Magazine
![Fallout Fallout](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/@@images/6c5e85d0-0b51-4ffe-b57a-19ff97a53336.jpeg)
November 10, 2014
Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community in Oregon, a look at why the current drilling boom is more sensitive to price fluctuations than its predecessors, California's sweeping new groundwater regulations, a desert-friendly cow and more.
Feature
![Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/timberland-herbicide-spraying-sickens-a-community/@@images/2169270d-542e-453f-964a-38ae8642340b.jpeg)
Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests.
Current
![USGS launches a billion-dollar initiative to map the West in 3D USGS launches a billion-dollar initiative to map the West in 3D](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/usgs-launches-a-billion-dollar-initiative-to-map-the-west-in-3d/@@images/2fabb106-7272-4fcb-ba29-6b9f4bd9d267.jpeg)
LIDAR is about to become more widespread -- helping agriculture, pilots and homeowners.
![Will falling oil prices kill the shale revolution? Will falling oil prices kill the shale revolution?](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/will-falling-oil-prices-kill-the-shale-revolution/@@images/7245abdd-663e-43fa-a981-4b93af20a69d.jpeg)
The current drilling boom is more sensitive to price fluctuations than its predecessors.
![California’s sweeping new groundwater regulations California’s sweeping new groundwater regulations](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/californias-sweeping-new-groundwater-regulations/@@images/0d42c336-d126-46e3-9048-ef5d38ab4408.jpeg)
Will the law finally mean better aquifer management for the drought-stricken state?
![A young mule stringer helps keep a dying profession alive A young mule stringer helps keep a dying profession alive](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/a-young-mule-stringer-helps-keep-a-dying-profession-alive/@@images/2ce141ab-a8ab-4ea4-9da1-a87fc0c73d50.jpeg)
Mules are still needed to carry supplies in wild, roadless mountains.
![The desert-friendly cow The desert-friendly cow](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/the-desert-friendly-cow/@@images/228ef4b2-2c12-4602-ba71-3ac02f03410e.jpeg)
A rancher and a researcher search for a better bovine — and think they’ve found one.
![Rocky Mountain sawmills rebound Rocky Mountain sawmills rebound](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/rocky-mountain-sawmills-rebound/@@images/420c4b5e-ea49-4902-8ad8-3d1d1ba09061.jpeg)
But the industry says it needs more timber.
![Latest: Montana judge rules groups of wells illegal Latest: Montana judge rules groups of wells illegal](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/latest-montana-judge-rules-groups-of-wells-illegal/@@images/faf30f36-8bf9-410b-8b8f-e8f9b5865d3c.jpeg)
“Exempt well” laws in most Western states allow domestic wells to be drilled without water rights.
Editor's Note
Essays
![‘Poverty with a view,’ in the rearview ‘Poverty with a view,’ in the rearview](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/poverty-with-a-view-in-the-rearview/@@images/0eea1f9c-a4bd-4ae9-89f0-15e774391c4c.jpeg)
I spent my 20s in some of the most beautiful towns in the West.
Writers on the Range
![Dear Forest Service: Today’s John Muir shoots video Dear Forest Service: Today’s John Muir shoots video](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/dear-forest-service-todays-john-muir-shoots-video/@@images/249a0441-aeab-47ba-8b91-dededf4c05ae.jpeg)
Let people take all the images they want in wilderness areas.
Dear Friends
![New HCN board members, Part II New HCN board members, Part II](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/new-hcn-board-members-part-ii/@@images/9223533d-ad87-410a-ae69-e483f4d149ee.jpeg)
Welcome three new members, and farewell to naturalist Ann Zwinger.
Book Reviews
![Review of "The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West" Review of "The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West"](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/review-of-the-memory-of-stone-meditations-on-the-canyons-of-the-west/@@images/18341216-0efd-46ba-9be9-2c9168505ba4.jpeg)
Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.
![Hope and futility on the Great Plains Hope and futility on the Great Plains](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/hope-and-futility-on-the-great-plains/@@images/39dcdc9c-ffb3-42cd-aa5d-b8c33ad515f4.jpeg)
Review of ‘Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land’ by Dan O’Brien.
![Speaking art to power Speaking art to power](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/speaking-art-to-power/@@images/fed4c8e0-eca9-4fd4-89a8-47bf145e2952.jpeg)
Review of ‘Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and And Art in the Changing West’ by Lucy R. Lippard
Heard Around the West
![Sage grouse found walking through Wyoming underpass Sage grouse found walking through Wyoming underpass](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/sage-grouse-found-walking-through-wyoming-underpass/@@images/4402cdc0-90ff-4294-b4f6-c3abe16cfd4a.jpeg)
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Multimedia
![Photographs of the Gold Beach community Photographs of the Gold Beach community](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141206045634im_/https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.19/affected-by-herbicide/@@images/ed32055e-264b-4b02-bb17-e1e50921dfc7.jpeg)
The people affected by this timberland herbicide cocktail.
Letters
- Rusty Austin on Rants from the Hill: Desert Insomnia
- Susannah Abbey on Touring Hopi via a 10K running race at dawn
- Jonathan Thompson on Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis
- Carolyn Hales on Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis
- Carolyn Hales on Light rail enters the West’s most sprawling metropolis