Lovers of land and culture, writers, and scientists will explore the relationships between religious traditions, sacred stories and scientific facts at the 17th Sitka Symposium, June 15-21 in Sitka, Alaska. Writers can submit manuscripts for critique by May 19. Contact the Island Institute at 907/747-3794 for more information, or write to Box 2420, Sitka, AK […]
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Posted inMay 8, 2000: After the fall
30-minute documentary, “Voice of the Centenarian: Hazel Wolf’
Lifelong social and environmental activist Hazel Wolf will be honored in a 30-minute documentary, “Voice of the Centenarian: Hazel Wolf,” narrated by Carole King. The producer is seeking footage of Wolf, who died in January. If you have material of her in action – making speeches, protesting, meeting with politicians – contact Gayle Podrabsky, 206/285-7806 […]
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Indian Country Today’s Pow Wow 2000
Celebrate the traditions of America’s native people with Indian Country Today’s Pow Wow 2000 guide, a comprehensive schedule of Native American pow wows across the nation. The guide includes the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow in Albuquerque, N.M., and National Indian Days in White Swan, Wash. Each listing includes contact number for more information. To […]
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We can do it ourselves
It was 1970, and people were dropping out in droves. Wood stoves were replacing electric heat, milk cartons were transforming wax into candles. Someone noted that more pottery was created during the ’70s than during the history of mankind – perhaps an exaggeration. One of the gurus for back-to-the-landers 30 years ago was a woman […]
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Telluride’s MountainFilm
If the past is guide, the 22nd MountainFilm in Telluride this May will be more than the sum of its parts. The individual elements will be impressive – a day-long opening symposium on the Andes and miles of celluloid about nature, other cultures, and jocks playing on rocks, glaciers and rivers. But the power of […]
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A bear of a plan
Grizzly bears could be reintroduced to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area in a little more than a year, if a final environmental impact statement proceeds as planned. The Fish and Wildlife Service’s preferred alternative of the grizzly plan calls for a citizen’s management committee to oversee reintroduction of a non-essential experimental grizzly bear population. The Interior […]
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Logging doesn’t cut it
A sea of evergreens, uninterrupted by roads or clear-cut; an eroding mountainside, barren of everything but stumps and broken branches. Ancient Forests: The Power of Place, a 30-minute educational video, uses this contrast to paint a compelling picture of logging’s siege on Northwest forests. The video from Green Fire Productions, a nonprofit filmmaking organization, takes […]
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Look at that big plant!
Some fertilizer sold in Washington state since 1996 contained uranium and other wastes from the production of nuclear reactor fuel; in fact, before the state’s Department of Agriculture issued a stop-sale order on Feb. 17, over 390,000 gallons of the material had been distributed. State health officials found out about the product after a Seattle […]
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Green and steel – together at last
When junk bonder Charles Hurwitz bought up Kaiser Aluminum and Pacific Lumber, then accelerated cutting of ancient California redwoods and locked out his employees, he didn’t know he was creating a new political movement. Yet outrage at Hurwitz’s tactics forged an unconventional alliance between labor and environmentalism. Just six months ago, locked-out United Steelworkers members […]
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Forest Service Volunteer Program
The Forest Service Volunteer Program for the Rocky Mountain region is looking for backcountry rangers, campground hosts and workers for research projects and trail maintenance, among others. For a copy of the agency’s Volunteer Directory, write Volunteer Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, 324 25th St., Ogden, UT 84401, call 801/625-5175, fax 801/625-5170, e-mail blyons@fs.fed.us, or visit […]
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Connecting Our Land and Cultures
The National Park Service and its parent agency, the Department of the Interior, are sponsoring a conference to help land managers on the Colorado Plateau develop effective resource education programs. Connecting Our Land and Cultures will be held July 9-14 in Las Vegas, Nev. Register through June 9 by calling Carol Kruse at 520/526-1157 ext. […]
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Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste
One-page abstracts are being sought for next January’s Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste in Fort Collins, Colo. Offer your ideas on milling, geotechnics, tailings management or related topics by June 2. For information or to present an abstract, contact Linda Hinshaw, Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372, 970/491-6081, fax […]
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Take a load off
Forget llamas, goats or horses, says the Bureau of Land Management. Burros are better for packing equipment into the backcountry. That’s the message the federal agency is trying to get across to baby boomers, says Tom Taylor of Mesa, Ariz., a volunteer who takes his burro, Hualapai, to community events to talk up the adopt-a-burro […]
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Bart: Still a trooper
Bart, the 1,500-pound star of The Bear and most recently The Edge (co-starring Anthony Hopkins), missed out on the Academy Awards a couple of weeks ago. But the 23-year-old actor and coastal Kodiak grizzly will be appearing this month on the small screen as spokesbear for Colorado State University’s Animal Cancer Center’s new research facility. […]
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Montana’s anti-Indian movement multiplies
A report by the Montana Human Rights Network says groups dedicated to undermining Indian sovereignty and culture are on the rise. Formed in 1990, in response to white supremacist and other hate groups in Montana, the Human Rights Network calls the anti-Indian movement “racist to the core.” Ken Toole, who wrote the 47-page report, Drumming […]
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Beauty and Solitude
There are approximately 80 places in the United States where artists of all kinds can go to compose, paint, write, sculpt and photograph. These artists’ communities, which are mostly on the coasts, accommodate about 4,000 visitors a year. If all goes well, there will soon be a new one just outside Zion National Park in […]
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BLM needs a new identity
Dear HCN, Your “Beyond the Revolution” articles about the future of the new West could have included mention of the long-discussed proposal to place the BLM-managed lands into a National Public Lands System, similar to the national forest, national parks, and national wildlife refuge systems that protect our forests, parks and refuges. The BLM lands […]
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It’s a rotten revolution
Dear HCN, Judging from publisher Ed Marston’s April 10 article, “Beyond the Revolution,” High Country News has abandoned all pretext of balanced treatment of environmental news. For Mr. Marston to assume that the four Snake River dams will be breached, and for him to completely ignore the vitally important issue of Western private land intermixed […]
Posted inMay 8, 2000: After the fall
The fragmented West
Dear HCN, I read, carefully, each of the separate articles in the HCN special issue of April 10, and I’ve come to my own conclusion: We’re in a trap with no exit. Balkanization will be the model. Duke HaydukBluff, Utah This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The fragmented […]
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Extractive industries are not dead yet
Dear HCN, Ed Marston writes that the war between extractive interests and the environmental movement is drawing to a close and the enviro movement won (HCN, 4/10/00: Beyond the Revolution). Like the person who reads about his death in the paper, reports of the demise of extractive interests are greatly exaggerated. We will always have […]