Navajo spoken here When Albert Hale was in grade school, a teacher reprimanded him for speaking Navajo, saying, “You guys lost the war. You are now in an English-speaking country, so you speak the language,” Hale told the Salt Lake Tribune. Hale, now president of the Navajo Nation, wants to make sure a cultural blackout […]
Heather Abel
Posted inOctober 30, 1995: Nevada's ugly tug-of war
Sleepy St. George wakes up to hate crimes
Dave Hamilton and Claude Schneider were asleep on Sept. 23 when Utah’s St. George Fire Department called to say their bookstore was on fire. Somebody had doused the building with gasoline and lit a match, say St. George police. “This was a hate crime,” says Schneider. “Hamilton and I are gay, and there is no […]
Posted inOctober 30, 1995: Nevada's ugly tug-of war
Deals and delays for Dixie
After a five-year Forest Service study found that cattle have eaten 94 percent of their allotted grass on the east slope of Boulder Mountain in southern Utah, Dixie National Forest ranger Marvin Turner made a decision. On June 1, Turner told cattlemen to reduce their grazing levels by 42 percent. Ranchers cried foul, and three […]
Posted inOctober 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
Dam project could get a free ride
A Colorado senator wants to make sure the controversial and long-delayed Animas-La Plata water project begins next year. Republican Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell hopes to attach a rider to an appropriations bill that requires Congress to proceed with dam construction “notwithstanding any other provisions of the law.” The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, which has […]
Posted inOctober 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
From sawing logs to serving cappuccino?
One hundred and forty-two years ago, a timber company built a sawmill and the town to operate it, Port Gamble, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, Wash. This October, the nation’s oldest continually operating sawmill is closing. The company, Pope & Talbot, that built the mill and now leases it from Pope Resources Co., says […]
Posted inOctober 16, 1995: In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one
Public lands for needy ski resorts
In Summit County, Colo., where housing prices force ski area service workers into trailer parks and long commutes (HCN, 4/17/95), a national forest supervisor has proposed a solution. He is Sonny LaSalle, who says the Forest Service could offer some of its public land to ski areas or other local businesses to build low-cost rental […]