Proposal from Colorado resort towns would expand guest-worker program
Resort counties push for legal workers
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
Global market squeezes sheep ranchers
Foreign competition, low prices drive some ranchers out
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
Outspoken Yellowstone ranger gagged
Bob Jackson silenced on salt lick problem
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
‘Scholarship, sainthood and simplicity’
Frank C. Craighead Jr., a world-renowned grizzly bear researcher, environmentalist and author, died in Jackson, Wyo., on Oct 21. He was 85. Craighead and his brother, John, who lives in Missoula, Mont., were best known for their pioneering research on the great bear, Ursus arctos horribilis. Among the first people to track wildlife using radio […]
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
Dear Friends
Balmy weather It’s been an unusual fall here on Colorado’s West Slope. Unseasonably warm days and nights not only prolonged the vivid display of blazing aspens in the high country, but also kept the equally resplendent river-bottom color alive all the way into early November. The balmy air seemed to ripen leaves like fruit: Foliage […]
Posted inNovember 19, 2001: Bringing back the bosque
Bringing back the bosque
Pueblo tribes take the lead in restoring the Rio Grande’s riverside forest
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Long’s speculations unhelpful
Dear HCN, It’s clear that Ben Long simply used his impression and interpretation of something that happened nearly 60 years ago to write an article about an unfortunate event in American history that, I’m sure, all Americans wish had never occurred (HCN, 10/8/01: Lessons of an intolerant past). Was it wrong to intern those Japanese […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Port Angeles deserves credit
Dear HCN, As one involved in political discussions that led to the Elwha River legislation, and to progress made for dam removal, I think Adam Burke deserves an A- (nobody is perfect) for his article “River of dreams” (HCN, 9/24/01: River of dreams). I am sure Burke discovered this is a complicated story with many […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
A stark contrast to truck hunters
Dear HCN, Although I long ago gave up hunting, it was refreshing to read such a sensitive, respectful view of nature, wilderness and wildlife as was depicted in Tom Reed’s essay, “In the house of the grizzly” (HCN, 9/24/01: In the house of the grizzly). I wish many more hunters and people out for recreation […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Welcome to (your name here), Wyoming
If you have hankered all your life to have a town named after you, the opportunity arose last June at the Casper, Wyo., Holiday Inn. A High Plains municipality named Jeffrey City went on the auction block for cheap, complete with water and sewer, pavement, tract houses, apartments, a post office, and beer on tap. […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Curriculum for a desert classroom
Nearly a decade ago, Christine Beekman of the National Park Service stepped outside of the visitor center classroom and into the desert of southeast Utah, leading a boisterous third-grade class into a maze of sandstone formations. She organized a game designed to teach the students about predator-prey relations in ecosystems, dividing the kids into groups […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Buying into salmon recovery
Shopping smart just became a way to help imperiled Northwest salmon. The new Chinook Book is the region’s first salmon-friendly resource and coupon guide to restaurants, recreation, food and household products. Created by the Celilo Group, a Portland, Ore.-based environmental consulting firm, the $18 book contains $5,000 worth of coupons for products like soaker hoses, […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Utah’s flower child
Flower aficionado Paul Ames is no pansy: Gathering wildflower seeds under a Utah sun is hot, back-breaking work. Besides, he dislikes the pansy. It and all exotic flowers, he believes, are pampered intruders that drink too much water and don’t belong in a desert state. For the past three years, Ames has been a champion […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
All’s fair in smog and waste?
Ever wonder if being a renter increases your risk of cancer from hazardous air pollutants? Or whether your income level correlates to how far you live from a Superfund site? Now, by entering your ZIP code into a new Web site, you can get answers to questions like these, based on data collected from your […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Pedal where Lewis and Clark paddled
In 1976, a time when bikes were still mostly for kids and cross-country cycling was virtually unheard of, a few friends got together to map a bicycling route across the U.S. in celebration of the nation’s bicentennial. Twenty-five years and 25,000 miles of bike trails later, the group, the Adventure Cycling Association, is attempting to […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Ferrets weasel onto public lands
MONTANA The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found that successful reintroduction of the black-footed ferret is nearly as rare and elusive as the weasel-like predators themselves. So when the Bureau of Land Management asked the agency this summer for an allotment of ferrets for release in less than ideal habitat, it ranked the request […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Navajo-Hopi dispute persists
ARIZONA In early September, the roar of bulldozers and chainsaws in the remote desert of the Hopi Reservation gave modern resonance to an ancient feud. Hopi officials destroyed a site sacred to Navajo Sun Dancers, even removing the site’s “Tree of Life.” The act was the latest in more than a century of dispute over […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
The Latest Bounce
Has the Department of Interior blown its last chance to straighten out the Indian trust fund fiasco (HCN, 1/31/00: Judge rules on Indian money mess)? Over the past several months, a court-appointed monitor has reported that the agency filed inaccurate and false reports about its progress in untangling the case. Now, the Native American Rights […]
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Heard around the West
Where’s Humpty Dumpty when we need him? The egg on the other side of the looking-glass told Alice that “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” The word in question these days is “organic,” whose definition counts a lot in the booming billion-dollar […]