Great story on accessory dwelling units, or ADUs (“Casitas against displacement,” August 2021). You covered different approaches and dug into the up- and downsides. Not saying that’s unusual for HCN, but just wanted to pass on my compliments. Jim Hight Buena Vista, Colorado This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the […]
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Posted inMay 30, 2005: Write-off on the Range
Better technology for harnessing wind
The inherent variability of wind energy makes it hard to integrate into the grid (HCN, 5/02/05: The Winds of Change). Coal, gas, nuclear, biomass, geothermal and hydro plants can all be dialed up or down to meet the constantly fluctuating electricity loads. With wind, you get what you get. At 1 percent of production, as […]
Posted inDecember 7, 1998: Vail and the road to a recreational empire
Using tools of destruction to restore redwoods
ARCATA, Calif. – In a dense forest of second-growth redwoods next to a logging road, Bill Weaver bounces on a culvert pipe so rusted it’s ready to collapse. A stagnant pool of water is the only sign of the torrent that will gush through the pipe when autumn rains start. “If this culvert hasn’t already […]
Posted inNovember 11, 1996: Cease-fire called on the Animas-La Plata front
A listing and a delay
Faced with a court-imposed deadline, the National Marine Fisheries Service listed only one West Coast coho salmon population as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. The agency announced Oct. 25 that coho along coastal Central California deserved threatened status under the law, but two populations in Northern California and Oregon will be studied for another […]