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The Navajo tribe and Public Service Company of New Mexico have stopped struggling for control over 35,000 acres of coal-rich land south of Farmington. Instead, they’ve begun to negotiate a partnership to jointly develop a power plant there. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.16/download-entire-issue

The Washington Public Power Supply System continued to shudder toward total collapse when formal default was recently declared on $2.25 billion in bonds issued to finance construction of two now-terminated nuclear power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.15/download-entire-issue

Responding to an administrative appeal from three Montana conservation groups, the Forest Service has agreed to block construction of the Bonneville Power Administration’s Colstrip transmission line across western Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.14/download-entire-issue

A draft study on the Powder River Basin prepared for the Wyoming Water Development Commission recommends construction of four new water projects. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.12/download-entire-issue

Senators from Idaho, Washington and Oregon have joined forces to try to head off a massive default on timber sale contracts which some timber industry experts say could wipe out as much as 25 percent of the lumber production capacity in Oregon and Northern California alone. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.10/download-entire-issue

Wilderness is promising to be Idaho’s environmental hot potato this summer as Sen. James McClure prepares a state wilderness bill and the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service continue a series of wilderness plans. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.8/download-entire-issue

The State of Montana and the Bonneville Power Administration seem to have agreed on the route for the final segment of BPA’s twin, 500-kilovolt transmission lines across western Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.6/download-entire-issue

In a recent study prepared for the Bureau of land Management for release to Congress, the National Academy of Sciences found that herds of wild horses competed less with domestic livestock than is widely believed. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.5/download-entire-issue

Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming have succeeded at gaining protection for instream flows. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.1/download-entire-issue

Interior Secretary James Watt announced that 800,000 Bureau of Land Management acres under wilderness study would be withdrawn from study. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/15.1/download-entire-issue

With 40 years’ worth of high-level radioactive wastes still in temporary storage throughout the country, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Nuclear Waste Bill that limits states’ power to veto the selection of a permanent disposal site within their borders. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.24/download-entire-issue

President Reagan announced Monday night that the controversial MX missile would be deployed at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue

The Council of Energy Resource Tribes board has chosen as its new chairman the leader of a tribe that has opposed energy development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.23/download-entire-issue

The last band of mountain caribou in the lower 48 states, in the Selkirk Mountains of northeastern Washington and norther Idaho, are threatened by a timber sale in an area critical to the caribou’s movement between the United States and Canada. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.21/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Senate and House have passed legislation to extend cattle grazing for Utah ranchers into Capitol Reef National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.20/download-entire-issue

Eight conservation groups have filed suit in federal district court in Washington, D.C. to halt implementation of the new federal coal leasing regulations which went into effect August 30. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.19/download-entire-issue

A proposed northern Idaho timber sale, called unacceptable by the state Bureau of Water Quality, has resulted in attempts by the Forest Service and timber industry to rewrite the state water pollution law. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.19/download-entire-issue

Accelerated eutrophication at Wyoming’s Flaming Gorge reservoir has some water experts concerned enough to want a complete study conducted. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.18/download-entire-issue

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bipartisan, compromise legislation banning oil, natural gas and some mineral leasing in wilderness areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.16/download-entire-issue

After initial victory celebrations, Indian tribes with energy resources on their reservations are reeling from the backlash to the Supreme Court’s ruling affirming their right to tax energy production on their lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.13/download-entire-issue