Items by Jon Christensen

Can a copper firm restore a blasted ecosystem?
Kennecott Copper wants to clean up Bingham Canyon copper mine on its own, while Environmental Protection Agency wants to make it a Superfund site.
Jon Christensen May 30, 1994 From the print edition
Babbitt attacks mining's gold heists
Barrick Goldstrike Mines pays U.S. $10,000 for $10 billion in gold.
Jon Christensen May 30, 1994 From the print edition
Las Vegas wheels and deals for Colorado River water
Patricia Mulroy negotiates for Southern Nevada Water Authority.
Jon Christensen Feb. 21, 1994 From the print edition
How military secrecy zones out Nevada
A reporter chronicles the strange happenings (that we shouldn't know about) at the top-secret Nevada Test Site.
Jon Christensen Opinion Dec. 27, 1993 From the print edition
DOE unlocks some classified data
Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary launches an "openness initiative' that reveals the DOE's sordid past.
Jon Christensen Dec. 27, 1993 From the print edition
Goldfield Stories
'Goldfield: The last Gold Rush on the Western Frontier' by Sally Zanjani showcases a boomtown with a thousand stories.
Jon Christensen Nov. 29, 1993 From the print edition
The vagaries of western mine reclamation
A "Review of Hardrock Mine Reclamation Practices in Western States' by Ann Kersten and Susan Lynn provides technical background for mining law reform.
Jon Christensen Oct. 4, 1993 From the print edition
The public process
Congress will select a conference committee to negotiate a compromise mining bill.
Jon Christensen Oct. 4, 1993 From the print edition
Miners get personal with Miller
People for the West! stages a protest a BLM decision to allow a massive copper mining project in the historic Robinson mining district is appealed
Jon Christensen Oct. 4, 1993 From the print edition
Babbitt unveils new grazing proposal
Babbitt's grazing reform plans will be implemented slowly.
Jon Christensen Aug. 23, 1993 From the print edition
Nuclear industry rolls snake eyes in Nevada
The Nevada Legislature refuses the temptation of millions in federal funds by opposing the nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mt.
Jon Christensen, Patrick Guinan Aug. 9, 1993 From the print edition
Now dust is his crop, says Nevada rancher
Groundwater pumping dries Milt Thompson's Diamond Valley Ranch.
Jon Christensen Aug. 9, 1993 From the print edition
Rancher joins coalition to fight 'water grabs'
A wary rancher joins an environmental group after groundwater pumping dries his ranch.
Jon Christensen Aug. 9, 1993 From the print edition
Can Hazel O'Leary reinvent the Energy Department
Department head Hazel O'Leary takes steps to revitalize the Department Of Energy.
Jon Christensen June 14, 1993 From the print edition
Restored habitat revives cui-ui
Spring snowmelt helps the endangered cui-cui sucker fish in Nevada.
Jon Christensen May 31, 1993 From the print edition
Bomb testing may resume in Nevada
Nuclear bomb testing could resume in Nevada.
Jon Christensen May 31, 1993 From the print edition
Two reports warn of radioactive bullets
Depleted uranium bullets threaten radioactive contamination on military testing ranges.
Jon Christensen April 5, 1993 From the print edition
Fish in the desert
The Desert Fishes Council publishes a series of papers.
Jon Christensen March 22, 1993 From the print edition
Rhymes from the range attract 8,000
Cowboy poets gather in Elko, Nevada.
Jon Christensen Opinion March 22, 1993 From the print edition
Las Vegas moves on western Colorado's water
An interstate water leasing plan proposal threatens agriculture on Colorado's Western Slope.
Jon Christensen March 8, 1993 From the print edition
A melting pot for unrelated agencies
A brief history of the Department of Energyis outlined.
Jon Christensen Feb. 22, 1993 From the print edition
Can a collegial approach at the top transform DOE?
Newly appointed DOE head, Hazel O'Leary, charts a new course for the Department of Energy.
Jon Christensen Feb. 22, 1993 From the print edition
Nevada fences out hot waste, for now
A low-level nuclear waste dump closes in Beatty, Nevada.
Jon Christensen Feb. 8, 1993 From the print edition
The nuclear age: 1945, the beginning; 1992, the beginning of the end
The atomic age began with a big bang. The buildup to the Cold War took place in a few short years. But the struggle over its legacy and lessons for humanity have just begun.
Jon Christensen Nov. 2, 1992 From the print edition
Land claims and money divide Western Shoshone Tribe
A handful of Western Shoshones have declared independence from the United States at the remote northern Nevada ranch of Carrie and Mary Dann.
Jon Christensen June 1, 1992 From the print edition
Las Vegas: The boom craps out ... and the city has second thoughts about water
Until recently, Las Vegas appeared to be thriving on its unique brand of illusion, while the rest of the country wallowed in a deepening recession. Now hard times have come to Glitter Gulch and the Strip, too, once thought immune to economic doldrums.
Jon Christensen April 6, 1992 From the print edition
Carrot-and-stick tactics are wearing down Nevada
The nuclear industry is betting nearly a million dollars that Nevadans can learn to love a nuclear waste dump.
Jon Christensen Nov. 4, 1991 From the print edition
High noon in Nevada
As a full moon slipped behind the rugged peaks of the Toquima Range, the first light of dawn illuminated a meadow where uniformed Forest Service rangers were saddling horses. Their mission was to round up unauthorized cattle on the Toiyabe National Forest in remote central Nevada.
Jon Christensen Sept. 9, 1991 From the print edition
The bombing of the West
For many of the Navy and Air Force pilots who would fly deadly missions in Operation Desert Storm, their first experience with live bombs was in the Nevada desert.
Jon Christensen May 6, 1991 From the print edition
Nevada Test Site protesters hear it in Kazakh
When 2,500 anti-nuclear protesters came here to vex the Nevada Test Site early in January, probably the last thing they expected was a lecture on democracy from their Soviet counterparts in the peace movement.
Jon Christensen Opinion Jan. 28, 1991 From the print edition
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