High Country News Yearly Index: 1997

• December 22, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 24)
• Gold Rush: Mining seeks to tighten its grip on the "last, best place'
• Activists "shepherd' wayward bison


• December 8, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 23)
• Mono Lake: Victory over Los Angeles turns into local controversy
• Amax returns with a vengeance


• November 24, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 22)
• Restoring a refuge: Cows depart, but can antelope recover?
• Patience runs out in San Luis


• November 10, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 21)
• Drain Lake Powell? Democracy and science finally come West
• Y2Y: A vast concept gets a hearing


• October 27, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 20)
• Deconstructing the age of dams
• Snowmobiles remain an issue


• October 13, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 19)
• The land is still public, but it's no longer free
• Paying to play in the Sawtooths


• September 29, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 18)
• The timber wars evolve into a divisive attempt at peace
• 'Greens' bulldoze a conservation effort


• September 15, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 17)
• Yellowstone at 125: The park as a sovereign state
• Wet summer a bust for firefighters


• September 1, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 16)
• Radioactive waste from Hanford is seeping toward the Columbia
• BLM gives trespassing farmers a break


• August 18, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 15)
• The West that was, and the West that can be
• Navajo tribe embarks on a long-term cleanup


• August 4, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 14)
• Habitat Conservation Plans: Who wins and who loses when Uncle Sam cuts deals with landowners to protect endangered species?
• Forest plan powers through Congress


• July 7, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 13)
• While the New West booms, Wyoming mines, drills ... and languishes
• In Oregon, tension over coho and trees


• June 23, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 12)
• On the trail of mining's corporate nomads
• Proposed ski resort does a face plant


• June 9, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 11)
• Chaos comes to Costilla County
• The system cuts a new chief down to size


• May 26, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 10)
• The sacred and profane collide in the West
• Some fear the Colorado is getting nuked


• May 12, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 9)
• Planning under the gun: Cleaning up Lake Tahoe proves to be a dirty business
• The West braces for the big melt


• April 28, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 8)
• Christian Evangelicals preach a green gospel
• Montana train accident derailed a small town


• April 14, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 7)
• Beauty and the Beast: The president's new monument forces southern Utah to face its tourism future
• ESA ruling: More sound than fury


• March 31, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 6)
• Big Sky, big mess in Montana
• Mexico launches a green offensive


• March 17, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 5)
• Working the Watershed
• Montana Legislature "swirlies' to the right


• March 3, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 4)
• Hunters close ranks, and minds
• Wilderness has a new foe: snowmobiles


• February 17, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 3)
• No home on the range
• A tragic blend of wild and domestic


• February 3, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 2)
• Bringing back the bighorn
• Utah takes waste that Arizona rejected


• January 20, 1997 (Volume 29, Issue 1)
• Bees under siege
• It will be noise as usual in Grand Canyon