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Can an Entire Town Move Back from the Sea? by Ruxandra Guidi PRISON STRIKES | CONSPIRACY AND CHAOS | NAVAJO POLICE ACADEMY High Country ForN people whoews care about the West Nature Retreat Can an entire town move back from the sea? October 15, 2018 | $5 | Vol. 50 No. 17 | www.hcn.org 17 50 No. | $5 Vol. 2018 15, October By Ruxandra Guidi CONTENTS Editor’s note On covering the myriad Wests In this issue of the magazine, we honor the life and work of Ed Marston, the longtime publisher of High Country News, who died in August from complications of West Nile virus. Needless to say, this has been a reflective few weeks for all of us. Ed, who retired from the magazine in 2002, had a powerful vision for the rural West, one that included both conservation and compromise, especially over the shared natural resources of the public lands. Over the years, HCN has remained true to that vision — in part. But the magazine has also pushed into other facets of the West to tell its ongoing story. We, the editors and writers, have deliberately brought more voices into the conversation, especially from communities typically excluded from it. (Not everyone agrees with this approach, and this issue includes a letter from a reader who will no longer subscribe to HCN.) The truth is, the West is more than ranchers and High seas in March 2014 reached the iconic surfer statue at the end of Palm Avenue loggers and miners. It is more than recreationists in Imperial Beach, California. SErgE DEDINA and environmentalists — whatever that word FEATURE means. It is a complicated, contradictory place, where militiamen prowl the southern borders and a grieving orca carries the corpse of her dead calf for 12 Nature Retreat 17 days. It is a rapidly urbanizing region of widening On the cover Can an entire town move back from the sea? By Ruxandra Guidi inequality, where real estate deals sever the poor from the natural world, even as red-tailed hawks Imperial Beach, 15 A Tribute to Ed Marston A special section California, framed by circle the sky over elk, bear and the occasional a wave. The sea level is hunter. The West produced people like Ursula K. expected to flood the CURRENTS Le Guin, a writer whose ecological warnings were area consistently by woven into fantasy, science fiction and poetry. But 2050. it also produced the white supremacists indicted JC MONGE 5 Prisoners turn to strikes Inmates renew protests against recently for their part in Charlottesville’s violent solitary confinement and racially biased sentencing “Unite the Right” protests last year. 5 The Latest: Wildfire smoke-related deaths Meanwhile, the entire West is in jeopardy. 6 Conspiracy theories and vigilante justice Amid political and cultural tumult, the climate is changing, bringing a new reality we are unprepared 8 A revival for the Navajo Nation’s police force Despite underfunding, for. This issue’s feature story, by Contributing a new academy is training cadets to protect the Nation on its own terms Editor Ruxandra Guidi, describes a coastal town in 8 The Latest: Migratory Bird Treaty Act lawsuit Southern California that is asking whether it can, or should, retreat inland from the rising seas. The DEPARTMENTS residents of Imperial Beach are not grappling with hypothetical abstraction; the tides are rising, the shores eroding. Also in this issue is an analysis of 3 FROM OUR WEBSITE: HCN.ORG Trump administration rollbacks of policies meant to 4 LETTERS slow greenhouse gas emissions, and a story on the Complete access Navajo Nation’s attempts to rebuild a police force to subscriber-only 9 THE HCN COMMUNITY Photo contest, Research Fund, Dear Friends content that honors tribal sovereignty. 25 MARKETPLACE These stories should be read together, HCN’s website holistically, bound by the idea that the ecological hcn.org 28 BOOKS crises are inseparable from the problem of human Digital edition West: A Novel by Carys Davies. Reviewed by Jamison Pfeifer domination — of the land and of each other. Ed hcne.ws/digi-5017 29 ESSAY Marston was right: The West deserves a vibrant rural Can hunting keep us human? By Paula Young Lee landscape. But it deserves much more than that. We Follow us are honored to build, from Ed’s legacy, the vision of 30 PERSPECTIVE a thriving, inclusive American West, one equal to the Trump is burning the natural gas bridge By Jonathan Thompson challenges of our time. @highcountrynews 32 HEARD AROUND THE WEST By Betsy Marston —Brian Calvert, editor-in-chief 2 High Country News October 15, 2018 From oUr WebSite: HCN.orG the boarding school era’s missing indigenous children During the boarding school era of back to the Wind River Reservation in the 19th and 20th centuries, an Wyoming. The remains of two others, unknown number of Indigenous 14-year-old Horse and 15-year-old students at Carlisle Industrial Indian Little Chief, Soldier Wolf’s great uncle, School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, had been returned the previous disappeared. Now, a coalition of August. Several Indigenous children Indigenous organizations — including went missing from the Carlisle Indian the National Congress of American Industrial School, which opened in Indians, which represents 250 1879 and closed its doors 100 years Indigenous nations, the International ago. It was the United States’ most Indian Treaty Council, the Native notorious Indian boarding school and American Rights Fund and the the starting point for more than a National Native American Board- century of child-removal policies that ing School Healing Coalition — has continue to tear apart Indigenous turned to the United Nations to families today. Carlisle, and hun- demand answers regarding what hap- dreds of federally funded boarding pened to loved ones, “whose fate and schools like it, were key to the U.S. whereabouts remain unknown.” The government’s project of destroying tribes’ efforts are beginning to bring Indigenous nations and indoctrinat- about some closure. In June, after ing children with military discipline about a decade of back-and-forth and U.S. patriotism. with the U.S. Army, which owns the Note: This article was produced in Carlisle property, Yufna Soldier Wolf collaboration with The Intercept. stood present as Little Plume, the last NICK ESTES AND ALLEEN BROWN Carlisle Industrial Indian School student body is pictured in 1892. Students were relocated of three Northern Arapaho children Read more online: from nearly every Indigenous nation within U.S. borders. JOHN N. CHOatE/CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL DIGITAL buried there, was exhumed and sent hcne.ws/boardingschools-missing RESOURCE CENTER National parks are warming twice as fast as the U.S. overall 8 out of 10 Americans who live in suburbs, up from about According to new research released this month, half and half in 1920. scientists concluded that national park sites warmed at twice the rate of the United States overall between 1895 and 2010. Temperatures rose by about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit per century out of in the parks, compared to less than 1 degree 2 3 trillion across the nation. The scientists attribute the Proportion of miles people travel by car in urban and suburban areas versus rural areas, lopsided trend to the fact that a large amount of although rural areas have three times as National Park Service land is at high elevations many miles. or in the Arctic, where human-caused warming is accelerated. Indeed, the highest temperature hikes were in Alaska. Gates of the Arctic and Denali Percent of land in the U.S. national parks, for example, both saw spikes of 3 occupied by cities about 7 degrees Fahrenheit per century. The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, was Percent of the nation’s the first comprehensive look at shifts in climate 90$16.8 trillion gross domestic product at all 417 sites managed by the National Park produced by metropolitan areas. Service. It also projects how the climate might further transform parks by the end of this century. According to a recent article by Christopher EMILY BENSON Read more online: Boone for The Conversation, in the West and hcne.ws/warming-warning across the country, more people now live in suburban developments as cities decline. Census figures from earlier this year show that the suburbs of warm climate “Sun Belt” Judge to USFWS: cities in the West continue to grow, while Don’t ‘cherry- “The right distrusts any cities in the cold climate “Snow Belt” of pick’ science deal involving the federal the Midwest and Northeast have declined. In September, U.S. Smaller metropolitan areas with fewer than District Judge William government, and the left 500,000 people have also grown, related Alsup ordered the the to an improving economy and job creation U.S. Fish and Wildlife holds a lot of distrust in smaller urban centers. This ongoing Service to reconsider shift toward the suburbs has significant its decision not to about the state being able environmental repercussions, writes Boone, federally protect Pacific a professor of sustainability at Arizona fishers, rare animals Pacific fishers may get listed. BETHANY WEEKS/ to confront scarcity over State University: “Rising suburbanization long threatened by USFWS PacIFIC SOUTHWEST REGION undermines some of the energy efficiency widespread logging in their home range. Alsup ruled that the agency climate change.” gained by high density living in urban cores.” “cherry-picked” scientific evidence to downplay evidence of poisonings, —Chuck Coughlin, longtime Arizona GOP But, he concludes, the trend toward suburban while also ignoring signs that poisonings are increasing. Alsup questioned consultant, discussing why the appointment life could soon come to an end. Millennials — why the agency — which says that not enough evidence exists to know of Jon Kyl, a former water attorney and former the generation born between 1981 and 1997 whether poisoning by illegal marijuana-growing operations threatens congressman, to the deceased Sen.
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