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After studying nearly 22 million acres of the most rugged, remote and spectacular landscape in the nation, Bureau of Land Management found 1.9 million acres worth preserving as wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.4/download-entire-issue

The debate has heated up in Montana over whether Champion International should be allowed to discharge treated wastewater year-round from its Frenchtown pulp mill into the Clark Fork River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue

The public has lost the only practicable, two-wheel-drive access to Western Colorado’s 75,000-acre Dominguez Wilderness Study Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.3/download-entire-issue

Increased public access to mountain areas has brought increased sport hunting and poaching, which    biologists now realize was heavier at first than many mountain goat populations could withstand. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/18.2/download-entire-issue

Wyoming proposes to build a $49 million dam on the Middle Fork of the Powder River. Downstream, Montana agriculturalists who rely heavily on the river for irrigation worry that the dam will cause their already marginal water to deteriorate further. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.24/download-entire-issue

In Colorado, a garbage dump is proposed next to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.23/download-entire-issue

Far-reaching water negotiations have begun between the state of Idaho and the Shoshone-Bannock tribes over water rights in the Snake River Basin. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.22/download-entire-issue

Residents in 12 counties covering one-third of Utah will vote on whether to back or kill the Bonneville Unit of the multibillion-dollar Central Utah Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.21/download-entire-issue

One of the most controversial areas where special management or national recreation area status is proposed is along the Rocky Mountain Front, a nearly 450,000-acre roadless area adjacent to the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.21/download-entire-issue

The gigantic land swap proposed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management has been buried on Capitol Hill with little chance of being resurrected. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue

Exxon’s construction of one of the largest natural gas processing plants in North America has arrived in southwest Wyoming, bringing with it a mixture of wealth and dismay. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.19/download-entire-issue

Trappers Lake in Northwest Colorado’s Flat Top Wilderness has finally been accorded the distinction it deserves as the birthplace of the wilderness concept. And Arthur Carhart, the concept’s father, has finally been given his due. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.18/download-entire-issue

The Montana Public Service Commission has reversed an aggressive decision it made in 1984 to deny Montana Power Company a rate increase to fund an expansion of its Colstrip coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.17/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken a giant step into the debate over below-cost timber sales in the Rockies and aspen cutting in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.16/download-entire-issue

The Cabin Creek coal-mining project is in British Columbia would excavate open pits about five miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border and just off the North Fork of the Flathead River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue

Only a few short years ago residents of Missoula, Montana, scoffed at the thought that wood-burning stoves and fireplaces — not industry — were the primary cause of the city’s suffocating bouts of winter air pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue

The mechanized world of the late 20th century is intruding in an unexpected way in the wilderness of Grand Canyon National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.13/download-entire-issue

Northern Idaho’s three National Forests plan to build 16,570 miles of new roads over the next 45 years. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.12/download-entire-issue

The recent decline in Idaho’s wood-products industry helps explain why the industry and the Idaho congressional delegation led by Republican Sen. James McClure have fought so fiercely against additional wilderness. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue