It’s big money vs. big money in Colorado development battle
Hal Clifford
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Land of the fee
Recreation fees promised a jackpot for money-starved federal agencies. So far, they’re a drop in the bucket, and they lock some people out.
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
‘Fee demo is not the full answer’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Jeff Bailey has been the Inyo National Forest supervisor since May 1998: “Congress needs to realize we need more dollars out here. Fee demo is not the full answer. It’s one of the very small tools, and it’s a very small component of what […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
‘You can’t sell a sunset’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Scott Silver is the founder of Wild Wilderness, an anti-fee organization based in Bend,Ore.: “The Forest Service is looking at industrial strength recreation as their new business and us as their customers. More and more, the Forest Service is putting itself in between (the […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
‘I think recreation should be subsidized’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Gary Guenther, a former Inyo Wilderness ranger and volunteer with Missoula-based Wilderness Watch: “I think the pressure should be on Congress. The agency is between a rock and a hard place on this issue. I think it’s interesting when the environmental community and the […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
‘We want the public lands to be in the backyard of the little guy’
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Chris Wood is senior policy advisor to Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck: “I’ve been on a fee demonstration area on a national forest and absolutely befuddled by how I was supposed to get a permit to use an area on a Saturday. I literally […]
Posted inFebruary 14, 2000: Land of the fee
Fee fighters refuse to pay
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. Sun Valley, Idaho, resident Diana Fassino returned from a hike last July 31 to find a ticket on the window of her car. She’d been walking in Adams Gulch on the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, an area popular with equestrians and mountain bikers, and […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
John Fetcher
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Saving the ranch. John Fetcher started his working life as an engineer in Philadelphia before buying a ranch with his brother in the Elk River Valley in 1949. In the 1950s he and three partners began developing the Steamboat Ski Area, which they sold […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Rancher’s new cash crop will be scenery
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Saving the ranch. Private conservation efforts in places such as the Elk River Valley may be able to preserve the look of the land. But if ranchers become tenants on property owned by wealthy people from somewhere else, what happens to the culture? “There’s […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Conservation group ropes in a working ranch
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Saving the ranch. For years The Nature Conservancy has taken a direct route in its quest to protect native plants and animals: buying land and prohibiting most human activities on it. That strategy has paid big dividends in the West. In the 10 Western […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Trust in the Land
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Saving the ranch. In the scramble to preserve Western open space, land trusts have taken the lead. “I see a lot of people looking at land trusts as a real bridge between environmentalists and landowners,” says Jean Hocker, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Land […]
Posted inNovember 27, 1995: Saving the ranch
Saving the ranch
Can private conservation stave off ski-town sprawl?
Posted inJune 26, 1995: Colorado's prison slayer
Ski resort flops in midst of land boom
Once considered a done deal, a planned ski resort near Steamboat Springs, Colo., suffered a major setback in early June when the principal investor pulled out. Houston-based spokesman Jack Crumpler said the decision by Mitchell Energy to “no longer participate in the funding and active development” of Lake Catamount doesn’t kill the resort. But it […]