The wilderness debate is forcing rural Utahns to confront their deepest hopes and fears.


Montana spurns feds to hold spring grizzly hunt

Montana wildlife officials have rebuffed federal pressure to call off a special early grizzly bear hunt. Federal wildlife officials wanted it stopped in order to prevent a possible overkill this year of the threatened species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

A wilderness war: Utah’s canyons cut to the bone

The wilderness debate is forcing rural Utahns to confront their deepest hopes and fears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/23.11/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E

Echoes from a fire at Beaver Creek

Today I sat in a stand of lodgepole pine trees that met death during the Beaver Creek fire in Grand Teton National Park. Their charred trunks bristled the hillside like quills on the back of a porcupine huddled in self-protection. Unlike people, these trees remain standing after their deaths, sentinels in their own graveyard. Download…