The success of the captive breeding program at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Sybille facility marks the first time that interactions with humans have benefited black-footed ferrets. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.14/download-entire-issue
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Posted inJuly 15, 1991: Special issue: The Central Arizona Project story
Mining pressure forces last-minute BLM wilderness review
The Bureau of Land Management is reconsidering a total of 450,775 acres of potential wilderness, in four Western states, that were initially recommended for wilderness designation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.13/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 1, 1991: The Snake's imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
Park Service and Geological Survey split over geysers
Congress will decide whether the protection afforded to Yellowstone National Park’s famous geothermal wonders should be extended to features beyond the park boundary. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJuly 1, 1991: The Snake's imperiled salmon: A personal call to act
People for the West fronts for the mining industry
The Pueblo, Colo.-based organization boasts more than 40 local chapters throughout the West and has raised close to a million dollars in just over a year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 17, 1991: A wilderness war: Utah's canyons cut to the bone
Montana spurns feds to hold spring grizzly hunt
Montana wildlife officials have rebuffed federal pressure to call off a special early grizzly bear hunt. Federal wildlife officials wanted it stopped in order to prevent a possible overkill this year of the threatened species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 3, 1991: A fading Yellowstone 'Vision'
Birth control for wild horses?
Faced with population numbers well over established management levels, the BLM is looking for some creative management ideas to control the burgeoning wild horse population. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 20, 1991: Solar power becomes a reality
A Vietnam vet tries to preserve the Blackfeet culture
Twenty years after a Viet Cong rocket left him with a concussion and flesh wounds, Ron West has become a warrior for Blackfeet spiritual leaders fighting to preserve the Badger-Two Medicine area south of Glacier National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 6, 1991: The bombing of the West
A new hotel on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim?
The National Park Service now wants to build a modern, two-story hotel with 100 rooms only 50 yards from the edge of the canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 6, 1991: The bombing of the West
Environmentalists differ over old-growth protection
As momentum builds for passing legislation to protect what remains of the Northwest’s ancient forests, national environmental groups are urging the region’s grassroots activists to set aside past differences and unite behind the Ancient Forest Protection Bill. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 8, 1991: Overgrazing: Feds move to end it
Forest Service spends wilderness money on logging
Government Accounting Office (GAO) findings that the Forest Service spent nearly 40 percent of money allocated for wilderness in other areas — including recreation and timber — have led environmentalists and a key congressman to call for sweeping changes in the agency’s structure. Over the last four years Congress has increased appropriations for wilderness by […]
Posted inMarch 26, 1991: The nuclear wasting of the West
Geological controversy haunts Nevada waste site
Yucca Mountain may one day be home to the nation’s most deadly garbage — highly radioactive spent reactor fuel rods and other detritus of the nation’s 40-year experiment with nuclear power. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inMarch 12, 1991: Missouri: a river basin at war
Preservation or development for Idaho’s Oregon Trail?
As most of the Oregon Trail is lost to development, preservationists and developers are wrangling over a segment of the trail in Idaho that still contains visible wagon ruts. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.4/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 25, 1991: Colorado enters a new water era
Oregon’s Enola Hill: ‘diseased forest’ or sacred site?
The Forest Service wants to log the steep, forested rise near Mount Hood. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.3/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 11, 1991: Idaho savors its waters as region seeks more hydropower
Montana’s bison extermination policy to continue
A national animal-rights group failed to convince a federal judge that the state of Montana should stop killing free-roaming Yellowstone National Park bison. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/23.2/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 28, 1991: Coyote slaughter: A federal killing machine rolls on
The sudden demise of the whitebark pine
In the upper reaches of North America’s alpine terrain, the whitebark pine has lived for centuries, with many trees surviving for as long as 800 years. But today the species is on a serious decline, and some scientists believe the trees are waving a red flag at us. Download entire issue to view this article: […]
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
How a gold mining company keeps expanding in Montana
Zortman Mining Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pegasus Gold Inc., recently proposed and won approval of a major expansion at its mine in the Little Rocky Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
Montana bison hunts presage a range war
Montana’s largest hunting organization has joined animal-rights activists and conservationists in condemning the state’s hunt on bison leaving Yellowstone National Park this winter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 31, 1990: The land no one wanted
‘Son of Sagebrush Rebellion’ is now playing in Nevada
Widespread reports of the resurrection of the Sagebrush Rebellion are greatly exaggerated. So says a founder of the movement, Nevada rancher and state senator Dean Rhoads. But read on. To read this article, click the “View a PDF from the original” link below. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the […]
Posted inDecember 17, 1990: Animas-La Plata: still flawed
Timber cuts raised in northern Rockies
Supervisors of many national forests in the northern Rockies have been ordered to cut more timber than they recommended. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 3, 1990: A dead end for the grizzly?
Nevada’s rural counties debate how to keep their water
Central Nevada’s rural “cow counties” are girding for a protracted water war with Las Vegas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.23/download-entire-issue