Although U.S. Steel denies it, the firm is shutting down the immense Geneva mill step by step, even as it wrings millions in profits out of it and the workers it plans to layoff. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Ed Marston
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
A concentration camp was Wyoming’s third largest city
During World War II, 11,000 American and Japanese-born men, women and children were detained at Heart Mountain. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 18, 1985: The boom is back in southwestern Wyoming
A proposed 35-million-acre land swap is shrouded in confusion
Some conservationists think the land swap is designed to benefit mining and drilling companies. But industry, perhaps because it’s been burned by earlier administration initiatives, is not speaking strongly in support. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 4, 1985: Uranium mines and mills may have caused birth defects among Navajo Indians
Two western forces clash at Jackson Lake
The frailness of Jackson Dam brings two sacred Western forces into conflict: agricultural water rights versus one of America’s most beautiful and popular national parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
Is America’s Indian policy that of ‘starve or sell’?
To some, the issue with a vetoed Indian health care bill is simply the delivery of health services on and off reservations. But to others it is a possible plot to put the tribes in a position where they must deal away their natural resources at low prices in order to survive. Download entire issue […]
Posted inNovember 26, 1984: A Guide to the 99th Congress
The 99th Congress will face scores of resource and environmental questions
A look at how the upcoming congress may treat Forest Service logging, BLM grazing, the Clean Air Act and more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1984: Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
Can the Forest Service survive?
Several months ago, we asked: Can the Forest Service be reformed? Now, after seeing that the agency can’t even get along with the Wyoming delegation, we ask: Can the Forest Service survive? Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1984: Fierce beauty devoid of economic advantage
Jackson Hole tries its hand at forest management
The question of Forest Service intentions has arisen most starkly on the Bridger-Teton National Forests, where the value of timber, oil and gas are dwarfed by recreation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 29, 1984: Is Colorado River water for sale?
Is Colorado River water for sale?
The Central Arizona Project is at least a year away from watering lawns, golf courses and crops in the Phoenix area. But the multibillion-dollar diversion of water out of the Colorado River is already rearranging the way water is viewed in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 15, 1984: America debates and litigates the future of its forests
The courts are now the forum for resolving forest disputes
The battle against the Forest Service’s timber practices is a dispersed guerilla war, fought on local fronts through numerous, sophisticated lawsuits. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America's parks
Agency locks horns with Montana Power
The Public Service Commission’s denial of Montana Power Company’s $92 million rate increase may be the least of the utility’s problems. Buried in the back of the commission’s harsh, accusing 120-page decision is a clear sign that the PSC may never let MPC sell Colstrip’s power to its customers. Download entire issue to view this […]
Posted inSeptember 3, 1984: Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
Acid rain: The damage it does can be deadly
Like the shape and size of an iceberg, most of the acid rain problem is thus far unknown or out of sight. But what can be seen suggests that it could become an historic issue. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
Colorado’s civil war pits East against West
Fruit growers, cattle ranchers and energy and tourist industries have sued about transmountain diversion for a half century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
Cattle are also at home in the National Parks
Livestock grazing has been grandfathered in at twenty National Park units in the West, including Grand Teton in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.14/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 23, 1984: Grazing in the West
The BLM is pressed by two factions
The Bureau took notice of the rebellion, which was an attempt to get the Congress of the courts to transfer BLM land to state ownership. “Even before Watt took over, the Bureau reacted to the Sagebrush Rebels. They cut back on attempts to make changes. I think they believed that if there were a legislative […]
Posted inJuly 9, 1984: Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
Can Edward Abbey learn to love Glen Canyon Dam?
Tom Gambler, a career Bureau of Reclamation man, wants to show writer Edward Abbey through Glen Canyon Dam. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1984: Geology of the West
Stagecoach Dam is almost driven out
In Steamboat Springs, Colo., a proposed small reservoir was almost defeated by a coalition of ranchers, businessmen and consumer activists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 11, 1984: The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
The Big Dam Era on the Colorado River enters a new stage
A potential legal and physical reworking of the Colorado River could reshape it as much as did the 1956 Colorado River Storage Project Act, which authorized Glen Canyon Dam and others. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 28, 1984: Utah Governor declares war on a Canyonlands nuclear dump
Kootenai Falls decision is different
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission judge makes a startling decision to reject Montana’s Kootenai Falls Project in favor of preserving the falls in their natural state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 30, 1984: Can the West swim upstream to jobs and happiness?
Yoo-hooing our way to decline
Especially in the West — where independence and conservatism are an authentic part of the regional consciousness — we all understand the hypocritical and ultimately destructive nature of the cargo cult and pork barrel approaches. But we have been able to pretend we do not really understand what is happening. Download entire issue to view […]