If Florida Gov. Jeb Bush were governor of Montana, would the Rocky Mountain Front get highest-level protection from future oil and gas development? You bet it would. This May President Bush announced that he intended to buy back more than $200 million worth of oil and gas leases off the Florida coast and in the […]
Gene Sentz
Posted inApril 23, 2001: The Big Blowup
Bush-Cheney bunch are the new eco-terrorists
Dear HCN, Out of Edward Abbey’s novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, came the term, “eco-terrorist,” defined as an extremist who so radically loved the ecosystems that sustain the earth, that he tried to protect them by “monkeywrenching” the tools of big extractive industry — dozers, dams and draglines — thus destroying the industrial juggernaut that […]
Posted inSeptember 25, 2000: Backyard boom
Roadless in Montana
Dear HCN, Montana’s gallivanting Gov. Marc Racicot recently bellyached in Washington, D.C., about the administration’s roadless initiative. Since his case had just been thrown out of court in Idaho, maybe he was seeking refuge with fellow anti-enviros inside the Beltway. Obviously, he’s not listening to most of his constituents. Most Montanans, like the great majority […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
‘Clear-cuts for kids’
Dear HCN, Karen Mockler’s article, “Counties grab for control of national forests’ (HCN, 12/20/99) alerted me to a pair of bills being debated in Congress. HR 2389, the “County Schools Funding Revitalization Act” already has passed the House of Representatives, and its companion piece with the brotherly name, “Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination […]
Posted inJune 26, 1995: Colorado's prison slayer
Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front: Sell It or Save It?
… And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County, Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay? Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking, Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away. — John Prine The early years of my life were spent in southern West Virginia. Dad […]