The writer ponders the kinds of communities new prisons
create, and offers suggestions to ease the impacts.
Communities
Long COVID affects more than 16 million Americans, and firefighters are at increased risk of getting it.
In Alaska, a fall moose hunt is a collective effort.
The ancient relationship between the otherworldly fish and Northwest tribes is also the future of freshwater conservation.
The writer muses about monster homes compared with log
cabins.
The writer offers a loving tribute to the lonely roads of
the Great Basin.
Richard Knight releases a video titled "Saving the West:
Protecting Open Space."
A proposed new rural-remote zoning law in Colorado's
Pitkin County, designed to prevent the growth of "monster homes,"
faces fierce opposition from some local landowners such as Betty
LaMont.
A time line illustrates the history of Mount Graham and
its squirrels, Apaches, astronomers and
environmentalists.
Mount Graham has spawned such extremism that middle ground
is almost impossible to find.
The saga of Mount Graham demonstrates that the University
of Arizona's shortcuts, questionable tactics and attempts to get
around the law are ultimately responsible for creating an
impossible situation.
Former University of Arizona professor and one-time BLM
head Frank Gregg believes the Mount Graham controversy shows a flaw
at the heart of all universities when it comes to research and
money.
University of Arizona Ph.D. candidate in ecology and
evolutionary biology Mark Fishbein explains his objections to the
Mount Graham project.
Biologist Peter Warshall is the University of Arizona
faculty's most outspoken critic of the project.
University of Arizona professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology Conrad Istock believes an observatory may help
save Mount Graham.
San Carlos Apache activist Ola Cassadore Davis talks about
Mount Graham's sacredness and the coalition she founded to fight
for it.
University of Arizona vice president for research and
graduate studies Michael Cusanovich defends the university's Mount
Graham project.
The University of Arizona's determination to build a
world-class observatory on Mount Graham creates a storm of
controversy involving an endangered red squirrel and an Indian
tribe's desire to protect the mountain as a sacred place.
Delta County resident Lettie Hellman is a proponent of
prisons for economic growth and other reasons.
The prisons in Colorado's Fremont County have brought more
benefits than problems, many claim.
Prisons are a major growth industry in the rural
West.
Most new prisons are being built in economically troubled
rural areas.
Small businessman Tom Huerkamp fights the building of
prisons in the rural West and looks for other ways to generate an
economy.
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