I find the Uncommon Westerners column frustrating at times because it seems like filler with no real rhyme or reason. For instance, the latest personality, Guiseppena Bellandi, certainly had a story as to how she came west, but her life seems like a blip on the radar screen, with no real impact on how she […]
Grant Wiegert
Posted inJune 9, 2008: Why the West needs Mythic Cowboys
Sticks and stones
I just want to assure Ron Gillett that even though I’m an enviro, I wasn’t born under a rock, nor am I a “wolf-thug terrorist” or “full of ‘crap’ and ‘baloney’ ” when it comes to wolves having little impact on elk and deer populations (HCN, 5/12/08). Certainly, if wolf populations explode and there aren’t […]
Posted inNovember 28, 2005: Gold from the Gas Fields
Legalizing pot is the solution
The war on drugs will only be solved if we legalize marijuana (HCN, 10/31/05: The public lands’ big cash crop). Sadly, and hypocritically, the agencies that are supposed to be solving the drug problem look the other way when push comes to shove. They make token arrests while leaving the cartels intact to rake in […]