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This summer, with blazes erupting once again across the West--from Arizona to Montana, Idaho, the Pacific Northwest and Canada--the concerns long raised by Covington and others are fueling an intense debate. Should the U.S. Forest Service, in the name of protecting communities and restoring ecological balance, authorize tree thinning on a massive scale? If it does, what size trees ought to be thinned and in what sorts of forests? And if it does not, what are the alternatives...
DIED. JAMES WELCH, 62, Montana-born author of novels and poetry about Native American life; of a heart attack after a battle with lung cancer; in Missoula, Mont. A member of the Black Feet tribe, he grew up on a reservation and was encouraged to write poetry by a high school English teacher. The first of his seven novels, Winter in the Blood, tells the story of a young Indian, and was praised by novelist Reynolds Price as a "nearly flawless novel about human life...
...time to go." AMY VANDERBILT, spokeswoman at Glacier National Park in Montana, where wildfires threatened the edge of the park and prompted the evacuation of thousands of campers...
Lewis, after packing up his Montana rocks and taking the buffalo skull off his wall, will be gone from his University Hall office for good...
While Lowry’s literature is used in classrooms around the world, however, her work has not been immune to controversy. The Giver, imbued with political and religious implications, has also been deemed an invocation of Satan and has been banned in schools in California, Montana and Ohio. Lowry, when asked about the controversy surrounding this book, laughs and says, “I think there’s a website called ‘Lois Lowry is the antichrist.com’—I find it quite interesting...