Los Alamos National Laboratory is booming, revitalized by
a new era of weapons development – but the state of New
Mexico wants the lab to clean up its old Cold War-era messes before
it starts making new ones
Magazine
November 24, 2003
Los Alamos National Laboratory is booming, revitalized by a new era of weapons development – but the state of New Mexico wants the lab to clean up its old Cold War-era messes before it starts making new ones. Also in this issue: A 10-year-old plan to build a controversial expressway through Petroglyph National Monument hits a "stop" sign, when Albuquerque voters refuse to pay for it.
Feature
Sidebar
Historian and professor Ferenc Szasz says comics were used
to reassure the public about nuclear issues during the 1940s and
‘50s
Former employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory are
seeking information about and compensation for serious health
problems caused by their work with radiation and other toxic
materials
Editor's Note
Los Alamos National Laboratory needs to be open with the
public about the messes it has made, in order to ensure that the
public health is protected
Essays
Notorious daredevil Evel Knievel is the star of Butte,
Montana’s "Evel Knievel Daze," but not everybody in his
hometown looks up to him
Book Reviews
The Bureau of Land Management is studying the prospects
for developing wind energy on Western public lands
In his book, No Place Distant: Roads and Motorized
Recreation on America’s Public Land, David Havlick looks at
the environmental impacts caused by the roads that crisscross our
national forests, parks, wildlife refuges and BLM lands
In Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Mark
Jerome Walters says that modern "ecodemics" like mad cow disease
and Lyme disease can be blamed on human meddling with
nature
Writers on the Range
President Bush is carrying on a stealthy assault against
our national forests
Heard Around the West
Mountain lion kittens in trouble; Despair, Inc.; escaping
buffalo in Great Falls; high country nudes in Issaquah; and Boo Boo
Blodgett wins the Rez Car Parade
Dear Friends
HCN meets a lot of old friends at the Headwaters
Conference; notes and corrections
News
A 10-year-old plan to build a controversial expressway
through Petroglyph National Monument hits a "stop" sign, when
Albuquerque voters refuse to pay for it
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists in talks with Army
Corps over Missouri River; Wyoming rancher Frank Robbins holds
protest rally; "Volunteer Grazing Permit Buying Act" in Congress;
and Interior ordered to pay tribes $2 million to make up for
drilling
A proposed expansion of Telluride’s mountain airport
could change the Colorado ski town forever, and not all the locals
want that to happen
West Texans are concerned about a planned water deal that
would raise money for the state’s schools, but impact scarce
groundwater, springs and wildlife as far away as Big Bend National
Park
A recent court ruling and a new California law could
curtail stream pollution by the logging industry
A state task force says pollution regulations for coalbed
methane wells are severely under-enforced in Wyoming
Yellowstone National Park’s cutthroat trout, already
threatened by illegally introduced lake trout, are now facing
increasing danger from whirling disease
Local opposition caused a major cheesemaker, Glanbia Inc.,
to build a new cheese plant in Clovis, N.M., rather than expand its
Twin Falls, Idaho, plant– but the Idaho Legislature is making
it harder for citizens to fight against huge dairies
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