While Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen might not be household names, their animation in movies such as Jason and the Argonauts and the original King Kong is memorable. You can see their work at the University of Wyoming’s Art Museum in Laramie, now through Nov. 14, in an exhibit called From Como Bluff to Cultural […]
From Como Bluff to Cultural Icon: Our Enduring Fascination with Dinosaurs
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Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance
Field trips organized by the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance include a jaunt to see the Snake River Restoration Project and a visit to a natural gas field under development near Pinedale. For a complete schedule, contact Heather Thomas, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, P.O. Box 2728, Jackson, WY 83001 (307/733-9417). This article appeared in the print […]
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Montana Governor’s Range Tour
Six ranches around the remote town of Jordan will hold the 1999 Montana Governor’s Range Tour, Sept. 8-9, highlighting successful ranch management techniques, such as controlled burning, and growing alternative crops. Contact Jodi Pierson of the Garfield Conservation District at 406/557-2740 or the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation at 406/444-6667. This article appeared […]
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Water in the West: The Challenge for the Next Century
In February, we told readers that they could acquire Water in the West: The Challenge for the Next Century on CD-ROM. However, just the fortunate few who called before it ran out were successful. Now it is again in stock and available through the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission. Contact them at 303/445-2100; fax […]
Posted inAugust 2, 1999: Jon Marvel vs. the Marlboro Man
Wild Rockies Rendezvous
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies knows how to have a meeting. Its 14th Wild Rockies Rendezvous, Sept. 17-19 in the Rattlesnake Mountains at Snowbowl, Missoula, Mont., includes live music along with workshops. The keynote speaker is Martha Marks, president of Republicans for Environmental Protection. Contact Bob Clark, P.O. Box 8731, Missoula, MT 59807 (406/721-5420); […]
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Tom Chapman: A small-town boy who made good
PAONIA, Colo. – Many Westerners see Tom Chapman as a scourge who extracts millions from taxpayers by threatening to develop private land within national parks and wilderness areas. To me, he is just a local Paonia boy who made good. Starting in the 1980s with nothing more than a real estate broker’s license, an ability […]
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Heard around the West
A rodeo held in Aurora, Colo., in July attracted 114 gay men and women to compete in he-man stuff like bareback bronc-riding. “We are true to the Western spirit,” said bull rider J.D. Norton in The Denver Post. “We are cowboys and cowgirls, even though we have a different private lifestyle.” Because it’s not professional […]
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The quiet Takings Project is trespassing on democracy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a modern brick building across Lafayette Park from the White House, on a one-block street called Madison Place, several judicial officers of the United States government are engaged in a … in a … well, in what seems to be a conspiracy to subvert it. Not doing a bad job of […]
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Tribes find a future in the past
DENVER, Colo. – The students were three men and two women, all members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge, S.D. Last spring, they enrolled in a new, pilot course at their tribe’s Oglala Lakota College. This class was so unique, the professor said, it was best taught on the prairie. Some of its […]
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The river comes last
Deep in the Wyoming wilderness and high above tree line, glacial cirques collect and funnel pure alpine waters from Cloud Peak’s 13,000-foot summit down to the muddy torrent of the Bighorn River. Draining north into Montana, the river transects the Crow Indian reservation, where it is joined by the Little Bighorn, famous as the site […]
Posted inAugust 2, 1999: Jon Marvel vs. the Marlboro Man
Dear Friends
Now hear this The half-hour Radio High Country News is expanding. Starting this month, the interview program that takes the West as its beat can be heard in Carbondale, Colo., on KDNK, Mondays at 4:30 p.m.; in Taos, N.M., and Alamosa, Colo., on KRZA, Fridays at 7 p.m.; and in Telluride, Colo., on KOTO, Tuesdays […]
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‘I think we can work with ranchers’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. A fisherman and a hunter, Herb Meyr is a retired Air Force pilot in Mountain Home, Idaho, who spends a lot of his time working as a volunteer with groups such as the Idaho Wildlife Council, the Idaho chapter of Foundation for North American […]
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‘We’re trying to turn up the heat’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Laird Lucas graduated from Yale Law School in 1986, worked for a federal judge, and then went into “high-pressure” litigation at a large San Francisco law firm. He has been with the nonprofit Land and Water Fund in Boise, Idaho, for the last six […]
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‘Jon Marvel is the wing nut’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Based in Emmett, Idaho, Brad Little is a third-generation sheep and cattle rancher. He has been active in range-reform efforts for more than a decade; this year, he joined the board of directors of High Country News. Recently, he talked about his neighbor Jon […]
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‘My response is reasonable’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. JON MARVEL: “I want to destabilize the system we’ve got now, where 20 percent of ranchers in Idaho use public lands they’ve degraded or destroyed. I think my response is reasonable – I’m reacting to large-scale abuse by a tiny group of people. “The […]
Posted inAugust 2, 1999: Jon Marvel vs. the Marlboro Man
Jon Marvel vs. the Marlboro Man
Note: this feature story includes four sidebar articles: Jon Marvel, rancher Brad Little, Land and Water Fund lawyer Laird Lucas, and Air Force pilot and environmentalist Herb Meyr give their perspectives in their own words. SILVER CITY, Idaho – Imagine a silver-haired 52-year-old fellow walking into a saloon in this remote mountain town in the […]
Posted inJuly 5, 1999: The new faces of the West
About those park ranger hats
Dear HCN, I can definitely do without dumb poorly drawn cartoons by Jim Stiles (HCN, 5/24/99). First, I’m sure the Park Service rangers do not take it upon themselves to raise fees, and they do need more money because there are more people using our facilities. Second, they may “pack” guns because, let’s face it, […]
Posted inJuly 5, 1999: The new faces of the West
Californicating carpetbaggers
Dear HCN, Dan Flores (-In Montana: The view from the ranchette,” HCN, 5/10/99) is technically correct when he writes that A.B. Guthrie Jr. was a Midwesterner. It is misleading, however, to accuse the author of The Big Sky of being just another hypocritical carpetbagger Californicating Montana while criticizing others for doing so. In 1901, his […]
Posted inJuly 5, 1999: The new faces of the West
Mountaineers’ support was anything but secret
Dear HCN, Andy Wiessner needs no defense from me or any other conservationist to support his environmental credentials over many years. However, I do want to correct the erroneous and libelous comments in Ben Twight’s letter (HCN, 5/24/99) about the Mountaineers and my role in the Forest Service-Plum Creek land exchange. I have been a […]
Posted inJuly 5, 1999: The new faces of the West
Look who’s calling who weird
Dear HCN, There is nothing “weird” about Death Valley (HCN, 5/24/99). What is weird is High Country News’ attitude about any expanse of land that does not have a bunch of trees on it. Maybe what we need is a publication called Low Country News, which will have a positive attitude regarding the deserts and […]