To the Rocky Mountain West, the $4.4 billion atom-smashing Superconducting Super Collider represents economic development of the most desirable kind. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.15/download-entire-issue
Ed Marston
Posted inJune 22, 1987: Update on Yellowstone: Mott quietly locks horns with his boss
The Forest Service kowtows while forests burn
Our belief is that America will recover itself by the end of this decade, and stop the destruction of the forests. To do that, it will have to destroy the once-proud U.S. Forest Service. That will be easy, for the agency has deeply wounded itself. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 8, 1987: Wyoming's vast, scarred Red Desert
Wyoming’s vast, scarred Red Desert
The Red Desert is quiet now, but the marks remain from a period of oil, gas and uranium exploration and extraction. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 25, 1987: Groundwater pollution: A silent, insidious invasion
EPA rips the Two Forks EIS
The Environmental Protection Agency has given a flunking grade to the draft version of a $30 million environmental impact statement on the Denver metropolitan area’s future water supply system. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 30, 1987: The Northern Utes take on Utah
How the Ute Tribe lost its water
The way in which the Northern Utes of northeast Utah have lost their water to the Central Utah Project is both difficult to believe and all too believable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
Marriage of convenience
Even as we make our alliances, there is no doubt that the environmental movement’s next great effort will be to contain and civilize the “recreation” industry, the “retirement” industry, and whatever else moves into the economic vacuum in the rural Rockies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
The West cleans up its act
An acid rain-causing copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., closes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 19, 1987: Rebottling the nuclear genie
The West’s top stories: land, land, land, land
The 1986 High Country News index beginning on page 8 lists hundreds of individual stories, but all are about the same question: the use and control of the land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 22, 1986: An America that did not happen
Treaty ends Colorado water wars
The City of Denver, the West Slope’s Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Northern Colorado Water Conservation District have decided to end decades of courtroom and political bloodletting by signing a tripartite agreement. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 10, 1986: The Colorado River as plumbing
They built better than they knew
The upper Colorado River was plumbed to put water on arid lands and to generate electricity. Today those uses are in decline while recreation, urbanization and aesthetics come on strong. Through luck or forethought, the river’s plumbing is proving adaptable to the new demands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
How could anyone oppose, or favor, the Garrison Project?
North Dakota’s Garrison Project would irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres, cost about $1 million per farm, devastate wildlife habitat, and add only a tiny fraction to the state’s farmland. But the project would also reassure a remote, hurting and suspicious part of America. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
The Missouri River: Developed, but for what?
America can’t keep its hands off its rivers. In the Columbia and Colorado basins, the damming and diverting has produced new economic bases, enormous amounts of irrigated desert lands and green cities in what was desert. But the transformation of the long, wide, muddy Missouri has had little effect on the region. Download entire issue […]
Posted inOctober 13, 1986: The Columbia River: An Age of Reform
The stuff of moral tales
Will just enough be done — by increasing the number of fish hatcheries, by limiting logging, and by rationing the fishtake — to keep the salmon runs marginally alive? Or will more far-reaching steps be taken to bring back the spirit, as well as the fish, of the good old days? Download entire issue to […]
Posted inSeptember 29, 1986: Western Water Made Simple
Western water made simple
Western water once existed in a protected world unto itself, made up of complex laws and regulations, tight political alliances, bureaucracies and massive federal subsidies. But now it is subject to real world forces, making it understandable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 29, 1986: Western Water Made Simple
When water kingdoms clash
A water deal between California’s Imperial Irrigation District and the Metropolitan Water District was to bring water marketing of age. Instead, it has revealed the pitfalls that lie in the path of water marketing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
Real reclamation
The choice by Kennecott and Asarco to clean up their smelters early on rather than be pushed out because of pollution shows that reduced livestock and logging industries can also survive — but only if they adapt. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
The West’s lakes are safer
Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to close the Phelps Dodge copper smelter in Douglas, Ariz., will reduce acid rain in mountain lakes like those in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 4, 1986: Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
Gudy Gaskill and some friends build a 480-mile trail
The Colorado Trail — a Denver to Durango mountain path for hikers, horses and mountain bikes — is being built for a pittance by volunteers after a well-funded professional effort collapsed several years ago. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 7, 1986: Taking on the farm banks
Taking on the farm banks
A sheep-ranching family struggles against the Production Credit Association, a bank meant to help farmers but that sometimes appears to turn on them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 9, 1986: The dismal science grabs agriculture by the throat
Anger, blame, depression
A hearing in March 1986 at the Colorado State Legislature almost ended in a fist fight when an attorney for the Farmers Home Administration supposedly called a farmer “boy.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.11/download-entire-issue