SUMMER VISITORS
We’re
always a bit surprised (and pleased) that so many of you manage to
find us, since Paonia, Colo. — HCN’s
hometown — is really not on the way to anywhere.
Rick and Susie Graetz from Helena, Mont., came
by with two young friends from nearby Crested Butte. The couple
founded Montana Magazine in 1970, the same year
that Tom Bell started High Country News. They
now run a nonprofit publishing house, Northern Rockies Publishing,
and have co-authored several books on Montana, including
This is Montana, a geographic history of the
state that’s used as a high school textbook. The Graetzes
also write a syndicated weekly column with the same title.
John Rosenberg of Vancouver, Wash.,
dropped in to renew his subscription while vacationing on Grand
Mesa. Tom and Joelle Perlic came in on their way
to visit old friends in the area. Tom is the former executive
director of the Western Colorado Congress, a grassroots
environmental group. The couple now lives in Dayton, Ohio.
Longtime subscribers Steve Odendahl
and Ruth McCorrison stopped by en route from the
Crested Butte area to their home in Boulder, Colo. Steve said
he’ll start work on a natural resources law degree at the
University of Colorado this fall: “I always said that if Bush got
re-elected, I’d go to law school.”
Anne
and Blaise Rastello, who teach high school in Tucson,
Ariz., and spend summers in Durango, Colo., stopped in to renew
their subscriptions. And subscribers Helen Lopez
of Taos, N.M., and James Burke of Spokane,
Wash., came by to say hello.
Chris and Joanne
Sours, from Boise, Idaho, stopped in on their way to drop
off their daughter for an Outward Bound course. Another pair of
Idaho subscribers, Becky and Tim Zurachenko of
Cascade, dropped by for a visit. From Lawrence, Kans.,
Joanne Bergman and Bob Yoos
swung by while traveling from Ouray to Aspen. Joanne is on the
board of the Friends of the Kaw, a grassroots river protection
group.
JUST SEEING IF YOU WERE PAYING
ATTENTION
Mariann Cook Andrews ofTumwater, Wash., wrote to say that cyanide leach mining has been
around since before the mid-1990s, contrary to what we said in our
story on the Great Salt Lake (HCN, 8/8/05: The Great Salt Lake’s
dirty little secret). ” ‘Heap leach’ strip mining was
being used at the Zortman-Landusky mine in eastern Montana in the
early ’80s. Pegasus, a Canadian company, scavenged gold by
showering huge piles of rock with a cyanide mixture. They shipped
the profits to Canada and left the citizens of Montana with
horribly contaminated land and water.”
Noah
Brenner, editor of the Pinedale
Roundup in Wyoming, wrote to say that the Jonah natural
gas field near Pinedale contains about $50 billion worth of gas,
not $5 billion, as an editor mistakenly reported in our story about
EnCana’s proposal to drill there (HCN, 8/8/05: Industry walks
a fuzzy line between preservation and extortion).
Several
readers pointed out that Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, not
the Pacific, as we’d stated in our review of Gardens
of New Spain (HCN, 6/27/05: A tasty history of the
Southwest).
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