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In 1986, Anaconda Minerals, a division of Atlantic Richfield Co., signed over to the Laguna Pueblo $43.6 million and the responsibility for reclaiming the Jackpile-Paguate uranium mines. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.24/download-entire-issue

A 50-member Hispanic cooperative hopes that a state task force will come up with a plan to let the group’s sheep graze on public land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.21/download-entire-issue

Montana’s National Guard tank brigade wants to train in a 1,500-square-miles part of the state. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.20/download-entire-issue

In the Bridger-Teton National Forest, timber is losing and wildlife and recreation may be winning. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.19/download-entire-issue

In June, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its Canadian counterpart called for an end to the 14-year-old, $1.5 million “cross-fostering project.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.17/download-entire-issue

Transplanted woodland caribou stick it out in the Selkirk Mountains. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.16/download-entire-issue

A country-swing dancer who showed up in Prescott last summer had a bug in his shirt, recording hundreds of hours of conversations between members of the radical environmental group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.15/download-entire-issue

Twenty-four people were arrested July 11 while protesting the logging of old-growth forests in southern Oregon’s North Kalmiopsis area. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.14/download-entire-issue

On July 12, the Utah Board of State Lands and Forestry voted unanimously to approve a draft “marketing plan” to sell off 116,000 acres of state-owned-lands within Arches National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the Navajo and Goshute Indian reservations. Download entire issue to view this […]

Conservationists haven’t yet figured out how to blow the whistle on McClure without also seeming to be attacking Andrus. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.13/download-entire-issue

The Desert Museum’s captive breeding program may be the last hope for the Mexican gray wolf. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.12/download-entire-issue

The drought of 1987 and 1988 has sent water levels on Missouri River reservoirs plummeting toward record lows, intensifying conflicts between upper and lower basin states over river and reservoir management and water allocations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.11/download-entire-issue

The Gray Ranch stretches north from the Mexican border in the far west corner of the state to take in most of the 45-mile-long Animas Mountains and surrounding desert. Seventy-five species of mammals, more than are found in any national park or wildlife refuge, live in habitats that range from dry grasslands to a forested […]

According to a February report published by the Western Organization of Resource Councils, the new tax rates have significantly reduced state income and not produced new jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.10/download-entire-issue

Nearly 30,000 acres of federal land in Wyoming have been sold to private owners in the last 12 years — at an average price of $2.68 an acre, federal records show. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.9/download-entire-issue

Denver, Colorado’s giant Two Forks Dam received a crippling blow on March 24, when Environmental Protection Agency national administrator William Reilly ordered his Denver office to begin a veto of the project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.7/download-entire-issue

Prairie potholes of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa are the most productive ecosystems in the U.S., says a Department of Interior study. They are also the most threatened. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.6/download-entire-issue

With the turmoil showing little sign of abating, millions of dollars worth of economic development prospects — the linchpin of MacDonald’s administration — may also soon go down the drain as investors shy away. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.5/download-entire-issue

Conservationists pushing for a law preserving instream flows in New Mexico rivers are once more finding a formidable foe in State Engineer Steven Reynolds. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.3/download-entire-issue

The discovery of rich gold deposits in the brown Tuscarora Mountains northwest of Elko, Nev., has ignited a latter day gold rush. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.3/download-entire-issue