Jun 22
Who Survives? USFS or NPS I’d like to combine two of the recent posts in this space by Chris Carlson and offer up a provocative wager to our readers. To set the stage: Chris opined, and I agree, that we’d likely see a push to overturn the Winters Doctrine pertaining to Native American water rights …
Jun 21
Mark Trahant on the lousy economy… Writing recently at the NewWest website, author and Fort Hall, Idaho resident Mark Trahant says the United States is halfway into a “lost decade” of economic growth. Trahant says: “The late, great author Wallace Stegner wrote about the idea of a West populated by federal employees in Salt Lake …
Jun 15
It’s All About Water, Stupid! With apologies to James Carville, the political consultant who came up with Bill Clinton’s campaign mantra – “it’s the economy, stupid,” the future in the American west is all about water, its allocation, its cost and its rapid depletion. Scientists, naturalists, writers, farmers and ranchers, politicians are all too aware …