I’ve threatened to turn Vinnie Barbarino, my horse, into mustang burgers. After a long day struggling with the stubborn creature, my stomped-upon toes swelling in my boots, I have promised to ship him off to France to be served with a side of pommes frites and a nice red wine. Of course, I would never […]
Shara Rutberg
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Do you want fries with that mustang?
I’ve threatened to turn Vinnie Barbarino, my horse, into mustang burgers. After a long day struggling with the stubborn creature, my stomped-upon toes swelling in my boots, I have promised to ship him off to France to be served with a side of pommes frites and a nice red wine. Of course, I would never […]
Posted inAugust 13, 2001: No refuge in the Klamath Basin
Boaters float for their rights
Colorado paddlers confront property owners over river access
Posted inJanuary 19, 1998: After the gold rush
Protester starts her sentence
On Jan. 5, a former teacher began serving a 30-day sentence for refusing to part from a 400-year-old Engelmann spruce she was trying to protect from loggers. Joni Clark’s sentence of 30 days is the stiffest penalty yet for a tree-sitter in Colorado. She was found guilty of violating the Forest Service’s Special Closure Order […]
Posted inDecember 8, 1997: Mono Lake: Victory over Los Angeles turns into local controversy
Amax returns with a vengeance
Twenty years ago it was a classic David vs. Goliath battle. Helped by a drop in the worldwide molybdenum market, residents of the ski-resort town of Crested Butte, Colo., chased the world’s largest mining conglomerate out of their valley. But now, Amax is back, locals are crying “blackmail!” and the town council is building a […]
Posted inMarch 17, 1997: Working the Watershed
Paying 1 percent for place
In the ski town of Crested Butte, Colo., purchases of everything from a rack of lamb to rock-climbing hardware will now go toward buying a piece of paradise. Thanks to the efforts of a local sporting goods store, businesses this month began offering a 1 percent surcharge on all purchases for the acquisition of open […]
Posted inOctober 17, 1994: As elections near, green hopes wilt
Witness
-Each species is a masterpiece,” says biologist and writer E.O. Wilson in his introduction to Witness: Endangered Species of North America, a large-format book of 200 stunning black-and-white and color portraits. Photographers Susan Middleton and David Littschwager collaborated with the California Academy of Sciences and Chronicle Books to produce this collection, to try to focus […]
Posted inOctober 17, 1994: As elections near, green hopes wilt
Bambi takes a hunter safety course
Hey kids, remember when Bambi’s mother got blown away by the hunter? Tom Storm does, and because movies like Bambi have given hunters a bad name, he wants to teach people who don’t hunt all about the role hunters play caring for wildlife. In his book Stormy and The New West, Storm shows Stormy the […]
Posted inOctober 3, 1994: Subdividing the desert: Should there be a vote?
Bigots in Big Sky
-Montana is and always will be WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY,” reads a recruitment pamphlet distributed by white supremacist groups in rural areas of the state. More than 20 such hate groups, targeting African Americans, Jews, homosexuals and Native Americans, blight the landscape in Big Sky country, according to a 57-page report by the Montana Advisory Committee […]
Posted inSeptember 19, 1994: Flame and blame in the Northwest
Lawsuits may prey on wolf plans
Bringing wolves back to the West could hit a snag as both ranchers and environmentalists say they will sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Wilderness Society, Idaho Conservation League, Sierra Club and four other environmental groups notified Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt Sept. 7 that they will sue the agency within 60 days unless […]