Thought-provoking piece of fiction (nonfiction?) (HCN, 6/26/06: The Tamarisk Hunter). Good writing and imagery. The city of Grand Junction is very involved in the “coalition” of Colorado water users funding the efforts of Jim Lochhead in negotiations between the Upper and Lower Basin states. Your scenarios are not far from the mark and touch on some […]
Greg Trainor
Posted inFebruary 16, 2004: Courting Disaster
What does Mormonism have to do with it
The issue of environmental consciousness cannot be framed around the issue of whether you are or are not LDS (HCN, 12/22/03: Being Green in the Land of the Saints). It’s certainly an interesting slant for the article, but whether your religion is LDS is no more an indication of your environmental slant than is race, […]
Posted inApril 9, 2001: The water empress of Vegas
The border’s gut-wrenching water problems
Dear HCN, Megan Lardner’s story, “Divided waters” (HCN, 3/12/01: Divided waters), provoked a strong, visceral response in me. She certainly has the ability to observe and to describe what she sees. What she saw stirred my gut. To have a metropolitan border area of over 2 million persons, some of whom have to depend on […]