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Conservationists arrive in Washington, D.C. to tell Congress what has gone wrong in the nationwide wilderness review of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.13/download-entire-issue

In Steamboat Springs, Colo., a proposed small reservoir was almost defeated by a coalition of ranchers, businessmen and consumer activists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.12/download-entire-issue

According to a recent Government Accounting Office report, the Reagan administration is squandering more than $700 million annually by ignoring efficiency standards designed to control federal government energy consumption. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue

Three members of a grassroots environmental group in south-central Utah were hanged in effigy last month in the town of Escalante. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.11/download-entire-issue

Backcountry workers have long been dissatisfied by the fact that they are on the ground, doing the actual work and dealing with the public, while their status and job security within the Forest Service is low to non-existent. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.10/download-entire-issue

The Great Salt Lake continues to rise inexorably, possibly to a new high in recorded history. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue

Pat Conkle, a former Paonia, Colo. coal miner, has succeeded in forcing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to defend itself before the House Safety and Health Subcommittee. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.9/download-entire-issue

A recently released Bureau of Land Management Draft EIS for wilderness within Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada has sparked controversy. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.6/download-entire-issue

The last remaining herd of caribou in the lower 48 states, in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho,  has been listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.5/download-entire-issue

Three years in the making, Utah’s proposed Wilderness Act of 1984 begins its final battle, in the House of Representatives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/16.4/download-entire-issue

The Linowes Commission, born of Congressional dissatisfaction with Secretary James Watt’s approach to coal leasing, is pushing for changes in laws and procedures that will allow the federal government to make leasing more attractive. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.24/download-entire-issue

Ranchers are standing up to the U.S. Army, which in the 1940s acquired their land to create the White Sands Missile Range, because they feel they were never adequately compensated for the loss of that land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.23/download-entire-issue

The possibility that streams and canals throughout Colorado would be tapped during this decade to generate electricity is floundering, according to speakers at a small-hydro conference. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.22/download-entire-issue

Navajo Tribal Chairman Peterson Zah told the Council of Energy Resource Tribes members here last month that they should not look at energy resources as the answer to all the problems that exist on their reservations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue

Residents of Reserve, New Mexico, are poking holes in a plan that would turn the airspace over their town into a jet training ground. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.21/download-entire-issue

When Colorado’s Indian Peaks Wilderness drastically changed its regulations recently, it did so with the help of a unique band of citizens called the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area Working Group. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.20/download-entire-issue

Three Western communities recently went all out to attract a $75 million Stouffer Corporation factory and its 1200 jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue

An unlikely coalition of railroads and environmentalists have claimed victory over coal slurry interests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.19/download-entire-issue

Wyoming is helping America rid itself of the natural gas bubble. For more than a month now the state has let well owners flare $40,000 to $70,000 worth of natural gas a day. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.17/download-entire-issue