Coal development in the Northern Great Plains already seems to be progressing at a level higher than anticipated when the Northern Great Plains Resource Program completed its draft interim report last fall. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.1/download-entire-issue
Marjane Ambler
Posted inAugust 1, 1975: Power plant ahead
Clif Merritt: he leads from behind
Clifton Merritt, the western regional director of the Wilderness Society, is an atypical environmental leader — not flashy or full of fire and brimstone, but good at motivating people positively. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.16/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 18, 1989: Poachers: Driving wild things to extinction
Tribe undertakes a huge reclamation job
In 1986, Anaconda Minerals, a division of Atlantic Richfield Co., signed over to the Laguna Pueblo $43.6 million and the responsibility for reclaiming the Jackpile-Paguate uranium mines. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 25, 1989: Special issue: High Country News is 20
Tom Bell: The quiet revolutionary
In 1970, High Country News was born of Tom Bell’s passion. For five years its pages thundered with his outrage at ranchers, politicians and corporations that threatened Wyoming’s water, wild lands and animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.18/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 27, 1986: The Missouri River: In Search of Destiny
The real water lawyers
Ditch riders on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation work with an aged, deteriorated system, very rough measuring means, and farmers who are quick to assume that they are being shorted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 18, 1985: A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
A busted Wyoming mining town remains haunted by 550 lost jobs
Lander, Wyo., is still reeling from U.S. Steel’s decision last April to permanently close its Atlantic City iron ore mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 10, 1984: Is America's Indian policy that of 'starve or sell'?
Indians will again ask Congress for control of the coal they own
The coal-owning tribes of the West hope to finally escape the regulatory limbo they have been in since passage of the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inAugust 6, 1984: The national forests are cooking
The West’s tailings mess becomes a legal mess
At sites throughout the West, Department of Energy contractors are scurrying to remove uranium tailings from buildings and lots where they have been sitting for 20 years or more. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.15/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 14, 1983: New coalition fights pipeline
Zah warns that mining is not a panacea
Navajo Tribal Chairman Peterson Zah told the Council of Energy Resource Tribes members here last month that they should not look at energy resources as the answer to all the problems that exist on their reservations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 21, 1983: Selling every seat in the House -- and Senate
Indians gain significant water rights
Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming have succeeded at gaining protection for instream flows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 26, 1982: Whitewater trespass
CERT taking new direction
The Council of Energy Resource Tribes board has chosen as its new chairman the leader of a tribe that has opposed energy development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 12, 1982: Running the Rockies' wild and scenic rivers
Of profit and risk
The Wyoming Industrial Siting Council is being prudent in considering requiring the Hampshire Energy Company, which is planning a coal-to-gasoline conversion plant in Gillette, Wyo., to post a performance bond to protect local governments. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 25, 1982: A $40 million pork barrel
Tribes and energy companies: A taxing problem
After initial victory celebrations, Indian tribes with energy resources on their reservations are reeling from the backlash to the Supreme Court’s ruling affirming their right to tax energy production on their lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 30, 1982: Using the best guess
Federal coal sale brings $54 million
The Powder River Basin federal coal lease sale — the largest such sale in history — resulted in the sale of all but two of the 13 tracts offered. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 26, 1981: The Overthrust moneybelt: Difficult dispersal of impact dollars
“We don’t have separation of powers here” — the testing of tribal courts
A legal battle on Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation illustrates the quandary many tribal governments have as they face energy development decisions. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 29, 1981: Rolling down the road -- the invisible network of nuclear transport
Reagan budget hits Indian self-sufficiency
President Reagan’s proposed budget would allot more taxpayer dollars to Indian reservations but also impair the tribes’ efforts to gain control over energy development on reservations, undermining Indian tribes’ efforts to become more self-sufficient. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1981: John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
Cocky CERT courts controversy, loses four tribes
The Council of Energy Resource Tribes emerged in 1975 with the bravado of a homegrown OPEC, but some tribes are withdrawing as the organization comes under federal scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 6, 1981: John Baden: Put public lands in private hands
Tribes to monitor leases?
Indian tribal leaders recently told a Senate committee that they could do a better job of monitoring oil operations on their lands then the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 12, 1980: Rebels revel in new power, polish
Energy companies seek peace — and resources — with Indians
Indian tribes may own one-third of the West’s low-sulfur coal and half the nation’s private uranium, and the energy industry is trying to connect with these and other resources on Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 31, 1980: Archeologists dig for points, paydirt
Tribes hold energy hostage in battle for control
Three Indian tribes in North Dakota have adopted seismic exploration regulations, issued permits and hired Indian guides for oil developers, all to address a lack of authority by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.21/download-entire-issue