The Idaho National Energy Lab is the biggest blind spot in Idaho politics. Politicians who rail against the evils of big government while pulling every string for INEL projects are faithfully reflecting those who elect them. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.24/download-entire-issue
Pat Ford
Posted inNovember 21, 1988: The West voted left, right and center
Idaho: The political winds have shifted
Statewide, conservation and outdoor issues played a key role only in the race won by Rep. Richard Stallings. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 24, 1988: The future
Balkanized, atomized Idaho
A combination of technological change and free market ideology has led the nation to abandon not just railroad and bus lines but its long-held commitment to universal transportation and communication. The article describes the Balkanization process and its consequences for the rural West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 10, 1988: Environmentalism triumphant
Now Idaho wants national parks
In theory, wild, beautiful and lightly populated Idaho should be bursting with national parks. In fact, its ranching, logging and mining roots have kept it totally free of parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.19/download-entire-issue
Posted inSeptember 12, 1988: The Reopening of the Western Frontier, Part 1
During the boom, Idaho succumbed to good sense
Lest you think that the entire West succumbed to the hypnotic beat of boom, boom, boom, here is an account of how the conservative state of Idaho behaved conservatively — resisting the lure of a coal-fired power plant that was to carry the state to the land of milk and honey. Download entire issue to […]
Posted inFebruary 1, 1988: Idaho's potato king proposes 100 power plants
McClure-Andrus wilderness bill is worse than nothing
The McClure-Andrus package is obviously superior, statewide, to McClure’s 1984 proposal. But the transformation of public perceptions that we require has not occurred. Now the exigencies of substantially improving or fighting this legislation will dominate our time. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 21, 1987: Caves need protection
Idaho debates public land access
The Idaho Conservation League joins a battle to regain access to a part of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 11, 1987: A struggle for an Arizona peak
Rancher-lawmaker takes on the establishment
Idaho’s John Peavey proves that a legislator can win major fights against the West’s power triangle — big business, utilities and the farm-ranch establishment. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 27, 1987: Two views of Allan Savory
BuRec looks anew at the Teton Dam site
Ten years after the collapse of the Teton Dam, irrigators and city officials in eastern Idaho are beginning a campaign to rebuild it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 16, 1987: A game ranching bill in Wyoming pits landowners against hunters
Idaho enters the nuclear weapons business
The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory near Idaho Falls is preparing for its first major nuclear weapons project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 2, 1987: The West cleans up its act
New powerline could electrocute salmon
The Northwest’s energy surplus is the latest battleground in the decades-long trench warfare between salmon and steelhead advocates and the Bonneville Power Administration. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 24, 1986: The two-party system is back
In the West: Sen. James McClure and the Forest Service are big losers
Among Western Republicans, McClure is the biggest loser from the Senate shift. For six years he has kept Forest Service timber and roadbuilding budgets high and Bureau of Land Management grazing fees low. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 25, 1985: Tribes struggle for sovereignty and power
Idaho will negotiate water right with tribes
Far-reaching water negotiations have begun between the state of Idaho and the Shoshone-Bannock tribes over water rights in the Snake River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 24, 1985: Murky language lands an EIS in deep water
Idaho forests to get $1.3 billion in roads
Northern Idaho’s three National Forests plan to build 16,570 miles of new roads over the next 45 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 13, 1985: Mining may come to a wilderness
The economics of logging will shape Idaho wildlands
The recent decline in Idaho’s wood-products industry helps explain why the industry and the Idaho congressional delegation led by Republican Sen. James McClure have fought so fiercely against additional wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 29, 1985: A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho's Priest Lake
A financial buccaneer and his resort come to Idaho’s Priest Lake
Priest Lake’s future is tangled in a web of money-making through the doings and undoings of British financier Sir James Goldsmith. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 15, 1985: Peaches and apples roar back
Idaho will further dewater the Snake River
The ratification of the Snake River Water Agreement sets off an adjudication of water rights on the Snake River. It’s expected to take 10 years to determine how much unappropriated water remains to be diverted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 4, 1985: The West as military target
Look at the forest as well as the trees
A court decision could force the Forest Service to do comprehensive, cumulative studies on the effects of roads built into roadless areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 1, 1984: A Western tradition ends with a conference on America's parks
A Western tradition ends with a conference on America’s parks
A report on the Institute of the American West’s conference, Parks in the West and American Culture. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.18/download-entire-issue