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Ten years after the collapse of the Teton Dam, irrigators and city officials in eastern Idaho are beginning a campaign to rebuild it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.8/download-entire-issue

Confronted by a drastic decline in their mineral-based income, lawmakers came to Wyoming’s capital with budget axes in hand. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.7/download-entire-issue

The Reagan administration’s proposed 1988 budget for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation means major changes for water projects in the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.5/download-entire-issue

Six weeks after he said, “I have returned to serve my people,” Navajo Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald shocked many by closing down a newspaper. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.5/download-entire-issue

A bill to prevent further transfer of federal oil-shale lands to private hands was introduced in Congress last month, marking what its co-sponsors say is a renewed effort to end the Reagan administration’s policy of privatizing federal lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.4/download-entire-issue

The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory near Idaho Falls is preparing for its first major nuclear weapons project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue

After more than five years of tug-of-war in the courts and the Montana Legislature, the battle over recreational access to rivers and streams appears to be settled. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue

The Louisiana-Pacific Corp. has mounted a controversial media campaign to win public support for increased timber sales in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue

The Northwest’s energy surplus is the latest battleground in the decades-long trench warfare between salmon and steelhead advocates and the Bonneville Power Administration. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.2/download-entire-issue

In one of the more contested timber sales last year, 20 people were arrested while demonstrating against the logging of 63 acres near Detroit, Ore. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.1/download-entire-issue

It’s 10 inches thick, weighs 12 pounds and will do just about anything you want it to. That malleability, according to observers, is the major weakness of the 1,800-page proposed plan for western Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.23/download-entire-issue

Mark Story, a hydrologist for the San Juan National Forest, monitors acid rain and snow high in Colorado’s mountains as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.22/download-entire-issue

Since 1979, the Little Bighorn River and its Dry Fork tributary have been the center of a debate between dam proponents and preservationists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.17/download-entire-issue

A Grand Canyon National Park superintendent spent much of this summer sifting advice from the public on how to reduce noise from airplanes and helicopters flying in the 1,900-square mile park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.16/download-entire-issue

Energy Fuels Nuclear has filed two new proposals for mining in Cataract (Havasu) Canyon. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.15/download-entire-issue

A high-altitude standoff over construction of a national forest road gave the impression to some that a Pinedale District Ranger took orders from Louisiana-Pacific rather than from his own higher-ups in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.13/download-entire-issue

When 64-year-old Donna Spainhower of West Yellowstone, Mont., began feeding a wayward buffalo that wandered out of Yellowstone Park last October, she may have become the only American with a pet buffalo. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.12/download-entire-issue

Hit with rising unemployment and a potential $60 million budget shortfall, Montana faces another economic setback from the state’s only railroad. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.10/download-entire-issue

It’s difficult to find a Western city where the fight between developers and controlled growth advocates is not a central issue in local politics. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.7/download-entire-issue

Industry, environmentalists, university and Forest Service representatives met in Spokane, Wash., to hash out arguments for and against below-cost timber sales. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.5/download-entire-issue