line Reference Ta t lRT -8E4-V2 Election results hom lOr states and the Navajo Nation start on page 6 A Paper for People whQ Careabout (he West One Dollar -U/////////////h'////////./////// Ij . < o The two-patty system is back n immensely popular Republi- Republican incumbents' loyalty to that' But the Democrats have their norships will be very important in can president campaigns hard policy, almost certainly led to .their counter-arguments. They were 1990, when congressional seats are A in the'West, and yet loses race replacement by Democrats. outspent by the Republicans in Senate reapportioned, and so the effects of afrer race for the U.S. Senate. Clear In Colorado, Reagan's position on races $93 million to $62 million. this election will be felt in 1990. proof, some argue, that Congressman the Strategic Defense Initiative. (Star Averaged over 34 races, that's $1 The numbers, as always, can prove Tip O'Neill, Jr. is correcr when he Wars) was echoed and then amplified million-a race. (In addition, Republi- anything; the' gut impressions speak says, "All politics is local." by Republican Ken Kramer. So can national committees raised $179 more clearly. Utah's conservative U.S. extreme was Kramer's trillion dollar million to the Democrats' $35 million.) Sen. Orrin Hatch, who gives up a There is another interpretation. position on Star Wars that he gave Moreover, the Democrats showed Senate chairmanship, told the Deseret Politics is local in the sense that voters Democrat Tim Wirth miles of running grass-roots strength. Nationally, they News: "It's the end of the Reagan who would have re-elected Reagan room. Wirth, in deference to the picked up six legislative chambers, revolution. I can't believe it." with another landslide ·felt no state's heavy economic stake in and now control, both chambers in 29 In the mountain 'states, until the obligation to give him the senators of defense spending, could support states. Western legislatures remain night of Nov. 4, it seemed that Reagan his choice. They voted as Nevadans, research and development while still solidly Republican, although Demo- and his conservative tide were North Dakotans and Oregonians; not staying to the left of Kramer. Wirth crats gained the lower house in invincible. The election created a new as participants in a national plebiscite. also hammered away at what he said Nevada 'and perhaps the Senate in landscape. Democrats didn't sweep Nevertheless, the senatorial elec- was the administration's anti-en- North Dakota. the West, but they showed that, when tions were determined by national vironmental policies, of which Kramer On. the other hand, Republicans free to campaign on their own merits, forces in several Western states. The was an enthusiastic supporter. won the lower House in Montana and they could win. They won a Reagan administration's policies on President Reagan's supporters the Senate in Nevada. Both had been congressional sea-t in Utah, won nuclear waste helped defeat Republi- point out that he lost the Senare in the evenly split. The Montana Senate will another ·one in Colorado' s Weste~ can candidates in two nuclear dump West by a handful of votes.' If only be evenly '.split, with a Democratic Slope against a congressman who had waste states: Washington and Nev- 36,000 voters in five ·Western states lieutenant governor giving his party tied himself tightly to Reagan, kept ada. The latter election, in which (Colorado, Nevada, Washington and control of committees. The New one congressional seat and the gover- Harry Reid beat] im Santini, may have the Dakotas) had switched votes, the Mexico Senate will be evenly split, . norship in super-conservative Idaho, also .dashed the longshot political Republicans would have controlled the with the New Mexico House and· generally gained ground in '. I hopes of Nevada Senator and Reagan Senate 50-50. If another 5,000 had Democratic. heavily Republican state legislatures intimate Paul Laxalt. switched in Alabama, they would have The Republicans remain solidly or such';" Utah's. In normally Republican North and had the Senate without the tie-break- overwhelmingly in control of the state- South Dakota, the administration's ing help of vice president George house in Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and policy on farm prices, and the two Bush, Wyoming. Statehouses and gover- (Continued on page 7) Line R t.r.nQ Tlrget L This issue was to be HCN s return to normal: 16 pages, no color, a photo centerspread and a nice balance between Roundups, Hotlines, and one or two lengthier features. But events are in the saddle, and while we heroically staved off color and extra pages, balance and centerspread are gone. The general election, like the one in 1980, will determine the West's course for the next several years; as a result, much of this issue is devoted' to it. In place of a photo centerspread, News for the most there is a two-page belated Thank-You Descriminating tastes. to 1986 Research Fund donors. The idea for the illustration by David Wilson came from Stephen Martinek of Palo Verde, California. He wrote on his Research Fund card: "Thanks for making the West a community." His EXTRA EXTRAS sentence summed up what HCN tries NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES to do: Cover the rural West as if the ZCMI Mall • State Street Entrance • 322-1925 region were a small town. Rather than displace the names of of his American Indians, Time and the the Galapagos Islands. The couple donors (we still have many to,thank), Law -- Native Societies in a Modern stopped by Paonia Sunday, October we have reprinted the Research Fund Constitutional Democracy, published 19, to say they were no longer on the card on this page. If you have not yet by Yale University Press. Watching island. Instead, they are touring the contributed, we hope you will do so. Wilkinson ponder each inscription at Rockies, looking for a niche. Jerry had By contributing now, you can do good length made us understand' why his worked ,at .the . Charles Darwin even as you do well. Experts say a work is consideredso highly. ' Research Station under contract with donation to a tax-deductible organiza- The former NARF attorney told the the international division of the Nature tion in 1986' will be worth a larger 100 or so guests that if, for example, Conservancy. Jeannie originally came deduction from personal taxes than in Colorado University were to fold, its to the paper when, she took a HIGH COUNTRY NEWS (ISSNIOI91/5657) 1987. (In our 1987 RF drive, we shal students, faculty and mission would is published biweekly, except for one issue geography course at Berkeley titled during) uly and one issue during J anuaey, by downplay the importance of the find new homes elsewhere. But The West, taught then by Prof. Jim the High Country News Foundation, 124 Grand change.) NARF, he said, is unique: the only Parsons and now by Dave Larson and Av'enue, Paonia, Colorado 81428. Second-class HCN has been getting some press organization devoted to defending postage paid at Paonia, Colorado. ,Paul Starrs. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to lately. The Whole Earth Review listed Indian rights in the courts. NARF is Finally, the Nature Conservancy's HIGH COUNTRY NEWS, Box 1090, Paonia, the paper, calling it "intelligent and located at 1506 Broadway, Boulder, Tom Wolf has a new home. He has CO 81428. unique.,;" John McPhee's Rising CO 80302. moved hi'S office and self to Jackson, Tom Bell from the Plains, first published in The HCN still has subscribers in all 50 Wyoming. Editor Emeritus New Yorker, is out as a book. Its states, but it has lost its most remote ./ Ed Marston subject is Wyoming geologist David readers: Jerry and Jeannie Emory of " ~ Pubhiher Love; \HCN is mentioned as a cause .- " ;. oJ ........ ,." ,,;'~~. .;>'". o ....> ...- ... - ~~. 'i Betsy Marston Love supports, Editor HeN is being used as an attraction Judy Moffan in an ad campaign to draw people to BUILETIN BOARD Development Extra Extras -- a store in the ZCMI A COLORADO WILDERNESS EIS Marjane Ambler Mall in downtown Salt Lake City. The A MISSOURI RIVER SYMPOSIUM Bruce Farling The Colorado BLM is preparing an The Missouri River: The Resources Glenn Oakley ad, reproduced on this page, is being environmental impact statement for and Their Uses and Values will be the Geoffrey O'Gar:a run in a magazine in Salt Lake City. seven wilderness study areas in the White topic of a symposium Dec. 9" 1986, in c.t. Rawlins The strategy of the ad, we guess, is River, Kremmling and Little Snake Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored by the Pat Ford that a store that 'carries something resource areas in northwest Colorado. A.merican Fisheries Society and the U.S. eonln"bllling Editors The Bureau of Land Management will called HIgh Country News must carry Fish and Wildlife Service. To be held in Jen Brunner consider wilderness values, timber, conjunction with the 48th Midwest Fish Graphicsl Accounting everything. wildlife, minerals· and ranching opera- and Wil"hle Conference, the gathering Mary Moran tions when writing the EIS, and the public' will look at -the Missouri River' from a Research Associate Circulation manager C.B. Elliott is is invited to participare; Public meetings historical perspective to show present always qn the lookout for trends. She, have been held; but for more information changes , their effects and to develop a Steve Hinchman and to send 'written comments write Greg Kate Mclvor tells us that we have recently lost two philosophical approach to th~ river. Goodenow, Project Manager, BLM Craig In/ems There will also be reviews of subscriptions to love I or at least to District Office, 4)) Emerson Sr., Craig, state-of-the-art fisheries and river biolo- C.B.