BLM’s most promising tool for fighting cheatgrass backfires in Idaho
Guy Hand
Posted inMay 27, 2002: Wolf at the door
‘There isn’t much room for more wolves’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Ralph Maughan is a professor of political science at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, and president-elect of the Wolf Recovery Foundation. He believes there are still reasons to worry: “There was no need to kill off all of the Whitehawk Pack. That […]
Posted inApril 15, 2002: Raising a stink
‘The odors were beyond description’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Until recently, Sena McKnight lived in the middle of several dairy farms outside Twin Falls, Idaho. Sena McKnight: “We moved here six years ago, and at the time there was not much development. Two years ago, Hank Hafliger’s dairy started up, a mile to […]
Posted inApril 15, 2002: Raising a stink
‘Big for the sake of big is not good’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Bill Stoltzfus owns a small registered Holstein dairy in Buhl, Idaho. He moved to the Magic Valley from Pennsylvania in 1992. Bill Stoltzfus: “(We have) about 85 milk cows. Everybody has a name and they are all individuals. A few of them are actually […]
Posted inApril 15, 2002: Raising a stink
‘You start over new’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Dean Swager moved his dairy farm from Southern California’s Chino Valley to Idaho’s Magic Valley in October of 2000. Dean Swager: “My father started in the dairy business in 1943 in the Bellflower area (in Southern California). He moved several times in that area […]
Posted inJune 23, 1997: On the trail of mining's corporate nomads
Boise pushes on its river, and the river shoves back
The “New West” has settled along the banks of the Boise River. An urge to live and work near rushing water has transformed a braided, meandering waterway, once cloaked in nothing more than cottonwoods and rural attitudes, into an urban amenity flanked by office parks, pubs and a forest of pricey homes. Think of riverfront […]