Imagine my surprise when I discovered the article “Our Green Mountain” by The Old Crock, Jaime O’Neill, in your Oct. 2 issue. The Green Mountain Gazette was a labor of love of many in an isolated mountain community dedicated to bringing a difference in the lives of its readers. We struggled to publish an alternative […]
Labor of love
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
The other side of the story
Being a faithful subscriber to the High Country News, I read your Oct. 2 article about The Horse Fly. It contains many inaccuracies. For example, the article talks about Taos Pueblo’s proposed casino at the Kachina Lodge near downtown. It quotes Bill Whaley, proprietor of The Horse Fly, as saying: “The Taos News wouldn’t touch […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
The de-conglomerating media
I was a bit disappointed with the Oct. 2 issue of HCN devoted to grassroots journalism in the West. For starters, it neglected to mention that some evidence suggests the long trend toward conglomerate takeover of local papers, a great rallying point for the alternative press, may be starting to reverse itself. It also omitted […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
How vain, how self-absorbed
The cutesie photos of the “indie news” types and a self-absorbed article about self-absorbed people writing news make me realize that unless you have a certain “look” and immodest attitude about how “unique” you are, reading HCN really has no meaning (HCN, 10/2/06: From the ground up). Could you tell me if the staff members […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Chappaquiddick vs. Three Mile Island
After reading Jonathan Thompson’s article “Reborn” in the Sept. 4, 2006, issue, I wondered if anyone recalls the 1979-’80 statement: “More people died at Chappaquiddick than died at Three Mile Island.” C.C. Michel Odessa, Texas This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Chappaquiddick vs. Three Mile Island.
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
In search of greener pastures
Name Laina Corazon Coit Age 55 Vocation Hemp ice cream maker Home Base Near Briggsdale, Colo. Noted for Working to create Colorado’s first green burial grounds, on the eastern prairie She says “I’m for earthworms. We intend to use every possible way to make sure the land remains sacred to the grave sites and the […]
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Pueblo water battle nears its end
Aamodt case tries to untangle centuries of water use in northern New Mexico
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Can the West become the new South?
Western primary could give the Rockies a louder voice in Washington
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Two weeks in the West
“It won’t be serving the Wal-Mart and Kentucky Fried Chicken crowd.” — Jeania Joseph, town clerk for Big Water, Utah, referring to the $200 million Amangiri resort slated for construction near Lake Powell. It will boast $6 million villas, $1,200 a night rooms, and a 100,000-square-foot-spa. EPA boots soot, sort of. Fine particles of soot […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Life in the transition zone
The last time I knocked on Luis Torres’ front door in San Pedro, N.M., he was inside on the phone, talking and joking in a rapid-fire combination of Spanish and English that made my head spin. On the other end of the phone was Alfonso Chacon, a forest contractor featured in this issue’s cover story. […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Biomass: What to do with all that wood
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico’s Forests.” SANTA FE, New Mexico — Driving through the thickly forested mountains around New Mexico’s state capital, Mark Sardella doesn’t daydream about his next camping trip. Instead, he thinks about the untapped heat locked up in all those […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Dear friends
HCN BOARD MEETING The fall meeting of the High Country News Board of Directors, held in Missoula, Mont., focused on the rapidly changing world of publishing, especially the growing prominence of the Internet as a news source. Web master Paolo Bacigalupi walked board members through our Web site, hcn.org, and explained our strategy for turning […]
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Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico’s Forests
Out of the angry thickets of the past, environmentalists and loggers cut a new path
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These are my public lands, partner
“Somebody owns it,” my father said, sweeping his hand across the Pocono Mountains zipping by the windshield. I was a young boy when he told me this, and I can remember being puzzled by how someone could own a mountain. If you grew up in Pennsylvania as I did, you understood that just about everything […]
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Self-styled conservatives are the cheapest generation
I was brought up to believe that we had a moral obligation to leave our corner of the world better off than we found it. In recent years, I am haunted by the notion that the people we have elected to represent us — many of them self-styled conservatives — may be the first in […]
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The right way to be green
The midterm elections are approaching fast, and as usual the environment is considered a Democratic issue. I had no problem with that when I was fighting strip mines in Ohio in 1973; environmentalism was synonymous with leftist politics. In the early ’80s, when a friend told me someone named Dave Foreman was forming an environmental […]
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When bison gawk back, it’s smart to back down
Each time I visit Yellowstone National Park, I watch people ignore park regulations (and common sense) that say you should keep a distance of at least 25 yards from a bison. It’s almost as if folks think they’re in a giant petting zoo. Maybe the video I saw once of a man being gored by […]
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Character in politicians is vastly overrated
It seems that a Colorado candidate for Congress, Angie Paccione, really filed for personal bankruptcy in 2001,as, according to the administrative office of the U.S. Courts, did 1,452,029 other people. Why should anyone care? Because Marilyn Musgrave, the two-term Republican incumbent Paccione is running against, has informed the world about the bankruptcy in a radio […]
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Feeling crowded around here? It is!
One statistic jumped out of the morning paper and jolted my brain. The news was that America’s population will hit 300 million sometime during the third week of October. But it wasn’t that landmark figure that jarred my morning reverie. It was this: The United States population has grown from 200 million to 300 million […]
Posted inOctober 16, 2006: A River Once More
What we love will save us
In troubled political times, go to the mountains.