Plans for power lines and pipelines would make it easier to tap the West’s energy boom
Allison Gerfin
Posted inJuly 24, 2006: Taking Liberties
Watch the river flow
After 18 years of wallowing in court, farmers and conservationists have reached a settlement that allows water to run again in California’s second-longest river. The Friant Dam, built in the 1940s, irrigates 1 million acres of rich agricultural land in the Central Valley. It also has dried up sections of the San Joaquin River for […]
Posted inJune 26, 2006: The Tamarisk Hunter
Saints speak out against nuclear waste
Although Mormons call Utah their promised land, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has rarely taken a stand in defense of its environment. Recently, however, the highest echelon of the church threw a protective arm around the state by opposing a nuclear waste storage site near Salt Lake City. In a three-sentence statement […]
Posted inJune 26, 2006: The Tamarisk Hunter
Energy workers, union members protest drilling
In Wyoming, the outcry against oil and gas drilling is getting louder — and now it’s coming from some unlikely quarters. Since 2005, the Bureau of Land Management has been auctioning off parcels in the Wyoming Range of the Bridger-Teton National Forest for oil and gas development. The most recent lease sale on June 6 […]
Posted inJune 12, 2006: The Perpetual Growth Machine
Mexican wolves face a rocky road to recovery
Mexican gray wolves have nearly disappeared from the Southwest — again. This spring, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inadvertently killed most of the members of a pack of 12 wolves in eastern Arizona. In April, the White Mountain Apache Tribe asked the agency to remove the Hon Dah pack from reservation lands after the […]
Posted inMay 29, 2006: 'Clinging Hopelessly to the Past'
Dear friends
WELCOME, NEW INTERNS Having worked as a bicycle messenger, Wall Street broker, jeweler, car detailer and welder, Allison Gerfin is ready to try her hand at something new: an internship at High Country News. Allison wandered between the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts for a number of years, from New York City to Portland, Ore., […]
Posted inMay 29, 2006: 'Clinging Hopelessly to the Past'
Bomb test stirs up fear in Nevada desert
Proposed blast raises alarm over lingering radioactivity and talk of bombing Iran