A recent feature lauds the powers of the president to protect lands by declaring them national monuments (“Monument Man,” HCN, 5/25/15). Meanwhile, in a companion article discussing grazing and oil drilling, the author finds “little has changed on the ground” since Canyon of the Ancients National Monument received its designation. A second sidebar describes a […]
Brian Gatlin
Posted inOctober 13, 2008: Back to the future
Unnatural selection
In his letter, Neil Snyder asserts that “it’s time stop intervening on behalf of the spotted owl and let nature take its course, whatever that will be” (HCN, 9/15 & 29/08). If we had allowed nature to take its course, old-growth forests would still blanket the Pacific Northwest. Spotted owls would occupy their traditional niche, […]