Is the rural West becoming a dumping ground for toxic waste and garbage?


Forest Service sues in Colorado to keep its water

The dewatering of the national forests has been going on for a long time. But now the U.S. Forest Service is fighting for its stream channels in a Greeley, Colo., state water court, claiming roughly half the stream flows in four national forests in northeastern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue

Railroad plans garbage express

When a persistent real estate agent arranged for Alonzo and Robert Rogers to sell 1,200 acres of the southwestern South Dakota ranch, the bachelor brothers had no idea their land was part of a plan to build a massive garbage dump serving faraway cities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue

Strange tales along the Powwow Highway

We are dying today in droves while liberal Americans profit in the billion-dollar-a-year New Age industry, which sells overpriced and artificial Thunderbird shields and sexy doeskin dresses to bored, rich cosmopolitans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue