Dear HCN, Steve Pyne’s fine article on Ed Pulaski, and the Forest Service’s corporate culture about forest fires, is a great read (HCN, 4/23/01: The Big Blowup). But Steve, like so many others, fails to see the main point about humans vs. fires. Fires happen. It’s not our fault. The idea that finding “a Pulaski” […]
Philip M. Hocker
Posted inJuly 25, 1994: 'Unranchers' reach for West's state lands
Doubts about Kennecott in Utah
Dear HCN, Thanks for highlighting the long-term, extremely costly damage that hardrock mining has caused to America’s West in “Can Mining Come Clean?” (HCN, 5/30/94). David Mullon, the Mineral Policy Center’s Southwest Circuit Rider at that time, worked together with the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District to oppose Utah’s sweetheart settlement with Kennecott of […]