Hats off to Neil LaRubbio and HCN for the quality article on federal land exchanges, which beamed some welcome sunlight into dark corners (“Big Timber games for better ground in Idaho,” HCN, 9/3/12). There is fierce and widespread opposition to the fatally flawed proposed Northern Idaho Lochsa Land Exchange. Friends of the Clearwater, Alliance for […]
Scott Phillips
Posted inApril 4, 2005: Calling It Quits
Bush, Cheney, and the Three Stooges
The non-factual letter by Undersecretary of Interior Rebecca Watson was typical BushCO arrogance (HCN, 2/21/05: HCN has it wrong on Bush). The HCN rebuttal was excellent. Here are five concrete examples of the Bush assault on public lands: This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Bush, Cheney, and the […]
Posted inMarch 15, 2004: The New Water Czars
Abolish user fees
Recreationists hate fees for all the right reasons (HCN, 1/19/04: A moment of truth for user fees). Fees will inexorably lead down the slippery slope to privatization and commercialization of our public lands. Fees are undemocratic, exclusionary, a regressive double tax and flat-out wrong. The Forest Service fee program takes in approximately $37 million a […]