Chris Frasier

Dear HCN, The recent issue on wildfires and exotic weeds continues a disappointing trend in your paper, of peddling panaceas rather than creating dialogue. In the opening page, the “usual suspects’ are rounded up – grazing, farming, roads, mines – and from there it reads like a tabloid account of the Jon-Benet Ramsey murder. One […]

Dear HCN, After watching Elbert County, Colo., endure the nation’s second-fastest growth rate for the past few years, I envy “Wyoming’s unique mix of apathy and arrogance,” as described by Paul Krza (HCN, 7/6/98). The correspondent reveals a disregard for the native values of Wyoming citizens, assuming that they’re dull and backwards because they seek […]

Dear HCN, Jonathan Brinckman’s profile of Senate hopeful Walt Minnick is written with the arrogance that all too often portrays people of the land as part of the problem but ignores very real problems created by growth in the West (HCN, 9/30/96). Consider his thesis: Those in Idaho who care about the environment are battling […]