The flames have illuminated – and possibly strengthened – the park’s intimate connections with its neighbors
Fires burn through boundaries at Mesa Verde
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
Protect yourself from wildfires
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article,”Home is where the heat is.” The Montana Division of Disaster and Emergency Services has a few suggestions for making your home more fire safe: Copyright © 2000 HCN and Mark Matthews This article appeared in the print […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
Home is where the heat is
Federal firefighters save houses while the West’s woods burn
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
Dear Friends
The bears are in town Summer in Paonia has been an absolute bear. Cool mornings fairly burst into flame once the sun rolls over the top of Jumbo Mountain. Daytime temperatures hover in the 90s. The heat has sent many of us hiking for the high country. But even the mountains are dry, and that […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
Down the Rio Grande, one piece at a time
Ernie Atencio’s cover story about Questa, N.M., and the story on page 3 about the silvery minnow are the latest installments in our series on the Rio Grande. We kicked off the series, funded by the McCune Foundation, last fall with a special issue titled, “Imagine a River” (HCN, 10/11/99: Imagine a river). Most series […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
‘The mine is everything’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. “Laura Griego” is fervently loyal to thecompany that has employed her husband for 30 years. At her request, we are not using her real name. Laura Griego: “The mine is everything, really, because it’s given us everything. If Molycorp wasn’t here, we wouldn’t have […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
‘A mine divides a community’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Life-long resident Berlinda Trujillo has been involved in labor and environmental struggles stemming from the Molycorp mine for over 30 years. Berlinda Trujillo: “Of course, a mine divides a community. You can’t even talk environmental issues, because if somebody else is not for it, […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
‘If you want the jobs, you’re going to have to deal with it’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Alice Martinez, shown above left at the Questa Senior Center, says she lived a good life because of the mine, where her husband worked for many years. Alice Martinez: “We had a group of Concerned Citizens here in Questa. And they were forever – […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
The life and times of a mining town
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. 1921 Molybdenum Corp. of America (later abbreviated to Molycorp) begins underground mining in the Red River Canyon east of Questa, milling 50 tons of ore per day. Miners and their families live on site in a self-contained company town. 1964-5 As high-grade veins of […]
Posted inAugust 28, 2000: The mine that turned the Red River blue
The mine that turned the Red River blue
Activists turn the tables on the biggest, slipperiest mine in the Rio Grande watershed
Posted inApril 24, 2000: At your service: Unions help some Western workers serve themselves
Dear Friends
It’s sprung Apricot, peach and apple trees are blooming – perhaps unwisely – in western Colorado. Recently, we received a welcome to spring from Greg Hobbs, a reader of High Country News and a Colorado Supreme Court Justice. He calls his poem “Right Equipment,” and it punctuates the longed-for change in season: The urban West […]
Posted inAugust 20, 2007: Bonfire of the Superweeds
Bonfire of the Superweeds
In the Sonoran Desert, good intentions combust
Posted inAugust 14, 2000: Meth invasion
Interior secretaries have what it takes
Dear HCN, Some Westerners seem to believe that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is the only one who ever moved, under presidential direction, to encourage the preservation of land and water under national monument designation. America has had 48 secretaries of the Interior. Since the passage by Congress in 1906 of the act that allows presidents […]
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We’ve done it wrong for a long time
Dear HCN, I am concerned about the call to logging put forward in Frank Carroll’s essay, “Los Alamos is burning” (HCN, 5/22/00: Los Alamos is burning), and I am concerned about the “BLM … planting millions of acres in non-native crested wheatgrass.” I am a biologist who used to work for the BLM in eastern […]
Posted inAugust 14, 2000: Meth invasion
Open your mind to Mexico
Dear HCN, Let me calm down a minute here before trying to respond to Denver’s Wayne Schnell. His bigotry in the July 3 issue deserves some comment and analysis. First, Mr. Schnell, if you want Mexican nationals to stop coming to the U.S., stop hiring them to do the work you disdain or find some […]
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When the pot calls the kettle black
Dear HCN, In Jon Margolis’ article on “property rightsniks’ (HCN, 6/5/00: Can ‘property rightsniks’ stop a popular bill?), he says, “Mainly, though, the very irrationality of the opponents is rational. Their purpose is not to make sense, nor even to win votes, but to oppose, and to prosper while doing it. Cushman’s American Land Rights […]
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Nature Writers Retreat
Northwest authors Tim McNulty, Stephanie Mills, Robert Michael Pyle and Susan Zwinger will teach their writing secrets at the Nature Writers Retreat near Leavenworth, Wash. From Sept. 24-27, participants will learn the tools of observation, metaphor and character development. For more information, call the North Cascades Institute at 360/856-5700 ext. 209; e-mail: nci@ncascades.org or visit […]
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Learning from the Monument
Agency managers, environmentalists, lawyers and legislators hope to shed light on land protection in the West by analyzing the designation of Grand Staircase-Escalante as a national monument. Learning from the Monument is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 15, at the University of Utah College of Law in Salt Lake City. To […]
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14th Annual National Forest Reform Rally
Forest activists unite at the 14th Annual National Forest Reform Rally in Romayor, Texas, from Sept. 15-17. Participants will attend workshops on maintaining roadless areas, restoring ecosystems and ending old-growth logging, among other topics. Registration fees received before Aug. 28 are $35; late registration costs $45. Contact the Forest Reform Network, c/o Texas Committee on […]
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After Lewis and Clark: Explorer Artists and the American West
The journals and paintings of four artists, including George Catlin, who explored the Rocky Mountains after Lewis and Clark, will be featured at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, Idaho. After Lewis and Clark: Explorer Artists and the American West is on display until Sept. 29, and then moves to the Boise […]