Tourist encounters in national parks, thievery and honesty
in Colorado and Nevada, testing Olestra in Grand Junction, Colo.,
fiberglass cow in Park City, Utah, runs into trouble with planning
commission, DIA and tornadoes, etc., and competition for
mines
Heard Around the West
Heard Around the West is a longstanding High Country News column that captures obscure and absurd tidbits and stories from around the region. Email the editor of Heard, Tiffany Midge, with photos and news tips: [email protected].
High Country Shopper, Rocky Mountain News scorns rural
Colorado cows, low wages for Wyoming women, husband wife team of
wilderness rangers needs money in Montana, quips from Myles
Rademan, New York Times' Freemen blooper.
Strange bedfellows in the West: Wal-Mart and Main Street,
sheep and range restoration, javelinas in Washington state,
cartoonist John Callahan runs for Oregon state Legislature, Cheetos
in space, cowboys and California.
Sex at the prom, Abstinence Week, Utah's baby boom,
complaints in a Silver City, N.M., lumberyard about having to take
off your gun at the door, tourists hurry through Utah, linger in
Wyoming, and in South Dakota folks are nice to cows.
Tot finds dinosaur egg, N.M. governor finds jokes about
hwy. dept. ot funny, lights on Hwy. 666 in N.M. save lives,
Washington roads made of old tires burst into flames, Nevada's
"extraterrestrial hwy.," and classic hwy. story from
Montana.
Montana weirdness, Santa Fe Mayor Debbie Jaramillo and
nepotism, Utah bans gay groups in schools, livestock fight back in
Colorado, rattlesnakes in Vail, and Idaho paints over
swastikas.
Praying for cold weather, Jesus and fishing permits, wild
horse contraceptives, reservoirs help earth rotate, Bigfoot on
endangered species list, Northwesterners for more fish use, wrong
fish for logo.
Sen. Hatfield and sausages, hunting in a bra, East bunny
"scramble" in N.M., Oliver Stone opposing buffalo hunting in N.M.,
Carlsbad Caverns a world heritage site, John Talbott fished without
a license but still is on Wyoming payroll.
Lost in the West, including Sacajawea, Bureau of Indian
Affairs money; extra acres of public land appearing; busted for
nude sunbathing in Spokane; computer sculpture courtesy of DIA;
Helen Chenoweth on new species; Columbia Falls finally gets
waterfall.
Poodle-free Montana, militias, peyote bust, the spiritual
center of the universe.
Navajo football broadcast, George Nethercutt not a good
listener, fish visitors comment, Wanaleiya resort in Nevada, Iowa
romance, cold weather in the Dakotas, big and little
DIAs.
Pizza-eating wolf, Crow Nation loses rights to Big Horn
Nat'l Forest, football in Lyman, Wyo., retirement benefits for Alan
Simpson and Pat Schroeder, Linda Hasselstrom overhears conversation
about Jackson and Wyoming, taxi drivers at DIA.
Nevada pigeon poop, an empty Arches National Park,
impersonating game wardens, Ben Campbell upset by female
impersonator, militia forms PAC, Helen Chenoweth on grizzly bear
recovery, hunting escaped cows, DIA's traffic control
woes.
Small town getting too big; four-wheel drive dangers;
economic whimpers from Los Alamos; political wackiness in the NW;
carting salmon around Elk Creek Dam; thrifty farmers; Navajo
language wins wars; snakes in Navajo schools.
Second-rate national parks, "virtual" national parks, not
ruthless feds, Barbara Cubin's woes, Catherine Crabill rails
against greenies, Arizona Gov. Fife Symington willing to shoot
spotted owls, jobs available in Aspen.
Utah Rep. James Hansen's troubles; Yellowstone not crowded
enough?; Republicans' "green" image; Idaho potato festival;
pedestrian conference in Boulder; Italian bees in Wyoming; Indians
protest baseball team names.
Nike ads, MTV in Utah, toll attendants on Navajo lands,
French tourists in Utah, DIA woes, cows in suburbia, freon in
Arizona.
Was Jim Peacock kidnapped?, Wandering moose, California
exodus slows, Montana log cabin for sale with militia included, is
"Rock feature" archaeology or rocks?, Natural Bridges gets
phones.
Annoying boldface type; Patricia McColm's lawsuits; real
estate ruckuses; driving is faster than flying DIA; preserving
WPPSS; Belarussians in Utah Wal-Mart; lobster kidnapping; canola
oil exhaust and bears; life is less fun.
Cows poisoned; antler poaching; brucellosis logo in
Yellowstone; overheated black-footed ferrets die; beef fudge
recipe; prison near Norwood, Colo., school; salvage logging
protest; "drive-through' Ph.D.; Harry Merlo's successor; recreation
bulldozing.
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