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The rest-rotation method could restore grazing land by working with the regenerative properties of range grasses, but some environmentalists have concerns about the method’s effects on wildlife. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.12/download-entire-issue

The Powder River Basin federal coal lease sale — the largest such sale in history — resulted in the sale of all but two of the 13 tracts offered. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.9/download-entire-issue

Controversy over two western Wyoming timber sales has prompted Gov. Ed Herschler to call for a re-examination of forest management policy on the Bridger-Teton, Shoshone and Big Horn National Forests. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.9/download-entire-issue

Since the beginning of this century, the White Mountain Apache Tribe has been struggling with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Salt River Project over rights to the waters of the Salt River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/14.7/download-entire-issue

A proposed open-pit mine that would produce two million tons of coal a year in Cabin Creek, British Columbia, may pose a serious threat to fish, wildlife, water and air quality in Glacier National Park. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.24/download-entire-issue

The Denver Water Board wages ongoing battles with consumer advocates, environmentalists, and residents of Colorado’s Western Slope. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.23/download-entire-issue

Sheep producers vigorously lobby the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to lift a ban on Compound 1080, which is used to poison predators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.16/download-entire-issue

In a precedent-setting move that has stirred some corporate nerves, the Western Fuels Corp. has agreed to spend at least $15 million to help western Colorado’s Rio Blanco County prepare for a new coal mine. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.15/download-entire-issue

The virtual disappearance of frog and toad species in Wyoming’s Laramie Basin may be caused by mosquito-control used by ranchers. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.12/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Department of Energy and commercial partners want to construct a geothermal well and power plant in New Mexico’s Valle Caldera, an area sacred to the Pueblo Indians and a mecca for tourists and outdoor recreationists. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.7/download-entire-issue

Despite efforts by Idaho’s Public Utilities Commission, the innovative energy source known as cogeneration remains stalled by a complex of financing and regulatory stumbling blocks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.6/download-entire-issue

The Council of Energy Resource Tribes emerged in 1975 with the bravado of a homegrown OPEC, but some tribes are withdrawing as the organization comes under federal scrutiny. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue

Indian tribal leaders recently told a Senate committee that they could do a better job of monitoring oil operations on their lands then the federal government. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.5/download-entire-issue

Energy Transportation Systems Inc. proposes to build a coal-slurry pipeline to transport coal from Wyoming to Louisiana, but the required water is the principal emotional and political hurdle. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.4/download-entire-issue

As Salt Lake City sprawls toward the Kennecott’s Bingham copper mine, issues of air and water pollution are pressed on state regulators. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.3/download-entire-issue

The U.S. Forest Service has recommended opening to oil and gas leasing several Wyoming and Montana areas being considered for wilderness designation, and inserting environmental protections into the leases may be illegal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.2/download-entire-issue

Western tribes with valuable energy resources are considering adopting a comprehensive environmental code, which could lead to court fights over who has the right to regulate development on Indian lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.1/download-entire-issue

A handful of southern Montana ranchers and an East Coast corporation took the first steps in early December toward what may become the country’s largest wind power project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/13.1/download-entire-issue

Controlling growth in the Rocky Mountain West has never been fertile ground for a consensus of opinion. So few people were surprised this week that just as Utah announced a new growth study, Colorado was forced to swallow its control proposals. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.25/download-entire-issue

Two years after its manufacture was banned, and some 18 months since an accidental spill in Montana contaminated foodstuffs in Western states, the carcinogenic insulation fluid known as PCB remains in widespread use, largely unregulated and undisposable. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/12.25/download-entire-issue