Rocket-fuel ingredient could pose widespread health threats
Lin Alder
Posted inAugust 19, 2002: The Great Western Apocalypse
Can the tide turn for Walker Lake?
Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, “Walla Walla Basin sidesteps a water war.” SCHURZ, Nev. – Robert Quintero, the chairman of the Walker River Paiute Tribal Council, apprehensively surveys the sun-baked view of his tribe’s 360,000-acre reservation near the Nevada-California […]
Posted inApril 1, 2002: Move over! Will snowmobile tourism relax its grip on a gateway town?
Drought pinches Colorado River reservoirs
California’s ‘surplus’ water not in jeopardy, yet
Posted inNovember 5, 2001: Wyoming's powder keg
Utah’s Grand Staircase turns 5
Locals still wondering if the monument will provide an economic step up
Posted inAugust 27, 2001: Restoring the range of light
Utah town goes ‘U.N. free’
Controversial law highlights growing culture clash in Utah’s land of Dixie
Posted inApril 9, 2001: The water empress of Vegas
End of a dam saga
For the past two years, Jim Trees, the founder of the Grand Canyon Trust, has endured criticism over his plan to reconstruct an historic dam in a wilderness study area inside Zion National Park. Now the green leader and organic apple farmer from southwest Utah has come up with an “environmentally friendly” solution that should […]
Posted inSeptember 25, 2000: Backyard boom
A park rediscovers a surprising asset
Springdale, Utah – Though some still question the wisdom of spending $11.8 million on 350 shuttle buses for Zion National Park (HCN, 4/10/00), practically everyone agrees that they allow an unexpected experience to emerge from the surreal canyons of Utah. Quiet strikes tourists when they step off a propane-powered bus at any of the seven […]
Posted inJanuary 31, 2000: Searching for pasture
Arizona gets a new monument
ST. GEORGE, Utah – President Clinton stood on the chilly, wind-whipped South Rim of the Grand Canyon in mid-January and announced the creation of the million-acre Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northwest Arizona. The next day, southwest Utah’s daily newspaper duly reported the announcement, but it shared front-page space with another story – one that […]
Posted inOctober 25, 1999: Monumental chaos
Home Free
With the number of new land trusts topping 1,200 in this country, it’s not surprising that even the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States has come on board. Its Wildlife Land Trust has protected 46,391 acres in 18 states, including recent additions of 500 acres in northern California and 1,280 acres in southwest […]