Your recent article, “Who Will Take Over The Ranch,” turned out to be a big disappointment (HCN, 3/29/04: Who will take over the ranch?). The term “conservation easement” borders on being an oxymoron. In the entire article I failed to find anything that actually indicated such an easement had anything to do with conservation. Livestock […]
Steve Gallizioli
Posted inApril 14, 2003: Change comes slowly to Escalante county
Ranchers are behind predator control
Dear HCN, Tom McNamee’s predator-prey article is one of the finest pieces on the subject of predators and predator control I have ever read (HCN, 3/31/03: Tinkering with nature). Typically writers who tackle this highly controversial issue are biased either for or against predators. Such articles seldom shed light on the issue, but do generate […]
Posted inJune 4, 2001: Tribal links
Cooperation and other shibboleths
Dear HCN, I don’t know how many times I’ve read or heard that the solution to the differences between environmentalists and ranchers is “cooperation.” Lovely word, cooperation. Unfortunately, it seems to mean different things to different people. To the rancher, it’s “leave us alone to do our thing.” To most environmentalists, it means reducing the […]