As a longtime supporter of High Country News, I was very disappointed that you chose to publish the biased and unsubstantiated “Lost in the Woods” by Claudine LoMonaco (HCN, 9/1/14). LoMonaco uses clever buzzwords — “slick slide show and earnest manner,” “bright blue eyes,” “dysfunctional and ineffective,” “historical vendettas, personal grudges and political connections,” just to quote […]
Dick Mangan
Posted inFebruary 6, 2012: Can evolution help snowshoe hares adapt to climate change?
A needed hard line
In his article about the reconstruction of Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, Nathan Rice categorizes Wilderness Watch as “a small, hard-line Montana group” (HCN, 1/23/12, “The law, the lookout and the logging town”). That’s like calling the Sierra Club “a California environmental group.” Wilderness Watch was founded in Missoula, Mont., and is […]
Posted inOctober 2, 2006: From the ground up
Fight fire with fire
When Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., verbally attacked a Forest Service Hotshot crew in the Billings airport in July (“You did a piss-poor job. … didn’t do a goddamn thing but sit around and get paid $10,000.”), the Hotshots did the only thing federal employees can do: Instead of responding to Burns, they called back to […]