You describe the West, with all its (“The West is more than heroes and villains,” HCN, 11/11/19). I could barely get through the inside cover of This Land; it’s a fiction of romantic idealism disconnected from the realities of our region, and the complex and pragmatic work to “save” it. Chase GunnellBallard, Washington, via Twitter This […]
Chase Gunnell
Posted inAugust 7, 2017: Los Promotores
No empathy
In the story “Death Threats” (HCN, 7/24/17), Jessica Lefevre, an attorney for the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, says, “The NGOs we deal with are ideologically driven; this is what they do, they save stuff. The collateral damage to communities doesn’t factor into their thinking.” The same could be said for dozens of hard-line animal rights […]