The greatest moments in American conservation history
often involved the same presidential audacity - and provoked the
same outrage - as President Clinton's establishment of the Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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.
The writer suggests that Westerners learn to live with
fires rather than suppressing them.
People who love the Grand Canyon need to fight to protect
the quiet of the park from noisy air-tour flights.
The land swap that will stop a gold mine right outside
Yellowstone National Park is a perfect example of how grassroots
protest can work.
A successful one-month voluntary climbing ban, designed to
respect Native American religious practices at Wyoming's Devils
Tower, provokes a lawsuit from the Mountain States Legal
Foundation.
The religious and political differences between Navajo and
Hopi Indians who share the same land are highlighted when Navajo
police arrest Hopis for gathering eagles for religious
purposes.
The firing of Colorado River Water Conservation District
secretary-engineer Rolly Fischer after 28 years marks the end of a
profligate era.
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.
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.
Program director Michael Scott of the Greater Yellowstone
Coalition, in his own words, explains the flaws of the grizzly
restoration plan.
The seventh annual American Forest Congress brought
together forest users - and consensus building began to
happen.
Sierra Club chairman Michael McCloskey raises doubts about
consensus groups - and explores the harm they may cause.
Industry claims that the Grand Canyon's haze problem is
naturally caused rile artists and photographers and others who
really know how to look at landscapes.
A former range con reconsiders the conflict of interest
that arises when rangers who want to be cowboys are put in charge
of public-lands grazing.
High Country News offers High Country Snooze as an April
Fool's look at the paper.
The writer takes an ironic look at the Thunderbolt timber
sale in Idaho, and at Boise Cascade's conviction that only logging
can save the endangered chinook salmon.
The Media and Democracy Conference in San Francisco showed
alternative media as too mired in the "60s and in political
correctness to thoughtfully address realities of the
"90s.
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