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Four environmental groups suffered a defeat when U.S. District Judge Aldon Anderson ruled that Utah’s rugged and beautiful Burr Trail may be widened and improved in Garfield County. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.24/download-entire-issue

Reopening the old Kennecott copper mine in Bingham Canyon outside Salt Lake City was happy news for Utah’s economy. But it is a mixed blessing for Magna, a nearby town that sits next to what is probably the world’s largest mine-tailings pond. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.23/download-entire-issue

How Arizona’s senator became instrumental in limiting air-tour flights over the Grand Canyon and other environmental causes. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.23/download-entire-issue

With the discovery that it may help cure cancer, a long-ignored tree has become the center of a lively debate in the Pacific Northwest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.22/download-entire-issue

The plan would shift marginal agriculture on the northern plains toward an economy based on free-ranging wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.21/download-entire-issue

It may not have been historic, but it was certainly startling to find several directors and staff members of California’s Imperial Irrigation District at a recent meeting with the most knowledgeable water experts, attorneys and even politicians from the upper basin states of the Colorado River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.20/download-entire-issue

To the Nevada Congressional delegation and the Interior Department, a proposed land exchange between the federal government and a defense contractor is a great deal. Nevertheless, opposition is strong. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.19/download-entire-issue

The sheriff was the first to see that a 14-mile section of the North Platte, that high-plains haven for rainbow and brown trout, was strangling. The killer was a spill of more than 90,000 gallons of gasoline that escaped from a ruptured pipeline and bubbled nine miles down a dusty arroyo into the river. Download […]

The nation’s ailing uranium industry is glowing with anticipation now that a federal appeals court has barred the importation of foreign uranium for enrichment in the United States. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.17/download-entire-issue

The Navajo Tribe objects to hearings held by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine tribal courts and freedom of the press on reservations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.17/download-entire-issue

Questions remain about the toxic gases that forced all residents of a Gillette, Wyo., subdivision to flee their homes earlier this year. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.16/download-entire-issue

The Intermountain Power Project, the latest in a series of large power plants in the Southwest that keep California cities lighted, fired up this summer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.16/download-entire-issue

Despite grim times, it appears that reports of the death of Montana’s hardrock mining industry have been greatly exaggerated. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.15/download-entire-issue

Life Link company officials say Jackson’s “California life-style” contributed to an unfavorable work climate. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.14/download-entire-issue

The Naval Air Station outside Fallon, Nev. forces out the last residents of Dixie Valley, an area used for military drills. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.13/download-entire-issue

Arizona’s congressional delegation has agreed to abandon plans for the $316 million Cliff Dam, contested by environmental groups, in exchange for those groups promising not to interfere with completion of the Central Arizona Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.13/download-entire-issue

Although Montana’s conservationists are willing to cooperate with Democratic Rep. Pat Williams, development interests are not. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.12/download-entire-issue

Environmentalists battle residents of the backcountry town of Yellow Pine over a 33-mile route that boarders the South Fork of the Salmon River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.11/download-entire-issue

The Environmental Protection Agency has given a flunking grade to the draft version of a $30 million environmental impact statement on the Denver metropolitan area’s future water supply system. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.10/download-entire-issue

Forest Service employees overstated the number of acres reforested in 1985 in 23 of 39 ranger districts studied, a U.S. Department of Agriculture audit shows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.9/download-entire-issue