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Hundreds of Hopis across the reservation say their water is disappearing because of the Black Mesa Mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.21/download-entire-issue

Efforts by an oil company to initiate a coal-bed methane project in Wyoming’s ecologically fragile Red Desert have run into a wall of opposition from federal and state agencies as well as citizens. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.21/download-entire-issue

In June, the state reversed an earlier recommendation and turned down a PCB incinerator proposed by Tiffany Metals, an Idaho Falls salvage yard. Four weeks later, the state granted a permit for a medical incinerator in American Falls. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.20/download-entire-issue

A new invasion of mountain goats — and a plan to shoot them — is forcing Yellowstone resource managers to re-open the old debate over maintaining native and exotic species in America’s oldest wildlife sanctuary. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.20/download-entire-issue

Trees cut on state lands in the West can no longer slip past local mills onto foreign-bound ships. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.18/download-entire-issue

The dewatering of the national forests has been going on for a long time. But now the U.S. Forest Service is fighting for its stream channels in a Greeley, Colo., state water court, claiming roughly half the stream flows in four national forests in northeastern Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.17/download-entire-issue

Daishowa Paper Co. stalls effort to remove two hydroelectric dams on Washington’s Elwha River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.16/download-entire-issue

Members of a revived council want to run the Forest Service out and bring in the National Park Service to administer a Hells Canyon National Park and Preserve. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.15/download-entire-issue

Federal officials recently announced plans to dilute the Endangered Species Act and continue logging the owl’s habitat. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.14/download-entire-issue

As a result of four months of negotiations between unionized lumber mill workers and a coalition of conservationists, separate accords have emerged drawing wilderness boundaries for two of the state’s 10 national forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.13/download-entire-issue

Lake Roosevelt was largely unnoticed until 1986, when the Washington Department of Ecology first studied heavy metals contamination in the lake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue

In Wells, Nevada, local residents would gladly trade the fresh air for jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue

The 1990 Senate compromise bill would increase pollution 23 percent throughout the West. It would also weaken the power of the federal government to protect the air over pristine areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.8/download-entire-issue

Three Northwest forest researchers conclude that converting old-growth to young forests won’t slow down global warming. Their results may help settle one question in the Northwest’s intense debate over its remaining ancient forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.6/download-entire-issue

The gray wolf is coming back to Montana, and those who raise sheep and other livestock are going to have to learn to live with it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue

The taxpayers of Utah have decided to enter one of the most demanding and expensive international competitions — the contest to host the winter Olympic Games. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.3/download-entire-issue

An exhaustive study of tribal colleges is a scathing indictment of the federal government for its failure to adequately support the nation’s 24 tribally controlled two- and four-year colleges. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue

A paleontologist has unearthed evidence suggesting wolves existed in Yellowstone National Park for hundreds of years, rebutting critics of restoring wolves who say the area was never home to the animals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.1/download-entire-issue

Critics charge that planners created a giant hole in the protection of the forest: Almost all its non-wilderness lands will be open to potential oil and gas development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue