New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force has often
been accused of being a front for the livestock industry.
Communities
After decades of back-and-forth with federal authorities, the matrilineal descendants of Chief Seattle want federal recognition, once and for all.
Alisha Murphy discusses her vision of a robust tribal economy and the importance of community input.
Colorado’s most destructive fire leaves behind grief and slow recoveries.
Description of what the West's extension agents
do.
In a changing West, the land-grant universities'
cooperative extension programs must rethink their
mission.
Oakley, Utah adopts a development code with a "right to
farm provision" in an attempt to preserve its rural way of
life.
A road trip across Wyoming moves the writer to muse about
the glories of living in an "unedited" version of the
West.
A report, "Managing Change in Rural Communities," is
reviewed.
The new resort town of Mountain Village, Colo., employs
questionable legal tactics to allow non-resident property owners to
vote while seasonal workers cannot.
If the Adam's Rib ski resort is built, western Colorado's
already displaced workers will have to commute even farther to find
a place to live.
Oregon resident Jack Lee Harelson is found guilty of
looting an Indian burial cave in Nevada, and pothunter Earl Shumway
is sentenced in Utah to six-and-one-half years.
Catron County, N.M.'s land ordinances survive an
environmental lawsuit, but fail to be enforced on the
ground.
New Mexico State's Range Improvement Task Force issues a
press release saying the Diamond Bar allotment is not overgrazed,
and environmentalists and scientist critics cry
"pseudoscience."
The writer describes how his New Yorker father fell in
love with, and eventually moved to, Santa Fe.
In his own words, an anonymous retired East Coast
businessman explains his disillusionment with the West and his
decision not to buy property there.
Santa Fe's hotel and tourism industry blames populist
Mayor Debbie Jaramillo for the slowing of the city's upscale
boom.
Economist Tom Powers' report, "Economic Well-being and
Environmental Protection in the Pacific Northwest," says the region
is thriving despite dire predictions.
Volunteers help protect the West's threatened
archaeological sites from vandals and looters.
The Annenberg Rural Challenge seeks to reform rural
schools.
A radio documentary "Writing the Southwest" features 13
Southwestern authors.
Environmental journalists are invited to apply for a
fellowship year at Harvard.
Residents of New Mexico's North Valley object to the
felling of old cottonwoods to make way for a bridge over the Rio
Grande designed to ease Albuquerque commuter traffic.
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