Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, R, is a popular politician and
a likable man, but environmentalists say his support of shooting
wandering Yellowstone bison shows how weak his environmental record
is.
Writers on the Range
Writers on the Range was a project of High Country News from 1998 to 2018. It is now an independent nonprofit organization.
Prof. Debra Donahue defends her controversial book, "The
Western Range Revisited," and its criticism of public-lands
grazing.
A University of Wyoming faculty member says that the furor
over Debra Donahue's book, "The Western Range Revisited," is just
the most recent attack on academic freedom led by Wyoming special
interests.
Locals seem resigned to President Clinton's creation of
the new Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northwest
Arizona.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, not the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribes, is to blame for alleged management
problems at the National Bison Range in Montana.
The incestuous relationship between the oil and gas
industry and the Wyoming government is finally being challenged
through a state Supreme Court decision that ruled against
Exxon.
Wyoming's little-known Red Desert is a unique region rich
in wildlife, history - and also in deposits of oil, gas and
minerals, which could lead to the destruction of the land under
which they're found.
As the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Sonoran
Desert into Arizona rises, the Border Patrol is faced with the need
to protect a fragile environment at the same time that it polices
the border.
Modern-day "robber barons" such as Tom Chapman will
continue to blackmail taxpayers by threatening to develop
wilderness and park inholdings - unless land-management agencies
summon the will to fight back.
The Montana Legislature ratifies a water compact with the
Crow Indian Tribe that favors consumptive users of the water at the
expense of the Bighorn River itself, and of the world-class trout
fishery in Bighorn Lake.
Amateur archaeologists Sharon and David Hatfield have
spent the last six years volunteering at Zion National Park, Utah,
where they keep an eye on archaeological sites and try to prevent -
and restore - vandalized rock art.
In a special April Fool's page, HCN changes its names,
takes on a rather notorious new intern, and covers the breakaway
prairie dog republic and the Talibann in Idaho, and offers readers
a chance to write their own story for the paper.
Jim Nelson, who managed the Humboldt-Toiyabe National
Forest in Nevada for years amid environmentalist acclaim, has had
his career derailed by whistleblowers that the writer believes
acted without justification, in a spirit of personal
malice.
In Utah's rapidly growing Salt Lake City area, local
communities are trying to work together to build the Bonneville
Shoreline Trail before development makes it impossible.
Although their winning essays showed they value forests
for vastly different reasons, the eight winners of Siuslaw National
Forest Supervisor Jim Furnish's contest on "Why I Value the
Siuslaw" enjoyed their three-day tour of the area.
The headlines about the recent arson in Vail, Colo., fail
to consider the resort's history of legal but still reprehensible
activities - especially its expansion into old-growth and possible
lynx habitat.
Former Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy,
looks back on his dam-building days without any apologies or
regrets.
A youthful staff of Zuni Indians has begun a newspaper,
The Shiwi Messenger, to bring accurate homegrown news to New
Mexico's Zuni Pueblo.
At a conference for mining activists 60 people share
stories and strategies for battling hardrock mining and the 1872
Mining Law.
Following the state's electrical deregulation bill,
Montana Power Co. decides to sell its 13 dams, leading to fierce
debate over the fate of rivers, water rights and fish.
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