Time magazine recently gave Westerners a good laugh. Time’s “Your Technology” columnist, Anita Hamilton, wrote about her road test of a new satellite radio network. You’ve probably heard of satellite radio – it’s the latest breakthrough, promising to beam signals from orbit to your car radio whether you’re in Stinking Desert, Ariz., or Sodden Pass, […]
Westerners share a different reality
Posted inMarch 4, 2002: Seed in the ground
You can call mine Mortgage Manor
Lupine Lodge. Del Mar at the Sea. Massive Mountain Manor. Harbor House at the Pines. I have changed the names to protect the ostentatious; to protect those who not only must own four luxury homes in four different places, but also pick and register names for them. I didn’t think I was capable of being […]
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Marijuana’s boring sibling
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Hemp and marijuana are fraternal twins: While they look similar, the plants are actually quite different. Agricultural hemp has only miniscule amounts of the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that exists in marijuana; those trace levels are not enough to induce a chemical high. Cultivated […]
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Colorado oil shale gets a second look
Shell Oil hopes pilot project will go commercial
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Development threatens historic town
Does Washington’s growth law do its job?
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EPA wants to supersize Idaho Superfund site
State and federal officials squabble over how to clean up the Silver Valley
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Ghost of the Selkirks fading fast
Funding woes and predation have last U.S. caribou herd on the ropes
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Is a coal mine pumping the Hopi dry?
Thirty-six years later, tribe rethinks a money-making agreement
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Klamath Basin II: The saga continues
National Academy of Sciences study produces more controversy in Oregon
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‘His courtroom was a classroom’
“The end of an era” is how Mark Rutzick, attorney for the timber industry, describes the passing of Judge William L. Dwyer, who died Feb. 12 at 72 from complications associated with cancer and Parkinson’s disease. Although the sentiment is perhaps wishful thinking on the part of Rutzick, who lost virtually every case he brought […]
Posted inMarch 4, 2002: Seed in the ground
Dear Friends
An Olympic-sized hangover HCN associate publisher Greg Hanscom, who hails from Park City, Utah, went home during the middle of February, to experience the greatest sports show on earth. He and other family members helped officiate the Winter Olympics’ cross-country ski events, but those duties left plenty of time to revel in Olympic mania and […]
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Seed in the ground
Some Oglala Lakota hope hemp can yield a stable government and a healthy economy
Posted inFebruary 18, 2002: Here lies the Rio Grande
Band-aid environmentalism
Dear HCN, Once a talented surgical team ready to save the world, the environmental movement has devolved into a school nurse dispensing sterile advice and used band-aids. Warning that “time is short,” editor Paul Larmer’s plea for the West as “an island besieged” (HCN, 1/21/02: The American West is an island besieged) presents a brief […]
Posted inFebruary 18, 2002: Here lies the Rio Grande
Pasayten not ugly: HCN slant is
Dear HCN, It constantly amazes me how nasty a slant HCN can put on its articles. If you have to do that to sell your magazines, you should be ashamed of yourselves. The only thing truly ugly about the Pasayten Wilderness (HCN, 12/17/01: A crowded Washington wilderness gets ugly) is Martha Hall and the other […]
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‘Finding the words’ a spear to the heart
Dear HCN, Michelle Nijhuis’ “Finding the Words” (HCN, 1/21/02: Finding the words) leaves me struggling to “find words” to convey my grief, once again, for the injustice done to our native peoples. A well-sharpened spear to my heart; I have not wept with that sort of compassion and anger in a very long time, the […]
Posted inFebruary 18, 2002: Here lies the Rio Grande
If you want to save it, buy it
Dear HCN, I realize I’m a little late writing to you about your coalbed methane article (HCN, 11/5/01: Wyoming’s powder keg), but I wanted to provide a viewpoint that probably isn’t shared by many of your readers. What I understand from the article is that some landowners are upset at the development of coalbed methane […]
Posted inFebruary 18, 2002: Here lies the Rio Grande
A great read, but does it compute?
Dear HCN, First off, I’d like to lavish HCN with praises for putting together such a jolly good read, for sure – then, secondly, for also being well-congealed with quotable info regarding the state of our Western environs … perhaps. Explanation: In his letter of Dec. 3, 2001, regarding Randy Udall’s opinion, “We are the […]
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Groundswell for a monument?
UTAH After President Clinton used the Antiquities Act to establish Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 1996, Gov. Mike Leavitt railed against the move as an abuse of executive power. But during his State of the State address this Jan. 28, Leavitt asked President Bush for something that made environmentalists’ jaws hit the floor: a 620,000-acre […]
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Entrepreneur shovels trouble
UTAH Archaeologists don’t dig Anasazi Digs. The family-owned business on private land near Monticello, Utah, invites customers to excavate – and keep – artifacts from an Anasazi pueblo for $2,500 a day. “It’s like owning a Van Gogh painting and cutting it into lots of pieces,” says Utah state archaeologist Kevin Jones. “The owner could […]
Posted inFebruary 18, 2002: Here lies the Rio Grande
Dunes shifts toward park status
COLORADO Rural communities often cringe at the prospect of the federal government owning more land. But residents in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are breathing a sigh of relief now that their valley is one step closer to becoming home to a new national park. In January, The Nature Conservancy signed an agreement to buy a […]