A recent piece by native rights attorneys Lloyd Miller and Heather Kendall-Miller — getting wide play in Native and alternative media — indicts Sarah Palin on Native issues in her home state. Alaskan Native villages are spread across 375 million acres, many of them roadless. Subsistence foods — fish and game — still comprise 60 […]
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Audio: A conversation with Alexandra Fuller
To listen to the audio interview you need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed and Javascript enabled. Alexandra Fuller, whose recent book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant is a portrait of a worker who died in Wyoming’s energy fields, talks about the connection between people and land; about why she left her native […]
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Palin the predator
“The more voters learn about Sarah Palin…the less there is to like,” the female voice intones ominously in a new ad by the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund. The political message goes on to show graphic footage of wolves being gunned down from an airplane, and piles on more evidence of the Alaska governor’s aggressive […]
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Longing for the way it never was
When I was a child and stayed with my grandparents in their house at the top of a cactus-studded hill, I cherry-picked their library, which ran floor to ceiling along the entrance hall. I figured Grandpa was the one who read Zane Grey — half a dozen of Grey’s exotic titles were lined up together […]
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The Roan lease price was high, but not high enough
The auctioning of the Roan Plateau’s nearly 55,000 acres of gas leases netted a record $114 million last week, as the BLM put “the most biodiverse lands in Colorado” up for sale. The highest per-acre price was $11,800, for leases below the rim of the Roan; the average was about $2100 per acre. Unless a […]
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Owl be seeing you, too
Many thanks to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll, for his piece about High Country News titled Owl be seeing you. Carroll praises Kim Todd’s story on the spotted and barred owls — Hostile Takeover, published in our August 4 issue — and waxes eloquent as he recaps the main points of Todd’s feature. He […]
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What the frac’ is in those fluids
In the gas industry’s “frac’ing” process, approximately a million gallons of fluid, under extremely high pressure, is injected underground, and, with explosives, creates fractures in the strata, freeing natural gas from its underground chambers. Manufacturers of frac’ing fluids are allowed to keep their formulas proprietary, but they are required by the Occupational Safety and Health […]
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Roan on the auction block
BLM set to open Colorado plateau to gas drilling despite broad opposition
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War of Fog
Fighting the West Nile Virus and a culture war in a small Colorado town
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Senate Dems call for resignation of EPA’s Johnson
Back in 2005, the Senate withheld its confirmation of Stephen Johnson as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency when he refused to cancel the Children’s Environmental Exposure Research Study, which proposed using human subjects to examine the effects of pesticides on children from infancy to age 3. When he agreed to cancel the study, the […]
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Enviros go to court in a last-ditch effort to save the Roan
Cataloguing the wildlife and habitat on the gas-rich Roan Plateau and listing the history of public input asking that it be saved, a coalition of 10 conservation and wildlife groups filed suit today in Denver District Court to halt the Bureau of Land Management’s August 14 auction of 55,000 acres on the plateau west of […]
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Beloved companion or Parisian dinner?
There are right ways — and there are wrong ways — to dispose of an unwanted horse, according to Brent Glover, who for 33 years has operated Orphan Acres, a 50-acre equine sanctuary in northwestern Idaho. Here are some of the wrong ways, based on recently reported incidents: Don’t tie the horse to a stockyard […]
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Population’s Paul Revere?
NAME Frosty Wooldridge AGE 61 KNOWN FOR His e-mails, blogs, letters and books about overpopulation, and by extension, immigration. HE SAYS “You can ignore reality, but at some point reality will not ignore you. In the U.S., we’re now on track to add 100 million people in the next 30 years. We can bring about […]
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Green and mean
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund builds on anti-Pombo election strategy
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More precious than gold?
Updated May 14, 2008 In the ’80s, activist David Kliegman was worried about logging companies over-cutting the forests on Buckhorn Mountain, the high point of the picturesque Okanogan Highlands in north-central Washington state. Then he learned that a mining company just might “take the mountain right out from under the trees.” That was back in […]
Posted inApril 28, 2008: Pillaging the Past
Nuclear crossroads
Feds gear up for new nukes while cleanup lags
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The Longest Walk 2
On a chilly day in March, two dozen weary walkers are resting at the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose. In the shadow of western Colorado’s Shining Mountains, surrounded by relics of the tribe who once inhabited the area, the group is taking a two-day break on its five-month journey from California’s Alcatraz Island to the […]
Posted inFebruary 18, 2008: Reluctant Boomtown
A Rico renaissance
Post-mining economy threatened by proposed moly mine