Catron County, N.M., the home of the county independence
movement, is a study of contrasts - its people heavily dependent on
the federal government and its land and rivers dying.
Communities
En Arizona, los residentes de casas rodantes son más propensos a morir de calor excesivo.
Arizona’s mobile-home residents are far more likely to die from excessive heat.
Like thousands of others in California, Gurpreet Singh builds a life in the West while reporting to ICE, awaiting immigration proceedings and longing for a sense of home.
The number and variety of outdoor education programs has
increased dramatically in the last 25 years.
Writer and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams lauds the
lessons she learned from the Teton Science School.
Writer and Wyoming native C.L. Rawlins considers the good
and bad inherent in trying to provide an outdoor
education.
A former professional outdoor educator traces his slow
disillusionment with wilderness programs that live off the urban
high-tech society and teach nothing about truly living simply on
the land.
The writer describes a tough and educational time spent
working in the inner city with the San Francisco League of Urban
Gardeners.
Utah native Steve Cartisano, the controversial "godfather"
of wilderness therapy, has left a trail of lawsuits behind him,
including one for negligent homicide in the death of a Florida
teenage girl.
Controversial "wilderness therapy programs" such as Utah's
North Star, intended for troubled kids, come under critical
scrutiny - and lawsuits - after several teenagers die while in
their care.
The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and Outward
Bound are the biggest outdoor education schools in the
West.
A Northwest conservation and outdoor recreation group, The
Mountaineers, educates children by sending actors such as Loren
Foss into schools, who teach by assuming character roles such as
"Old John."
The Student Conservation Association has been sending
thousands of young volunteers to help maintain national parks since
1957.
River guide, author and activist Roderick Nash describes a
method of outdoor education he calls "unguiding" - letting the
river teach its own lessons.
A program called Volunteer-led Investigations of
Neighborhood Ecology (VINE) introduces urban children to nature, as
demonstrated by Denver's Garden Place Academy.
A state-by-state directory describes some of the many
outdoor education programs in the West.
The Colorado Legislature passes a bill allowing the state
Corrections Department to ignore local zoning when it wants to
build or expand prisons.
Former U.S. Senator Dan Evans, who once supported
Washington state's Growth Management Act, now seeks to change the
law after finding it will prevent him from building a house where
he wants.
Two Chelan County commissioners defy Washington state's
Growth Management Act, claiming freedom from state and federal
controls.
The West should quit looking for heroes to rescue it -
especially heroes like Major John Wesley Powell, who, the author
believes, did the region more harm than good.
President Clinton signs a bill approving the University of
Arizona's construction of a third telescope on Mount
Graham.
A letter to the late Ed Abbey ruefully notes how the
writer's grim predictions about overpopulation and over-abuse of
the canyon country are coming true.
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