Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. State trust land may have a single purpose, but each state has a different way of doing business. Most Western states lease trust land for logging and grazing, and many states have huge subsurface holdings that earn millions from mineral development. A few states […]
This land might be your land
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A ‘shroom boom rises from the ashes
Mushroom hunters descend on Montana’s fire-scorched national forests
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Forestry nominee: Rey of light or death Rey?
‘Mastermind’ of salvage logging rider would oversee U.S. Forest Service
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Tragedy re-ignites wildfire debate
Blaze in Washington’s Methow Valley kills four
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A local heroine
We ran into Paonia’s foremost scientist near our office a few evenings ago, where she was arguing with the cash machine at First National Bank. It beeped insistently at her, until she pushed the right combination of buttons and got it to disgorge her credit card and some cash. It was a rare sighting. Dr. […]
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Dear Friends
Babies in the family Congratulations to Florence and Jamie Williams of Helena, Mont., on the birth of Benjamin Chesnut Williams on Thursday, July 12. Ben’s stats are 8 pounds and a shade over 20 inches long. Florence is a former HCN staffer and intern who freelances out of Helena. Her most recent HCN article was […]
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Not in our backyard
Arizona activists find common ground on state lands
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Sovereignty: never having to say ‘may I’
Dear HCN, I want to comment on Bruce Selcraig’s article, “Tribal Links” (HCN, 6/4/01: Tribal Links). Someone – Charlie Rose, I think – asked Sherman Alexie about the morality, the vibes of Indian casinos. Like, is it a “good” thing to do? Alexie said he was more concerned with the morality of having enough to […]
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Rocks that look like chimneys
Dear HCN, Couldn’t help but notice the page 7 photo, “Power Site: Chimney Rock, New Mexico (Dale Schicketanz photo),” in the recent issue I received (HCN, 5/21/01). The Chimney Rock in the photo framed by those “National Scenic Powerlines,” is six miles north of New Mexico in Colorado (on the Ute Mountain Reservation lands, along […]
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Not all tribes like golf
Dear HCN, It isn’t often I see a story so well-written and, at the same time, so accurate as “Tribal Links” (HCN, 6/4/01: Tribal Links). Mr. Selcraig is to be complimented for managing the nearly impossible, colorful, sometimes flip characterizations and turns of phrase that are right on the money! I enjoyed reading that article […]
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Ed Marston’s revisionism
Dear HCN, Ed Marston wrote: “Environmentalism in the West is no longer a puny movement struggling to get the attention of the American public. For eight years, we sat at the right hand of power in the Clinton administration, working a revolution. “We had that power because the American people have bought into environmentalism and […]
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Greens are still a minority
Dear HCN, High Country News publisher Ed Marston reacted to Sacramento Bee reporter Tom Knudson’s unflattering “Environment, Inc.” series on the fancy finances of the professional Green movement (HCN, 6/4/01: Environmentalism meets a fierce friend) by declaring “environmentalists must be led by relatively well-paid leaders backed by professional staffs,” just like their corporate PR enemies. […]
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Missing: One truckload of fuel
COLORADO After a six-month search, more than 7,000 gallons of diesel fuel are still missing from a Summit County ski resort. In January, when the fuel was delivered to Copper Mountain, the driver reportedly pumped it into a water-quality monitoring well instead of an underground storage tank. Although officials were able to recover 150 gallons […]
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The Latest Bounce
On June 21, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the $18.9 billion Interior Department appropriations bill. The legislation bans drilling in national monuments (HCN, 4/23/01: Monuments caught in the crosshairs), and prevents the Bush administration from reversing the 3809 hard-rock mining reform rule (HCN, 2/12/01: New mining regs slip into rulebooks). The Senate is currently […]
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Heard around the West
With fast-growing lawns in the West sucking down immense amounts of water, Andrew McKean of Helena, Mont., passes on two apropos comments. The first is from University of Utah political scientist Daniel McCool: “Utah doesn’t have a water problem; Utah has a Kentucky bluegrass problem.” The second comes from the side of a bus spotted […]
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The greening of the Nevada Test Site
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Deep inside the Nevada Test Site, in a moonscape of craters and radioactive ruin left by nearly 1,000 nuclear bombs, Stephen Zitzer lies face down, his hands plunged into a creosote bush. Stark, white upright pipes encircle him like soldiers. Each pipe silently puffs […]
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A bitter valley waits
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. – “Yea, though we live in the shadows of Death Valley and Yucca Mountain, we will not fear,” it said on the T-shirt of the man in front of me as I checked into the Longstreet Inn and Casino in Amargosa […]
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A maverick mayor takes on sprawl
Salt Lake’s Rocky Anderson fights the ‘highways first’ establishment
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Tribes fight to clear the roads for salmon
Washington fears lawsuit could give tribes sweeping control of salmon habitat
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Varmint hunters sidelined in Wyoming
The Forest Service takes a stand for prairie dogs