ARIZONA After 30 years of planning, the Navajo Nation’s Antelope Point Marina may become a reality, despite serious concerns among tribal members. The $60 million development, planned for the south shore of Lake Powell, occupies a piece of land that straddles the Navajo Reservation and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The project had been bogged […]
Navajos at odds about marinas
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
The latest bounce
Many Western cities and states spent last year’s election season fighting about growth (HCN, 10/23/00: Colorado’s growth amendment rouses voters). Now, a recent study has assessed the damage. The Brookings Institution report says that citizens in 38 states and hundreds of cities, towns and counties voted on 553 growth-related measures, and close to three-quarters of […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
State to coyote hunters: Let the games begin
UTAH Those who spent $19.95 on one of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee’s cuddly replicas of “Copper the Coyote,” a mascot for the 2002 Winter Olympics, could have gotten the little guy for free. Or, at least in exchange for gunning down a real coyote and sending its ears to local county officials. The Olympic […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Yellowstone’s last stampede
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. – Every morning, Kitty Enboe dons her thick, green National Park Service uniform and breathes thick, green National Park Service air. As an entrance station attendant in this town snuggled up to Yellowstone’s western border, Enboe occupies ground zero in the fight over snowmobiles in America’s oldest and finest national park. On […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Heard around the West
As far as anyone knows, the dead explorer William Clark did not use a ouija board, or e-mail, or teleport a petition to the White House in the final flurry of Bill Clinton’s presidency. Still, after a couple of centuries, Clark found the president receptive, as did guide Sacajawea and slave York, the first black […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Hung out to dry
When their jobs went south, El Paso’s working people were hung out to dry
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Last stand for a roadside attraction
Proposed development near Cody’s Old Trail Town sparks outrage
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Suburban sprawl hits tribal land
Washington’s Tulalip tribes face a reservation ‘full of strangers’
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Will logging save the spotted owl?
A symbol of conflict struggles to survive
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Dear Friends
Divided waters Our lead story on the lower Rio Grande started out as a class project. Writer Megan Lardner, a graduate student in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, traveled to El Paso and Ciudad Juarez as part of her class with freelance writer and radio producer Sandy Tolan. During his semester as a […]
Posted inMarch 12, 2001: Divided Waters
Divided Waters
A water crisis lurks beneath a sprawling border metropolis
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Decline of whitebark pine could mean hungry grizzlies
Dear HCN, We greatly appreciated the article by Mark Matthews, “Last chance for the whitebark pine” (HCN, 12/4/00: Last chance for the whitebark pine), which described the widespread decline of the once abundant high-elevation whitebark pine ecosystem in the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada. The losses result from the combination of introduced disease (white […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Tome story hits home
Dear HCN, This letter is in response to Greg Hanscom’s article, “Road Block” (HCN, 12/4/00: Road Block). Back in December 1999, during a Christmas visit to my hometown of Albuquerque, I took a drive to the east side of the city and found yet another subdivision in the once empty Elena Gallegos Land Grant. I […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Name that fish!
Dear HCN, Idaho Indian tribes won a long culture war when a legislative committee recently agreed to strike the word “squaw” from the map. But the tribes’ victory doesn’t let anglers off the hook. What are we to call the fish formerly known as squaw? A while back, state and federal agencies agreed to call […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Babbitt didn’t know best
Dear HCN, Ed Marston believes that a reborn Department of Interior under Bruce Babbitt has led America out of the darkness of greedy natural resource extraction interests and into the warm sunlight of enlightened environmentalism
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Working in the trenches
Dear HCN, I enjoy your paper most of the time, but Ed Marston’s essay, “Rearranging the Grid,” struck an especially deep chord (HCN, 1/29/01: Rearranging the Grid). As his long, persistent efforts on the DMEA board have taught him, it may be in the trenches at the heart of our Western civilization that the battle […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Myths of the California energy ‘crisis’
Dear HCN, Paul Larmer makes two fundamental errors in the second paragraph of his article (HCN, 1/29/01: Power on the loose). California deregulation didn’t “require” that power companies sell off their power generation; it just made it attractive to do so in the short term, and shortsighted utilities did just that. However, other utilities, notably […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
Land trust becomes green developer
WASHINGTON For 30 years, a ferocious land-use battle between conservationists and would-be ski and golf resort developers has been waged on 1,020 acres on the banks of Washington’s Methow River (HCN, 11/28/94: Beauty eludes the beast: Washington’s Methow Valley may avoid industrial tourism). Now, an end appears to be in sight. In January, the Trust […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
The latest bounce
The Bonneville Power Administration wants the Northwest to scrap salmon recovery plans (HCN, 8/28/00: he latest salmon plan heads toward a train wreck), so the federal agency can produce more power for the region. Due to low precipitation and expensive power, BPA says if it doesn’t release reservoir water now, the Northwest could be vulnerable […]
Posted inFebruary 26, 2001: Return of the natives
The mythic West and the billionaire
Only after looking over my shoulder as I left the Denver Art Museum did I realize the irony of the exhibit “Painters of the American West.” As usual, the blue neon Qwest signs flooded the Denver skyline. Behind both the art exhibit and Qwest, publicity-shy but firmly in charge, is Philip Anschutz, at last count […]