Joan Nice

Yellowstone National Park’s image is being been tarnished by disturbing facts emerging about one of the western wilderness’ most critical ingredients: the grizzly bear. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.5/download-entire-issue

One can be a technotwit, a businessman, a flower child or even a woman and win elections in the Rockies, but it helps if one also knows how to swing a rope, or at least a fly rod. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared […]

Outside Meeteetse, Wyo., the debate has shifted from whether black-footed ferrets exist to how to ensure their survival. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.15/download-entire-issue

With the rise of innovative heating systems and home designs, often owner-built, building codes are becoming more controversial. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.3/download-entire-issue

Today solar electricity is running, among other things, a remote refrigerator, a radio repeater, a national park building and a backwoods out-house in the Rocky Mountain states. Six years from now, the U.S. Department of Energy predicts that solar cells will be cheap enough even for the average biscuit baker. Download entire issue to view […]

More than 174 million obscure acres in the West have been spotlighted by the Bureau of Land Management’s wilderness inventory, which is now the subject of public scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.10/download-entire-issue

A group of Crested Butte, Colo., citizens are confronting the 1872 Mining Law as a way to stop AMAX, Inc. from extracting molybdenum from nearby Mt. Emmons. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.17/download-entire-issue

In the second article of a two-part series on wind energy, a giant wind-water generating system is proposed near Medicine Bow in southeastern Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.15/download-entire-issue

Despite a resurgence of enthusiasm for wind power, expensive new wind turbines — many of which are proving unreliable — are undermining widespread adoption of the technology. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.12/download-entire-issue

With varying degrees of success, mediation has been substituted for legal or political confrontation in a number of recent environmental battles. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/11.6/download-entire-issue

A plan to divert the South Platte River in order to recharge groundwater and ease an agricultural water shortage on Colorado’s northeastern plains might also create wetlands that would provide needed wildlife habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.24/download-entire-issue

Although the Department of Energy has focused its attention on encouraging “active” solar technology — which uses separate collectors, pumps and fans — recent research indicates that “passive” systems are cheaper and more effective. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.15/download-entire-issue

When the Forest Service began its second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II) a year ago, industry representative feared it. But now, as environmentalists and even agency officials themselves criticize the plan, timber and mining interests are the only ones who seem pleased. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.13/download-entire-issue

The National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, Mont., is pushing projects that don’t seem controversial — solar heaters, wood stoves, windmills, greenhouses, and compost heaps. But after only a year in operation, NCAT is being criticized by other public interest groups, utilities, and the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.12/download-entire-issue

Utah environmentalists consider themselves practically without representation in Congress, as Senators Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch and congressmen Gunn McKay and Dan Marriott consistently thwart their efforts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/10.9/download-entire-issue