Presettlement forests provide map for management
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Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
Reformation in the Vatican of sawlog forestry
History takes Oregon State for a ride
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
The ax falls at the University of Washington
Environmental institute is chopped; other programs cut
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
Silencing science at UW: one researcher’s story
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, The ax falls at the University of Washington, in a special issue about the West’s forestry schools. When the University of Washington offered aquatic biologist Steve Ralph a job in 1989 directing a major new stream-research program, he jumped at the chance. His […]
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
A new breed of academic at Colorado State
Note: this story is one of several feature articles in a special issue about the West’s forestry schools. Fort Collins, Colo.- At 6:38 a.m., Rick Knight is happily installed in his campus office, propelling himself about at high velocity on a chair with well-greased rollers. He drums out memos on his computer, organizes slides for […]
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
The end of certainty
Western universities learn there is more to forestry than chainsaws
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
Environmental paradigm spurs collaborative research
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, The end of certainty, in a special issue about the West’s forestry schools. For many years, the federal government spent more money studying the breeding and production of corn than it did studying forests. Yale Forestry Professor John Gordon speculates this was related to […]
Posted inNovember 13, 1995: Seeing the forest and the trees
Two views of forest health at the University of Idaho
Are the forests sick or well?
Posted inOctober 30, 1995: Nevada's ugly tug-of war
Sleepy St. George wakes up to hate crimes
Dave Hamilton and Claude Schneider were asleep on Sept. 23 when Utah’s St. George Fire Department called to say their bookstore was on fire. Somebody had doused the building with gasoline and lit a match, say St. George police. “This was a hate crime,” says Schneider. “Hamilton and I are gay, and there is no […]
Posted inOctober 30, 1995: Nevada's ugly tug-of war
That waving wheat is nothing but a clearcut
Virtually all of agriculture is an attempt to artificially prolong the first stage of succession. The grasses we have domesticated … grow quickly and concentrate energy on producing seed. They store carbohydrates in these seeds, precisely why we value them as food. From an ecological sense, then, agriculture is a sustained catastrophe. It is the […]
Posted inOctober 30, 1995: Nevada's ugly tug-of war
‘All of us feel we don’t have …’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Nevada’s ugly tug-of war. “All of us feel we don’t have the impact, the ability to make changes we had 20 years ago.” – Bonnie Whalen Bonnie Whalen is a computer supervisor who grew up on a ranch north of town and has worked […]
Posted inOctober 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
Looking for a quiet, old neighborhood?
If a proposal by Utah’s Trust Lands Administration goes through, state-owned lots containing Native American ruins will go on the block to provide money for public schools. One lot includes an Anasazi house structure probably dating to the time of Christ; another contains a Fremont culture dwelling dating back 1,000 years. State officials say they […]
Posted inOctober 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
From sawing logs to serving cappuccino?
One hundred and forty-two years ago, a timber company built a sawmill and the town to operate it, Port Gamble, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, Wash. This October, the nation’s oldest continually operating sawmill is closing. The company, Pope & Talbot, that built the mill and now leases it from Pope Resources Co., says […]
Posted inOctober 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
Public lands for needy ski resorts
In Summit County, Colo., where housing prices force ski area service workers into trailer parks and long commutes (HCN, 4/17/95), a national forest supervisor has proposed a solution. He is Sonny LaSalle, who says the Forest Service could offer some of its public land to ski areas or other local businesses to build low-cost rental […]
Posted inOctober 2, 1995: Did Idaho libel the feds?
Inventing the Southwest
INVENTING THE SOUTHWEST Few people realize that a restaurant and hotel chain played a key role in marketing Indian art as early as the 1880s. An exhibit to run through April 1997, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz., explores how the Fred Harvey Company influenced the art of the Southwest’s Indians and shaped tourism […]
Posted inOctober 2, 1995: Did Idaho libel the feds?
Rocks, invective, and generosity
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Did Idaho libel the feds? SALMON, Idaho – Until a wolf was shot on Gene Hussey’s ranch south of Salmon in January, he was just “Hussey,” a prankster with a sharp tongue who lived without a phone. Since the wolf’s killing and Hussey’s confrontation […]
Posted inOctober 2, 1995: Did Idaho libel the feds?
Inside the glitter
In the past, photographers wanting to document Nevada’s workers headed for the mines, forests, ranches and irrigated farmlands. But no more, according to photojournalist Kit Miller. Today’s workforce can be found in the state’s casinos. Miller, a Nevada native, says she took on the project of interviewing and photographing this new Nevada workforce to confront […]
Posted inSeptember 18, 1995: The West's fisheries spin out of control
DIA hears from some critics
Because of a late plane coming from Denver International Airport, a standing-room-only crowd of 150 waited nearly two hours at an air summit meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., for DIA officials to show. Once over the Rockies, DIA reps heard a list of woes from regional airport managers: sky-high fares, unreliable service and bumped ticket-holders […]
Posted inSeptember 18, 1995: The West's fisheries spin out of control
Another judge says no
It reads as predictably as a Harlequin romance: Rejected by the judiciary, the University of Arizona has rushed into the arms of its political allies. On July 31, for the third time in a year, a federal court shut down the university’s plan to build its $60 million Large Binocular Telescope outside an area on […]
Posted inSeptember 18, 1995: The West's fisheries spin out of control
Inside the glitter
INSIDE THE GLITTER Carmen Rios: My mother had 16 kids, 12 of us are still living, and she worked outside the house too! So we’re used to working. Carmen Rios, 21, is a bus girl and occasional hostess in Reno, Nev., where she often puts in double shifts. You can learn about her life, and […]