How The West Was Ruined
January, 2008
(LESS TO VIEW NATURE AS A SUBLIME FORM THAT IS ONLY BESMIRCHED BY THE PRESENCE OF HUMANSHere in the West there's an ongoing war (with real shots sometimes fired from real guns) between the metropolitan cities and their outlying rural towns. From the perspective of the small town, it's tempting to see every environmental initiative—to halt or restrict logging, mining and ranching on federal lands; to demolish dams on rivers like the Columbia, the Snake and the Colorado;to reintrocluce the buffalo...
