Politics

Keith Haggard, the founder and executive director of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association, shares his experiences advocating for solar technology. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue

Roderick Nash, whose passion is exploring and preserving wilderness, sees wilderness not as an amenity, but as a powerful aid for overcoming a frontier mentality. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.10/download-entire-issue

Mark Skrotzki is spearheading an effort to find alternatives to a plan to push a four-lane interstate through Colorado’s Glenwood Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.7/download-entire-issue

Ellen Williams, the postmaster general in the town of Dutch John in northeastern Utah, has spent the past several years attempting to preserve and restore the historical remnants of nearby Browns Park, an Old West ranch outpost and outlaw hideout. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.23/download-entire-issue

Don Erickson is a modest, cautious man. These qualities set him apart from most other solar energy equipment manufacturers eager to build a market for a new product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.19/download-entire-issue

Dick Randall, who grew up in Wyoming’s wide open spaces and at one time in his life shot hundreds of coyotes from a plane, is now an outspoken opponent of predator control. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue

Buzz and Mary Anne Youens anticipated a quiet life when they built a cabin in Arizona’s isolated White Mountains in the early 1970s, but a nearby timber sale turned them into activists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue

When HCN cartoonist Rob Pudim isn’t slaying social dragons, he’s often out catching butterflies or helping out with Boulder’s methadone program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.9/download-entire-issue

Priscilla Robinson, the director of the Southwest Environmental Service, says that the key to lobbying is to recognize that the political person is a whole person and to give him a chance. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.8/download-entire-issue

Bob Child, a rancher in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, is trying to promote an experimental program aimed at preserving what’s left of the valley’s cattle grazing industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.7/download-entire-issue

Ann and Myron Sutton are students and teachers of the wilderness, having studied hundreds of wilderness areas in nearly 40 countries and written over 20 books on the wild outdoors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue

Conservation writer Michael Frome is well-qualified to comment on the risks of speaking out — he’s spent much of his career nailing down natural resource scandals and naming the people responsible, and has lost two jobs for his candor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue

People envy John McComb, Southwest Representative of the Sierra Club, because they think he gets paid to hike through the deserts and mountains surrounding Tuscon, Arizona. But he works 70-80 hours per week, believing that dedication and patience are two essential qualities for his profession. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.3/download-entire-issue

Ten years after Juel Rodack and his wife took an awe-inspiring hike into the Grand Canyon, only to emerge and learn of plans for the Marble and Bridge Canyon Dams, the group they formed in response, Arizonans for Water Without Waste, is one of the most influential environmental groups in the Southwest. Download entire issue […]

Charlie Scott, a rancher south of Casper Mountain in Wyoming, challenged himself as a bureaucrat in Washington D.C. for five years, but is pleased to be back in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.12/download-entire-issue

When conservationists get together to talk shop, June Viavant talks canyons. The Escalante Canyon, in particular, has been her obsession since the ’60s. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.11/download-entire-issue

Laney Hicks, the Northern Plains Representative of the Sierra Club, has made good on her goal of getting good press coverage. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.10/download-entire-issue

Ed Dobson wanted to be a baseball player, and later, a sports broadcaster. But a hike to the Grand Canyon clinched his future in the West, and he now runs a traveling show about the ills of strip mining. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.8/download-entire-issue

Peter and Katherine Montague are dedicated to dissolving the reticence that has traditionally characterized Western towns, and have been building an “information bank” in the Southern Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.4/download-entire-issue

Jim Connor, a planner-coordinator for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, softens the blows from environmentalists and industry. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.24/download-entire-issue