Bad times in Congress point up the lack of unity in the
environmental movement which is split between foundation and
grassroots strategy.
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.
During elk rutting season, the little town of Mammoth Hot
Springs inside Yellowstone National Park becomes a wild "cauldron
of lust."
Memories of the horrors of corporate water pollution
before environmental regulation prompt the author to warn Congress
against weakening the law.
If Bonneville Power Administration can't afford to save
salmon, it should be gotten rid of entirely.
A liberal and a conservative come together to offer a
grazing reform package that they claim will work.
"Climatic serendipity" is more likely to restore riparian
areas than human tinkering and the use of scare tactics.
A Native American journalist offers a fierce critique of
Walt Disney's "Pocahontas."
The catalog-consumerism of trendy "Native American" items
exploits both Indians and the non-Indians who want to dress and
decorate for the part.
The writer seeks to change the sometimes-competitive
relation between Easterners and Westerners into a true working
partnership to save all American wildlands.
Talk of the West's "dream towns" should focus less on
moving to one than on staying and creating a home where we already
live.
The destruction of the Big Wild in Idaho's Greater
Salmon-Selway ecosystem by logging moves the author to rage and
grief.
The second annual meeting of the Sierra Nevada Alliance
attracts activists including David Brower and Andrea
Lawrence.
A wilderness ranger describes the less-aesthetic parts of
her job as she cleans up after campers.
Former intern Auden Schendler recalls life at "Intern
Acres" in Paonia.
Ousted Louisiana-Pacific chairman Harry Merlo leaves a
legacy of pollution, fraud and betrayal.
Altamont is the rural West in microcosm, writer
says.
Former HCN interns share memories and offer updates on
their lives since the paper.
Shea Andersen describes the life of an HCN
intern.
HCN editor Betsy Marston reminisces about the early days
of the paper after it moved from Lander, Wyo., to Paonia,
Colo.
The writer considers how hard it is to love the earth or
anything else in the abstract, as opposed to the particular and
familiar, and reminisces about getting to know a horse when he was
a child.
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