2007: Hydrogen Highway Revisited
We shall overcome
Hal Herring exalts Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife (SFW) and contends that sportsmen alone should be given the credit for wildlife protection because they paid for wildlife management “through the decades into a variety of revenue streams.” That logic is flawed for two reasons. Herring glides over the fact that during the last century many […]