The marriage of progress and preservation on the 460,000-acre Mescalero reservation is threatening to crack. Tribal leaders were first in the nation to agree to study temporary storage of high-level radioactive waste from power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.1/download-entire-issue

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