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A recent outbreak of a deadly disease in Idaho’s Salmon River bighorn sheep herd has raised the old issue of whether domestic sheep are to blame. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.2/download-entire-issue

Bush faced the nearly impossible task of trying to satisfy groups which have opposing philosophies of how to manage the federal lands administered by the Interior Department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.2/download-entire-issue

Although the proposed Cisco toxic waste incinerator was rejected by Grand County voters, Utah still faces major decisions on toxic waste disposal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/21.1/download-entire-issue

Geronimo’s skull may have been on display for 70 years inside the Yale University’s exclusive Skull and Bones Society. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.23/download-entire-issue

Close to 500 wild horses have been shot and left to decay in the Nevada desert over the last two years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.22/download-entire-issue

The Department of Energy predicts it will take 20 years to remove the haphazardly dumped material that has already contaminated the Snake River Plain Aquifer with toxic organic chemicals and has leaked plutonium into deep sediments below the site. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.16/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases its Biological Opinion on the effects of telescopes on the Mount Graham red squirrel, an endangered species. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.15/download-entire-issue

Water marketing is increasing because of the rising cost of water and public resistance to dams. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.14/download-entire-issue

During its 20-year history, the annual Boy Scout Elk Antler Auction, held each spring in Jackson, Wyo., has slowly become dominated by antler traders from the Orient who export the horns to Korea and transform them into wafer-sized aphrodisiacs or medicinal teas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue

Proposals to designate the river as “wild and scenic” run into lingering proposals for dams. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.12/download-entire-issue

One of the fastest growing and most lucrative sports in the West is river running, and river runners who once rafted at will now run on restricted launch dates and compete for access. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.10/download-entire-issue

The Interior Department has suffered a setback to its plans for a greater role in marketing Missouri River reservoir water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.8/download-entire-issue

When the nation’s newest national monument — New Mexico’s El Malpais — was signed into being by President Reagan in 1987, the 20-year battle to preserve the state’s lavaland was lauded by New Mexico politicians and wilderness groups. But the neighboring Acoma Tribe was quiet. For two years it has objected to some of the […]

Wyoming, already hard-hit by the long decline in oil and gas prices and exploration, is further strapped without the taxes it expected from Exxon’s LaBarge project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.6/download-entire-issue

Wyoming’s Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian tribes are happily drowning in water rights following a victory over the state in the Wyoming Supreme Court. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.5/download-entire-issue

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal northeast of Denver — where the Army once made nerve gas, mustard gas and other chemical weapons — is straining its Superfund budget. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.4/download-entire-issue

Scientists experiment with ways to maintain oxygen in frozen lakes so trout will survive until spring. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.4/download-entire-issue

Larry Wineberg makes the biggest birdhouses in the Pacific Northwest by blowing Douglas firs in half. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.3/download-entire-issue

Of the 11 sites proposed by nine Western states, one near Phoenix, Ariz., and another outside Denver, Colo., advanced to the Department of Energy’s list of eight finalists in the intense national competition for the $6 billion Superconducting Super Collider. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.2/download-entire-issue

Wolves were thought to be extinct in this part of the country, wiped out over a half-century ago by bounty hunters and government trappers. But this year, in southeastern Montana, they’re the center of the talk. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/20.1/download-entire-issue