EAGLE, Colo. – Wes Schlegel, a lifelong rancher, just couldn’t figure it out: “If my dad and granddad could have heard what was said here tonight, they’d be rolling in their graves.” What he’d heard was praise for wolves, now gone from the Flat Tops Wilderness some 30 miles from here. Schlegel lives about 15 […]
Allen Best
Posted inSeptember 30, 1996: Can this man break the right's grip on Idaho?
Forget widgets, we sell wilderness
Italian ski racer Alberto Tomba signed a megabucks deal last winter with Vail Associates, the company that operates the Vail ski area. Tomba has a reputation best understood in the United States when compared to Michael Jordan and Madonna. Both admired and scorned, he’s never ignored – exactly the person that Vail Associates wanted to […]
Posted inOctober 21, 1991: Sting uncovers eagle-killers
Eco-grazing: Shepherd follows his flock, and the seasons
Sheepman Sam Robinson says sheep have not only failed to harm the mountains near Vail, Colo., where he has grazed them for the last 11 summers, they’ve also done the ecosystem some good. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E