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David Calfee, an Environmental Policy Center lobbyist for the federal land use planning bill that narrowly failed in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1975, gives insight into what caused the effort to falter. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.14/download-entire-issue

In northwestern Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management may have known about fences deadly to antelope and other wildlife but did nothing to correct the problem, an indication of a larger problem across the West. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.13/download-entire-issue

With its New Western Energy Show, Montana-based Alternative Energy Resources Organization spreads the solar and wind gospel — old Western medicine man style. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.12/download-entire-issue

Burgdorf, a historic homestead and now a backcountry hotsprings resort surrounded by the Payette National Forest of central Idaho, is the center of a bitter controversy over a 13-mile road proposed by the Forest Service. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.12/download-entire-issue

Officials in both Wyoming and Colorado have expressed concern that California’s appetite for electricity could expand into their states because of California’s initiative to limit nuclear power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.11/download-entire-issue

The Interior Department is facing off against the Sierra Club and 22 states, who have asked the court to not weaken mechanisms in the National Environmental Policy Act that mandate environmental impact statements for federal projects such as coal development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.10/download-entire-issue

At a conference hosted by Montana-based Alternative Energy Resources Organization, participants were encouraged to start tinkering — to design a home-built solar energy system out of local materials that would suit their particular climate, site, and financial resources. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.8/download-entire-issue

Many residents in the Missouri River Basin of Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota are now being asked to wrestle with a problem that has harassed bureaucrats for years — determining water use priorities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.6/download-entire-issue

The bill upon which many hopes rested for preventing the giant Kaiparowits power plant has been seriously weakened by the Senate Public Works Committee, according to the National Clean Air Coalition. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue

Despite an agreement between Pacific Power and Light Co. and the state of Wyoming, a battle still rages over sulfur dioxide control equipment at the Jim Bridger coal-fired power plant and other polluting facilities. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue

Although coal strip-mined from the Northern Plains is more expensive for Eastern utilities to use, there are several reasons — including recent changes in utility regulations — why these utilities don’t buy local. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.3/download-entire-issue

A summary of trends in the Western states’ land-use regulations, including court actions, energy citing rules, and tax incentives. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.2/download-entire-issue

Indians, environmentalists, and agriculturalists sat down together at a meeting called by the Northern Rockies Action Group in Billings, Montana to discuss their concerns about energy development in the Northern Plains region. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/8.1/download-entire-issue

The Powder River Basin Resource Council, which began in 1973 when 50 ranchers and farmers convened to talk about defending agriculture against coal development, now claims to be the largest and most active conservation group in Wyoming. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.23/download-entire-issue

The interstate shipment of predator poisons may again be halted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after a federal court ruled that the EPA acted lawfully when it banned the shipment of sodium cyanide, strychnine, and 1080 in 1972. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.22/download-entire-issue

While most conservation groups are focused on possible wilderness areas now under formal study, the Wilderness Resources Institute has formed to watchdog over the two-thirds of the nation’s wild roadless areas that are not included in those wilderness studies. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.22/download-entire-issue

Hearings on the Interior Department’s plan to lease public land for the 3,000 megawatt Kaiparowits power plant, which would produce electricity for a consortium of California and Arizona utilities, were held in six Western cities last week. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.19/download-entire-issue

When waterfowl land in the soda ash tailings ponds associated with trona mining near Green River, Wyo., the detergents in the water remove the birds’ natural oils and cause them to sink. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.19/download-entire-issue

An application for a reservoir on scenic Sunlight Creek in northwest Wyoming was rejected by Wyoming’s state engineer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.18/download-entire-issue

The Environmental Impact Statement for the 3,000 megawatt Kaiparowitz coal-fired power plant proposed for Utah’s canyon country describes impacts including degraded air quality in surrounding national parks. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/7.17/download-entire-issue