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The battle to save the endangered Snake River salmon from extinction heated up this month, as Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus threatened to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies responsible for salmon recovery plans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue

Wildlife refuges have never been just for wildlife. The 90 million-acre national wildlife refuge system also hosts military maneuvers, cattle, hunters, boaters and other “secondary” users. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue

A bitter, five-year congressional fight over the world’s first engineered nuclear waste dump has been settled in time-honored fashion: in the back room. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue

Prodded by stinging internal audits” and the likelihood that Congress will pass a sweeping reform bill in 1993, Bureau of Land Management officials are pushing a new grazing fee policy they hope will resolve the controversy over use of public lands by livestock. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.24/download-entire-issue

In a bold move to resolve the bitter land dispute between the Hopi and Navajo tribes, the United States government is attempting to award the Native Americans about 500,000 acres surrounding Flagstaff. Download entire issue to view this article: https://www.hcn.org/issues/24.23/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service may put cows back on land that the Arizona Game and Fish Department is studying for possible reintroduction of the endangered Mexican gray wolf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue

Two days after Bill Clinton’s election, an unlikely group met in Farmington, N.M., to talk about radically    changing how decisions are made in the West. The conspirators were long-time enemies who came together to see if they could cooperate on one of the region’s most contentious battles: the operation of Glen Canyon Dam. Download entire […]

On the wet meadows of western Colorado’s Chance Gulch, a rare game bird’s dance floor may soon be too hot to trot. These sage-covered hills and grassy draws support the last stable breeding population of the Gunnison sage grouse. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.22/download-entire-issue

Canyon Forest Village, proposed for a site near the Park’s South Rim entrance, would include private housing, rental units, mobile homes, hiking and biking trails, an “experiential education center,” stores, schools and churches. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.21/download-entire-issue

In yet another chapter of the Sagebrush Rebellion in southeastern Utah, two rural counties are trying to a force the federal government to allow construction of the Book Cliffs Highway across some of the state’s wildest land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.20/download-entire-issue

Members of the Idaho Conservation League pounded a wooden stake into the grass of a posh golf course here to prove that even Sun Valley resorts are vulnerable to mineral exploration under the nation’s old mining law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.18/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Department of Energy continues to dangle the carrot of nuclear waste storage, along with money to study the idea, before the hungry eyes of Indian tribes and rural counties in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.17/download-entire-issue

An influential congressman’s proposal to create the nation’s first all-wilderness national forest in central Idaho has the Forest Service scrambling. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.16/download-entire-issue

After nearly two years of negotiations, a large portion of the Escalante River drainage in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has been permanently closed to grazing. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.15/download-entire-issue

Local governments in logging communities of northwestem Montana have joined a lawsuit that seeks to force tree-cutting in the Kootenai National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.14/download-entire-issue

The Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected a plea to reconsider its 3-2 ruling that restricts the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes’ use of “future” water and makes the state the administrator of federal reserved-water rights. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.13/download-entire-issue

Grizzly bears feeding on spawning trout have fueled a debate over the $48 million Fish Bridge redevelopment project proposed for the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.11/download-entire-issue

A handful of Western Shoshones have declared independence from the United States at the remote northern Nevada ranch of Carrie and Mary Dann. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.10/download-entire-issue

When the state Water Resources Board proposed a ban on hydroelectric development for streams in the Henry’s Fork Basin, few expected it would face rough sledding in the 1992 Idaho Legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.8/download-entire-issue

A hundred years after the West’s wild buffalo herds were wiped out, the Native American Inter-Tribal Buffalo Cooperative is attempting to bring the great animal-back to Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.8/download-entire-issue