Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Sexy weapon thwarts bugs. Jay Brunner is hunched over a microscope, watching a tiny wasp crawl over a bright-green caterpillar called a leafroller. The ant-sized wasp has laid about 10 eggs on the leafroller’s dense web. When the young wasps hatch, the entomologist […]
Lisa Jones
Posted inNovember 14, 1994: Land grant universities
Apple growers become patrons of science
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Sexy weapon thwarts bugs. Washington’s asparagus growers will pay WSU scientists $12,000 this year to figure out how to prevent asparagus spears from softening during canning. Pea and lentil growers will spend about $50,000 on researching soil conservation. And the tiny cranberry industry […]
Posted inJune 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah's canyons cut to the bone
A wilderness war: Utah’s canyons cut to the bone
The wilderness debate is forcing rural Utahns to confront their deepest hopes and fears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 8, 1991: Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
The Forest Service claims parts of the Big Cimarron grazing allotment on the Uncompahgre National Forest are chronically overgrazed, and says the bulk of the area should be managed for recreation and the protection of its rivers and lakes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.6/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Animas-La Plata: still flawed
The $590 million Animas-La Plata water project Congress reauthorized in 1988 continues to generate controversy in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 8, 1990: Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Can natural gas fuel a Rocky Mountain high?
Rocky Mountain states bet on pipelines to get gas to the burgeoning California market. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 24, 1995: Making a mountain into a starbase
The astronomer
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Making a mountain into a starbase. “Observatories are usually exceedingly benign places. They become animal refuges …” Peter Strittmatter, a British astronomer with a Ph.D. from Cambridge, became director of the U of A’s Steward Observatory in 1975, an appointment he recognized as “a […]