Laura Cannon, Arizona State University
The interdependencies that now exist between consuming and producing societies create the following question for those of us living in a consuming culture: How are we to behave ethically in a global age in which the summation of our personal actions can result in the gravest of consequences in places remote in time or space from ourselves?…
Samsara Chapman, University of Montana
The fall 2000 hunting season in Montana started out poorly. On the first day two unfortunate events occurred: a llama, mistaken for a mule deer, was shot by a young hunter (Anon.); and a bull elk was killed, while the young man only had a cow license (Clawson). Then, on November 19, a hunter shot and killed his brother while tracking a wounded el…
Samsara Chapman, University of Montana
One of the most decisive land use issues in the western United States is the designation and use of wilderness. Wilderness designation implies a non-human, non-utilitarian value in the designated lands. Opposition to wilderness designation originates at least in part in a utilitarian paradigm, but utilitarian language and legal lang…