I just received my Feb. 4 issue of HCN and was surprised to see that the “environmental bi-weekly for people who care about the West” had morphed into Rolling Stone. With Donald Trump in the White House dismantling environmental regulations, assaulting the Endangered Species Act, filling top spots with corporate polluters and environmental destroyers, attacking […]
Brian Peck
Posted inDecember 7, 1998: Vail and the road to a recreational empire
In Idaho: A grizzly consensus plan didn’t exist
Dear HCN, Kudos on HCN’s most recent issue covering the “Grizzly War” (HCN, 11/9/98). The piece by Todd Wilkinson is both timely and dead on target. I must say, however, that I was rather amazed to read under “Idaho grizzly plan shifts into low gear,” that “Environmentalists are silent on grizzly reintroduction.” Environmentalists, both in […]
Posted inFebruary 16, 1998: Private rights vs. public lands
Don’t blame Audubon for a judge’s bad decision
Dear HCN, Letter writer Laurence Jewett of Massachusetts generally took National Audubon Society to the woodshed as the cause of the recent court ruling mandating wolf removal from Yellowstone and central Idaho (HCN, 1/19/98). Only one problem: Audubon didn’t cause the order, the Farm Bureau Federation did. It appears that Mr. Jewett, and a number […]