Your story on the proposed wind farm in Idaho provides an excellent case study on the environmental challenges of replacing much of our nation’s energy infrastructure with renewables (“The fight over a windswept landscape,” December 2021). While renewables are great at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, they are not immune from numerous […]
Neil Snyder
Posted inJune 1, 2021: Once and Future Fires
Changes
In the publisher’s note in the May issue, you state that you “cover the West’s thorniest issues and gravitate without hesitation toward difficult conversations.” I’d like to suggest that this was true in the past, but it’s not always true today. You’ve made it clear that some of the major changes you’ve made over the past […]
Posted inSeptember 9, 2008: Reclaiming the low country
Crying Fowl
After reading “Conservation Quandary,” your feature on owls, I flipped to the cover page to see if I was reading the April Fools’ edition (HCN, 8/18/08). When I realized this wasn’t a joke, my first reaction was anger that we are wasting tax money to save spotted owls from other owls. After re-reading the article, […]
Posted inDecember 26, 2005: A New Green Revolution
Putting God in the equation
Your recent essay by Pepper Trail expresses great concern over the current evolution debate (HCN, 10/3/05: What’s at stake in the evolution debate). I agree that this is an extremely important issue, but for exactly opposite reasons. Trail lumps intelligent design theory together with creationism, which is misleading. Creationism is based on a literal interpretation […]
Posted inMay 24, 2004: In Search of Solidarity
This isn’t your daddy’s Democratic party
Your recent article on “Imagining a Democratic West” was a refreshing attempt to really examine the political realities of the West, rather than just engaging in the usual Republican-bashing (HCN, 4/12/04: The One-Party West). As one of the many conservative Westerners who really does care about our environment, I’d like to see some changes that […]