The sheriff was the first to see that a 14-mile section of the North Platte, that high-plains haven for rainbow and brown trout, was strangling. The killer was a spill of more than 90,000 gallons of gasoline that escaped from a ruptured pipeline and bubbled nine miles down a dusty arroyo into the river. Download […]
Jim Scott
Posted inApril 22, 1977: Bighorn water battle goes to court
The bald eagle: our endangered emblem
Roughly two hundred years after the bald eagle was chosen as America’s national symbol, population studies conducted by the Department of Interior reveal a devastating nose-dive in the numbers of bald eagles. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 8, 1976: Rocks, rivers, snakes, solitude -- Owyhee
Denver growth demands more dams
The Denver Water Board proposes to construct the $350 million Two Forks Dam on the South Platte River to meet Denver’s growing water needs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.20/download-entire-issue