Don Tryon

I am shocked when I read letters like Linda Knowlton’s, supporting recreation user fees. The greatest period of public-land recreation-related infrastructure development in the United States occurred during and just after the Great Depression, when the nation was at its poorest. Now that we have experienced huge growth in the GDP and in the number […]

Dear HCN, I enjoy High Country News, but am continually dismayed by your promotion of consensus. Wallace Stegner once characterized the American West as “stretches of picturesque poverty.” It is the most salient fact about the West. And the fact most missing when visionaries talk about what the West should be. The idea that public […]