Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Kathy Goss is a resident of Darwin, California: “I’m a disillusioned environmentalist. I’m disillusioned with the way environmentalists took things into their own hands and pushed something like (the Desert Protection Act) through. Congress signed off on something it had never seen; the boundaries […]
‘I’m really embarrassed’
Posted inMay 24, 1999: The last weird place
Bureau of livestock, mining … and parks?
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. When Al Gore joined President Clinton in 1996 in announcing the creation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, the vice president called it a “great monument to stewardship.” Yet by presidential decree the steward in this case was not the National Park […]
Posted inMay 24, 1999: The last weird place
‘Humans aren’t that bad’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Jim Macey is a resident of Keeler, California: “The park and the Sierra Club have a really dim view of human nature. They equate more humans with more doom, more impact. They say, “Let’s not let anybody do anything.” There are a lot of […]
Posted inMay 24, 1999: The last weird place
‘The more protection we have, the better’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Dick Anderson is an environmental specialist at Death Valley National Park: “There wasn’t complete agreement with the Desert Protection Act within the park. Just because it was the law doesn’t mean it was wholeheartedly supported by the staff, not at all. Myself not included […]
Posted inMay 24, 1999: The last weird place
The last weird place
Can rangers and desert rats coexist in Death Valley?
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
My beautiful ranchette
My name is Susan; I live on a ranchette. In the growth-pained West, this is as serious a confession as alcoholism or cruelty to animals. A year and a half ago, I picked up my local newspaper in Bozeman, Mont., and there under the headline TRACKING SPRAWL was an aerial photo of the Bridger Mountain […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Yellowstone ban on boating is arbitrary
Rachel Odell’s article about the whitewater boating ban in Yellowstone National Park missed the heart of the issue: The standard for use in our national parks which was established by the National Park Service Organic Act in 1916 implies that as long as a use does not damage the resource, the National Park Service should […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
The gorge has been given away
I was appalled to read your recent puff piece about the Bea-Lang house being constructed in a critical place in my home, the Columbia River Gorge (HCN, 2/15/99). Your supposedly objective article claims “a big house slipped through” protections enacted by Congress in 1986. Nonsense. This monstrosity is not an anomaly but the norm – […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Land swaps: the real story
As one who makes a living on federal land exchanges and Land and Water Conservation Fund purchases, I was disappointed in Lynne Bama’s story on land exchanges (HCN, 3/29/99). Two exchanges which came in for heavy criticism in the article were the Huckleberry and Plum Creek exchanges in Washington state. The criticisms stemmed mainly from […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Speaking out for God’s forests
To discuss the state of the nation’s forests last year, the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation met for several days on the California coast in the shadow of giant redwood forests. The campaign leaders emerged with a unified voice, calling for an end to the logging of old-growth forests and an end to commercial logging […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Conservation Voices
Conservation Voices has a new look. This revamped bi-monthly magazine of the Soil and Water Conservation Society most recently profiled a handful of landowners across the nation who’ve successfully restored their land. A six-issue subscription costs $15; contact Soil and Water Conservation Society, 7515 NE Ankeny Road, Ankeny, IA 50021-9764 (515/289-2331). This article appeared in […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Fellowship for Environmental Conflict Resolution on the U.S.-Mexico Border
The Ford Foundation/Udall Center Fellowship for Environmental Conflict Resolution on the U.S.-Mexico Border offers a paid opportunity to research, teach and write for a year on work pertaining to environmental conflict resolution. For more information, contact Robert Merideth at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, 803/811 E. First St., Tucson, […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
www.headwatersnews.org
Log onto the World Wide Web, type www.headwatersnews.org, and discover a single source for updates on environmental and community issues from the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. The free Web site links the reader directly to Web sites of the original news sources, which are most often daily newspapers. It is a […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
High Altitude Revegetation Field Tour
If you join a free High Altitude Revegetation Field Tour in northern New Mexico from July 29-30, you can visit reclaimed mines, explore ancient archaeological sites at the Pecos National Monument, and dine on traditional Santa Fe food. The sponsor is Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Science. For more information, contact Gary […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Fishtrap writers’ conference
At a rustic camp on the shores of Oregon’s Wallowa Lake, writers gather at the annual Fishtrap writers’ conference. This year’s theme is “Borders,” and teachers include historian Susan Armitage, novelist Craig Lesley, and poet Richard Garcia. For details about the June 27-July 2 workshops or July 2-4 gathering, contact Fishtrap, P.O. Box 38, Enterprise, […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Sheep is Life
-Sheep is Life” brings weavers and shepherds together for traditional Navajo food, livestock exhibits and workshops in fiber arts and range management. The June 24-26 event at Diné College in Tsaile, Ariz., is free and open to the public. Contact Diné bÆ’ ÆÆna’, P.O. Box 539, Ganado, AZ 86505 (520/755-3266), www.recursos.org/sheepislife. This article appeared in […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Photography and the Old West
Asa-Ton-Yeh, a Comanche chief, photographed by William S. Soule in 1868, is part of the exhibit Photography and the Old West, a collection of 80 photographs from the second half of the 19th century. The show at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colo., runs through May 31; contact Michael Williams, 970/882-4811, for more information. […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Opening lines of communication
To help keep locals informed about environmental issues on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in California, a lone activist has spun an electronic web. The Eastern Sierra Agenda Network was founded by Elizabeth Tenney, a member of Preserving the Eastern Sierra Tradition of Environmental Responsibility (PESTER for short). This list-serve, a free electronic […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
Less climbing to the top
The Mount Hood National Forest has traditionally been a weekend haven for many Oregonians, but it might not be for long. The three wilderness areas that lie within the forest have eight times as many visitors as they did 10 years ago, and an average of 900 hikers crowd the Mount Hood Wilderness Area during […]
Posted inMay 10, 1999: My beautiful ranchette
A bigger picture
Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument needs to think of itself in the context of a wider world. That’s the conclusion of Crown of the Canyons, an atlas of colored maps and data on the ecology, geology and economy of the monument and its surrounding landscape, compiled by the Wilderness Society. The monument’s 1.9 million acres […]