HOTCHKISS, Colo. – Allen Todd has been in the timber business on Colorado’s Western Slope for about a quarter of a century, and his small but tidy custom sawmill outside the town of Hotchkiss reflects his years of experience. Looking like oversized games of Jenga, neat towers of square timbers, which will soon reinforce shafts […]
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Posted inOctober 25, 1999: Monumental chaos
The Wayward West
Conservationists in north-central Washington worked hard and fast to raise over $13.1 million to keep chain saws out of the 25,000 acre Loomis Forest (HCN, 5/24/99). Now, the state’s Board of Natural Resources says they’re millions of dollars short. After wrestling over the value of the forest’s timber for more than a year, the board […]
Posted inOctober 25, 1999: Monumental chaos
Powerful Images at the Heard Museum
The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz., known for its extensive collection of Native American art, opens its 70th season in an expanded facility, an $18.1 million, 50,000 square-foot addition that doubles its size. Three major exhibits are slated for the new space this year: Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America, opening Nov. 13, explores the […]
Posted inOctober 11, 1999: A home-grown Water War
Resort may crowd Mount Rainier
Ashford, Wash., a rural town of about 1,500 people that is only a stone’s toss from the western gate of Mount Rainier National Park, may soon have a big, new neighbor. Earlier this month, Pierce County endorsed plans for a $70 million, 400-acre resort that would more than double the number of housing units in […]
Posted inSeptember 27, 1999: The Millworker and the Forest
Glen Canyon unplugged
Michael Collier, a river-runner, geologist, pilot and photographer who sometimes masquerades as a physician, has been using his “bushy sort of airplane” to take river pictures from the air since 1975. Slides from Collier’s recent book Water, Earth and Sky: the Colorado River Basin, co-authored with Dave Wegner of the Glen Canyon Institute, will be […]